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Democrats’ tactics frighten

By Jim Wooten | Monday, October 13, 2008, 07:04 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Just as certain as the dog days of August or the arrival of September’s harvest moon, the staple of every election cycle arrives at our doorstep. It’s called: Scare the ignorant.

Frighten the fragile while concocting another fantasy for the conspiracy-minded that those mean old Republicans want to rob social security, spoil the rich and erect barriers to keep black voters, the most loyal of the Democratic constituencies, from the polling places.

This is why appeals to the inattentive are so effective. Just as the immigration fight was never about legal entry, the issue with voter identification is not suppression of legally-qualified voters. It’s suppression of fraudulent voting — as in illegal votes that steal the votes of those who play by society’s rules.

In 11 battleground states, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN), an organization long associated with Barack Obama, is being investigated for fraudulent activities for submitting phony voter registration applications. The first 2,100 of 5,000 applications they submitted in the Indiana county where Gary is located were bogus. “All the signatures looked exactly the same,” said one election official. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”

In the Indianapolis area, 105 percent of the adult population has been registered to vote.

Meanwhile here in Georgia, Secretary of State Karen Handel, a Republican, is being vilified by activist Democrats for her efforts to guarantee that the election is honest, that the people who vote are indeed legally eligible. It’s legal vs. illegal. It has nothing in the world to do with voter suppression — and, frankly, the partisans of the left know that.

The left always has wanted same-day registration and voting because it serves their political interest. The problem with running a bus down the street on Election Day is that you pick ineligible felons and those who have been too lazy to register and are, furthermore, too disengaged with the world beyond Jerry Springer to have a clue about the issues or the candidates.

If it’s possible just to round them up, hand them the voting card and drop them off at the polls, the left’s version of democracy would be a whole lot easier to effect.

The problem, however, is that a majority of Americans recognizes the perils of that approach.

Handel took a beating from Democratic partisans because she insisted in honoring the Voter ID law, just as she has taken a beating from some of them for her insistence on verifying the eligibility of submitted applications.

She was sued last week by a group seeking to halt the state’s efforts to verify the citizenship of registered voters when there’s a question — as, for example, a new citizen who previously was identified on driver’s license records as a non-citizen. It’s the routine of honest government. No hidden agendas. No conspiracies.

The suing group contended that efforts to verify the eligibility of those who previously had declared themselves not to be citizens required pre-clearance under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

“We didn’t come up with that on our own,” she said. It’s required under the Help Americans Vote Act. “It is federal law. I don’t think the Department of Justice gets to pre-clear Congress. We’re doing precisely what the federal law tells us to do.”

The reality is that there are groups, like ACORN, determined to gum up the works or to slip ineligibles past the verification process.

There’s a full-scale effort on to intimidate Handel by representing legitimate verification as suppression and by accusing her, in advance, of responsibility for any Election Day glitches if everybody who shows up is not voted, eligible or not.

She is not intimidated — nor should she be. For any election you want to have a safeguard in place, she says. Once upon a time, nobody would have disagreed with such a common-sense assertion.

Ah, but then, once upon a less-partisan time nobody would have disagreed with Voter ID, either.

But since the left’s effort to scare the old folks on Social Security is not around this cycle, it’s scaring minorities, trying to frighten them to the polls.

It’s not about voter suppression or Voter ID. It’s about voter turnout.

Until they get same-day registration and voting for all adults, fright is the way the left wins elections.

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By Shawny

October 14, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

More ACORN nuts….

No ID, no vote. Why can’t we universally adopt this policy? We know the answer… and it isn’t about the poor or elderly.

On another note, yes, they are all crooked. Let’s see how much traction this one gets in the press vs. the toe tapper.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 14, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I do believe the WSJ editors sneaked a peek at Jim’s essay when he posted last night, as their lead editorial this morning goes the same direction; either that or Jim is the most clever industrial spy of our age. (In an unrelated editorial, I note that WSJ calls out our local race-baiter, the once-respected John Lewis.)

Crooked elections are a grand tradition in this country, whether we talk about the first Mayor Daley’s amazing “production” to tip Illinois to JFK or Al Gore’s attempts in Florida, first to quash military votes, then the temporarily successful effort to get a leftist state Supreme Court to overrule the popular vote with selective “recounting.”

In his four-part series last week my hero, Dr. Thomas Sowell, catalogues a list of sins of the current democrat candidate, summarizing:

“Barack Obama’s supporters often try to sidestep questions about his character and judgment by saying that we should stick to what they arbitrarily define as “the real issues.” But Senator Obama’s record on specific issues is as bad as his record of repeatedly allying himself over the years with people who make no attempt to hide their hatred of America.” And Dr. Sowell provides many examples, both of the record and of the political alliances, as one can well imagine. Continuing this week (part five this morning) Dr. Sowell writes:

*“In words, Obama is a uniter instead of a divider. In deeds, he has spent years promoting polarization. That is what a “community organizer” does, creating a sense of grievance, envy and resentment, in order to mobilize political action to get more of the taxpayers’ money or to force banks to lend to people they don’t consider good risks, as the community organizing group ACORN did.”

“After Barack Obama moved beyond the role of a community organizer, he promoted the same polarization in his other roles.” * The seemingly-illegal activities in Indiana and Ohio this year are not the first time ACORN has been so-implicated. Missouri (specifically the Kansas City area) in the last election cycle, and arguably Washington state, were also places where the vote was corrupted by ACORN activities. Fortunately Georgia has a state photo-id requirement for voting; unfortunately most states controlled by leftists do not.

Lest there be any doubt, the ACORN goal is not to win an honest election, just to take control, to facilitate the kleptocracy. The Obamaniacs, as tolerant souls, freely forgive the excesses of ACORN. So we have just another leftist Chicago-style politician, one with long ties to a quasi-criminal organization, which sole raison d’être is to manufacture leftist votes, for the sake of plunder. Change you (or Hugo Chavez) can believe in.

By TW

October 14, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten - please look up the word ‘hypocrite.’

By Bob

October 14, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

‘too disengaged with the world beyond Jerry Springer to have a clue about the issues’. Sounds like you are referring to Gov. Palin

By GOPs got to go

October 14, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

Wow Jim, Republicans appear terrified that Democrats have managed to beat them at their own tactics. Sorry but the “scare” factor has been your party’s mode for decades. That was the only way the cretin Bush was able to get re-elected in 2004. Watch out!!! They are coming again!!!! Only Dubya can keep you and yours safe!! All Those Democrats do is raise your taxes, We give you rebates!!! Only one big fat problem Jim, we have learned from our mistakes and upped the ante for you. Never again will we be “Swift Boated”. Progressives use the Internet, something your elderly candidate can not comprehend.

That lovely video posted by Bookman showed your terrified masses. It was so very “Springer-like” too. That Blonde definitely needed her children’s DNA checked.

Did you happen to watch the documentary on Nixon last night? It was fascinating to watch how the GOP Machine was born under him. How he used innuendo and un-truths to smear his opponents. Even went so far as to print lies about his opponent on “Pink” paper to insinuate that she was a commie; now that would probably mean they are for Gay Marriage. Palin’s abusive rhetoric is back firing on the GOP. I do applaud McCain for correcting that old lady for saying Obama is Muslim, he showed some of the old McCain. Too little too late though.

So keep whining and sweating about your candidates losing the election. You know how to do it, if you need any pointers just imagine the Democrats chagrin about those “hanging chads” in Florida. We are through with you “scare” bullsh!t. After all, what’s the worst that can happen? For us it is the Palin “God’s Mission” Presidency.

You are kind of reminding me of this little kid at the pool who wanted to race my daughter in swimming. When he lost he started hollering “NO FAIR, I PAUSED” McCain paused and Obama came off the blocks like Michael Phelps, no pause factor and very fair.

By Reaity Check

October 14, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Mr Wooton:

2 million request to verify. 2 MILLION!!! The numbers were so out of line with the rest of the country, that the justice department called for an inquiry. You say she was just doing what her job calls for but the Justice Dept. says different. The right, while not everyone feels this way, would love to minamize minority turnout just as like they want to limit those who benifit from other govt. assisteance ( i.e. the 700 million bailout). Please don’t insult us with the implication that there has never been reason to be concerned about voter suppresion. That would be a lie and you know it. Express your politics, but don’t be a liar.

By Pierce Randall

October 14, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

The reason the “left” is against the voter ID bill is that it will cause more legitimate voters to not vote than it will stop instances of voter fraud. The answer from the right is that, well, tough, those citizens aren’t worth anything anyway if they can’t get IDs; do we really want the homeless or those who don’t have the iniative or intelligence to get an ID to vote? Well, that’s a nasty, divisive attitude supporting a nasty, divise country. That’s Wooten and Handel’s version of democracy.

Also, what’s really frightening is the effort to check 2 million voters against Social Security polls — twice what the next worst state in that regard, Alabama, has attempted, and bad enough that the Social Security administration files legal challenge against Handel. 200,000 voters have already been purged. There’s no way, the Social Security administration is telling us, that so many people died or moved. Yes, that’s extremely scary in a state that still requires approval from a Federal court when it changes election policy, due to the Voting Rights Act and a history of flat-out racism elections.

By Peter

October 14, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Black Reporter Removed From Covering McCain

Mario Tama Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks during a press conference in February 2008. Getty Images

News & Notes , August 6, 2008 · A newspaper reporter recently became the subject of news when he was thrown out of the press area during a rally for Sen. John McCain.

Stephen Price of the Tallahassee Democrat was one of several reporters covering McCain’s stop-over in Panama City, Florida last Friday.

But Price was the only African-American reporter in the press corps that day when McCain’s security team singled him out and asked him to leave.

Now, many are asking if race played a role in his removal.

Funny I heard the interview on NPR, and it seemed in the END……ONLY Stephen Price, and the female reporter who spoke up was tossed.

REPUBLICANS are BIGOTS !

By Pierce Randall

October 14, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

Well, that’s a nasty, divisive attitude supporting a nasty, divise country.

should have read

Well, that’s a nasty, divisive attitude supporting a nasty, divise policy.

Call it a leftist Freudian slip if you would like. I maintain I overheard someone’s conversation in the cubicle next door, and typed the wrong word.

By cws

October 14, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

WOOTEN, get your head out of your a* and see the real truth. The election of 2004 was stolen on republican lies and the last eight years have been nothing but one lie after the other. Boy do you drink the kool-aid!!!

By No How No Way No McCain

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

“…fright is the way the left wins elections” … That’s rich, Wootie Woot. Pot, meet kettle. Fear tactics are the Republican mantra.

By Steven d.

October 14, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

This from a guy who supports the party of Karl Rove, Ed Rollins and Lee Atwater tactics. Yea, I know Atwater is dead.

By D Right One

October 14, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Typical Repug rhetoric. Getting your behinds kicked like the Browns vs the Giants last nght. Now the GOP is complaining about everything from voter registration cards to who sits on a board with you. Mr wooten, investigate AJC’s Board to see who associates with who on the Board, where they live in relation with each other, and how often they associate. Probably can’t do it by actual facts only by inference.

McCain has had 26 years to do something. He’s had his chance. Obama wants what is fair and right for this country. Nothing from the GOP but trickle down. I’m tired of getting p*ssed on by you bunch of old farts.

By Independents for Obama

October 14, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Eye for an eye, you right wing yokels are all up in arms when the democrats are just playing your game. See Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004. The popular vote does not decide the presidential outcome anyway, Jim you and I both know that the electoral college does. And dont feed me that B.S. line that the electoral college votes along the same lines as the popular vote, because in 2000 that did not happen.

By Timothy SASSCER

October 14, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Jim, I don’t think you meant that those who have been ” too lazy to register and are, furthermore, too disengaged with the world beyond Jerry Springer to have a clue about the issues or the candidates are not eligible to vote” as that would eliminate both legitimate voters (laziness about registering is not a disqualification from ones right and responsibility to vote) and Ms. Palin’s supporters (Obama is a Muslim/pals around with terrorists/little human connection to global warming/drilling is our best idea for energy independence, etc). There is a recent photo of Mr. McCain attending an ACORN event. and there is a host of examples of prominent McCain surrogates attending ACORN events, signing ACORN legislation, or complimenting the group’s efforts.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist recently declared that – contrary to GOP outrage — he was not upset with the group’s voter registration efforts in his state. The New York Times reported that ACORN supported a law signed by Governor Crist, which “changed the rules last year to restore the voting rights of about 112,000 former convicts.” Still, Republicans regularly argue that the group engages in questionable voter registration practices and pointing to the group’s activities as a reason for concern about voter fraud. In just the past few weeks, even before the latest wave of registration-fraud allegations, conservatives cited ACORN as one reason for opposing the initial bailout plan in the House, asserting that one provision of the bailout package would have steered money toward housing-related organizations such as ACORN. There have been a number of widely reported discrepancies amongst ACORN volunteers which should be investigated and corrected. The vast majority, however, seem to be doing something for the greater good of Americans. No charges have been brought against the group itself. A brief research foray would turn up many similar charges of Republican shenanigans of questionable intent and morality, not to mention legality. No one has forgotten the 2000 election, or the shameful legacy of Lee Atwater and his still-practiced antics. ACORN, to be fair, is known for supporting Democratic candidates, and employing a confrontational political style that has often put it at odds with conservative leaders. But there needs to be much more substance than just parroting party talking points. That’s not thinking right.

By Churchill's Mom

October 14, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Jim, why no Paline today?? Are you 1 of those left wingers? Here’s the lowdown on Levi, soon to be proud pop..

WASILLA, Alaska - Levi Johnston, who’s having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter, can’t believe all the things he’s hearing.

No, he wasn’t held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he’s not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-year-old Bristol Palin.

“None of that’s true,” Johnston, 18, said. “We both love each other. We both want to marry each other.”

He agreed to talk despite the John McCain campaign’s advice following Gov. Palin’s nomination to avoid the media.

“They’re not telling me anything right now,” Johnston said. “It’s pretty chill.”

Johnston says he quickly embraced the prospect of fatherhood. The baby is due Dec. 18. Johnston has dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician.

He hinted he’s expecting a boy.

“I’m looking forward to having him,” he said. “I’m going to take him hunting and fishing.”

The Wasilla heartthrob said he wanted to set the record straight. For starters, he said his much-maligned MySpace page - the one that said, “I’m a … redneck,” and “I don’t want kids” - was a joke. Johnston said his friends created the page a few years ago, and he had nothing to do with it.

Johnston said he has dated Bristol since his freshman year.

“We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid,” he said.

Johnston said Bristol invited him on the campaign trail, and he jumped at the chance.

“At first, I was nervous,” he said. “Then I was like, ‘Whatever.’ ”

Johnston didn’t register in time to vote, according to the Mat-Su Division of Elections Office in Wasilla. But he’s rooting for McCain and Gov. Palin.

“I just hope she wins,” he said. “She’s my future mother-in-law. She better win.”

By ron

October 14, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Good morning,As you know,I don’t agree with voter i.d.,to the point where I no longer vote.As far as I’m concerned,voting has become a useless process in the U.S. T

By Mackey Sasser

October 14, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

World and domestic financial markets are recovering, which will give a significant boost to John McCain.

By Get Real

October 14, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Every morning Bush comes out and talks about the economy, the market tanks. Please tell him to shut up. Also, the government is buying equity shares in banks now; up to a 20% stake. Republicans so hate a socialist government, but its happening under a republican. Go figure!

By hillbilly ragger

October 14, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Your ongoing fear of the “wrong people” voting speaks volumes about conservatives’ collective moral bankruptcy.

Any column dealing with “voter fraud” that never bothers to mention the Bush Justice Department’s utter failure, after seven years and millions of dollars spent, to uncover legitimate cases of “voter fraud,” is just pathetic. Kinda like the Republican brand. Kinda like the Palin/McCain ticket. You really want to be on that team, Jim?

By Tall

October 14, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Did Cynthia Tucker read this editorial?

By DC

October 14, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Explain why Handel is ‘purging’ legitimate voters from the rolls only because they haven’t voted in 4 years? You’re such a liar and hypocrite Wooten

By The Anti-Wooten

October 14, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

This is truly much ado about nothing. While I have no doubt that some of those that were doing registrations for bonuses existed and abused that system, NONE of those duplicates have actually voted.

Let’s make some comparisons to tactics used by Republics in recent history. Caging has been a policy even in states where Republics were prosecuted for it, they felt the advantage was too great not to risk it. Lying to young college voters, telling them that their scholarships and loans were at risk if they registered and voted. Tim Griffin, he and Karl Rove should be sharing cells with guys named Bubba in Alabama and Arkansas. Purging voters from state rolls for the horrible crime of having the same name as a convicted felon in said state. Republic Secretaries of State failing to provide adequate voting apparatus in districts that might vote Democratic preferences. Well, you get the idea. I’m sure that Ragnar and Dusty will be along shortly to tell us that “oh but it’s ok when Republic’s do it” but the truth is that it’s not ok when anyone does it. To say that Democrat’s are the sole problem here is part of what’s been wrong in this country for some time now.

Jim Wooten, you’d climb a tree to lie rather than stand on solid ground and tell the truth. I want to make it clear to all of my friend on the left. Don’t stop working, don’t get cocky, don’t let up and don’t relax because the Republics are still looking for anything they can seize upon to steal this election. Rebut them at every turn, don’t let them get away with even one smarmy dishonest thing.

By Frost

October 14, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Let’s see how much traction this one gets in the press vs. the toe tapper maybe Jim should take ur advice be4 running to print.Looks like this is the only positive thing coming outa Archain camp.He decides he will unveil a new economic policy on Monday,but Obama beats him to it and the news cycle. PATHETIC

By @@

October 14, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

If I may Jim, I’m going to view this through a different lens. ACORN and the democratic party have no respect for democracy or the people they exploit to gain “power to the party”.

As Americans watch those admitting to multiple registrations, they see scam artists and deadbeats. Do the democrats care?

Hell no!

You said the left’s version of democracy would be a whole lot easier to effect.

Easy targets, and dems have no qualms about seeing them paraded on T.V. night after night.

The democratic party — promoting racism one black face at a time. African Americans should be outraged that their party has organizations such as ACORN exploiting their race as a “village of idiots”.

They (democrats) have no shame.

By Copyleft

October 14, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

A little project going on today, I see.

Wooten whines about the Democrats relying on scare tactics, when that’s all the fascist right has left in their own bag of tricks!

Just look around for wild, raving loony declarations from the typically irrational fascists… “Obama’s a secret Muslim!” “Socialist!” “If Obama’s elected, this country is doomed! DOOMED, I say!”

It’s the pathetic desperation tactics of simpleminded tools who’ve lost their grip on America, but don’t know any other way to communicate.

The fascist mind is truly an inferior brand, incapable of basic logic and reason. Their anti-American agenda worked for awhile after 9/11 (to our demonstrated detriment), but now that it’s not working they have no idea what to do next.

Intelligent liberalism will always triumph over knee-jerk, hysterical fascist thinking in the end.

By Ga Values

October 14, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

I guess I should be happy that the treasury Dept. has given up on the reverse auction. Below is the most important part of the stock purchase agreement. As they say “the Devil is in the detail” but no real details were released. I am still opposed to the $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout but this is a much better way to go than the son of RTC that was originally proposed. I still wonder how a $197,000,000.00 tax break for Puerto Rico will help our economy but it is as they say SAXBY ECONOMICS

The government will invest $125 billion in the nine banks, and then it will make another $125 billion available to the 8,500 smaller banks, which can choose whether to participate. Banks that accept the investments — as the big nine must — will issue to the government preferred shares of stock, meaning that the shares will pay annual interest. That has the effect of immediately reducing the value of existing shares and of limiting the companies’ future profits, by directing some of their revenues to the government.

The preferred shares also are designed to encourage companies to repay the government within three years. During the first three years, companies will pay 5 percent interest on the government’s investment. After that, if the companies do not repurchase the preferred shares, the annual interest rate climbs to 10 percent.

The government will not run the companies. Its investment varies case by case: Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase will receive $25 billion each; Bank of America and Wells Fargo, $20 billion; Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, $10 billion, Bank of New York and State Street $2 billion to 3 billion. Wells Fargo will get an additional $5 billion, for its purchase of Wachovia, and Bank of America gets the same for Merrill Lynch.

By doningeorgia

October 14, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

So many of the people using this system have so little respect for their fellow citizens. So you don’t agree… please keep you “hate speech” to yourself. Say, go into the john and rant and rave there. Just because you disagree does not give you the right to dump on someone else that has a different viewpoint. Keep it civil. You’re not God and He will prove it to you soon. Jim, you are doing a fine job…keep it up!

By Georgia Boy

October 14, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

The Right tries to suppress the vote every chance they get because it serves THEIR purpose.

By Analchord

October 14, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Palin 08: Little ACORNS into Oakleys grow. (annie oakley, that is)

By Jerry Royster

October 14, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

World and domestic financial markets are recovering, which will give a significant boost to John McCain. Obama’s biggest lever for fear mongering has been stripped from his hand.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 14, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

There are seven or eight [seats in danger],” a top Republican said of the upper chamber. “What’s it going to be a week from now?” Party officials see GOP Senate seats at risk in North Carolina, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, Alaska, Oregon and Georgia.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14549_Page2.html

By I love Hockey Grandmoms

October 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

When and where is the shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school dropout baby daddy taking place? I want to buy them a wedding gift. Well, if I can afford to buy one. This Bush economy has everyone suffering.

By David

October 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, you have a lot of gall talking about Democratic election tactics right now. Your GOP has masterminded the art of fear tactics since 9/11.

With some of the quotes taken from the blogs here along with the televised comments of voters at McCain/Palin rallies, I would venture to say that your party perpetuates as much if not more ignorance than the Democrats ever could.

By I love Hockey Grandmoms

October 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

When and where is the shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school dropout baby daddy taking place? I want to buy them a wedding gift. Well, if I can afford to buy one. This Bush economy has everyone suffering.

By I love Hockey Grandmoms

October 14, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

When and where is the shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school dropout baby daddy taking place? I want to buy them a wedding gift. Well, if I can afford to buy one. This Bush economy has everyone suffering.

By charles lewis

October 14, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

This is the most intellectually dishonest and deceptive argument I have ever read. Palin and McCain call Obama a “readical” with “terrorist pals” so some of their low-information supporters think he is a an Arab Muslim, but it is Obama playing the fright card. Wow, and he is allowed to enlighten us on reality.

By Frost

October 14, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/14556

Its not looking good out there for John Archain I understand and I sympathize!!!But im more with the voters,the middle class,who are really hurting more because of George Bush wackonomics.

By lazermike

October 14, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Two quick questions:

  • What’s wrong with same-day registrations? This is the second time Jim has mentioned it. If whatever verification technology that is necessary exists, why should people have to pre-register to vote?

  • Jerry Springer? Really?

    • By Frost

    October 14, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

    shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school dropout baby daddy

    HAHA HAHA HAHA,U FUUUUUUNNNNNYYYY!!!

    By ron

    October 14, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

    Again this morning my message was sent while I was still typing it.Aren’t computers wonderful things?

    The election process in the U.S. needs monitoring by the United Nations,exactly the same as a third world country.We are no more honest in our elections than they are in Zimbabwe.If there is wide spread voter fraud as suspected,then it’s high time something drastic was done about it.

    Ga.Values——-I like what’s happening to the heads of the taken over banks in the U.K. No more job for the big shots.The top two from the RBS are gone.No bonus for any bankers this year at least.More heads to roll.I suppose it would be too much to hope for that we will follow suit.I want my pound of flesh,see.I really do.

    By zeke

    October 14, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

    NO I.D. NO VOTE!

    HEALTHY-NO WORK, NO EAT!

    MORE THAN ONE OUT OF MARRIAGE CHILD-NO WELFARE!

    UNDER 25- NO VOTE FOR HOUSE OF REPS, GOVERNOR OR OTHER STATE AND LOCAL OFFICES!

    UNDER 30- NO VOTE FOR SENATE!

    UNDER 35- NO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT!

    UNDER 21- NO DRIVE, NO DRINK, NO SMOKE UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE MILITARY, AND, ON BASE!

    NO FELONS, NO ILLEGALS, NO ONE WHO CANNOT READ, WRITE or COMPREHEND THE ISSUES SHALL BE ABLE TO VOTE!

    THOSE WHO RECIEVE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS, WHATEVER PROGRAM THEY ARE FROM, CANNOT VOTE ON ANY MEASURE TO RAISE TAXES OR INCREASE THOSE PROGRAMS!

    THE INCOME TAX MUST BE ELIMINATED IN FAVOR OF A CONSTITUTIONALLY LIMITED CONSUMPTION OR “FAIR TAX” WITH THE GOVERNMENT FORCED TO OPERATE WITH NO DEFICIT, NO SO CALLED LOCK BOX WHERE THEY RAPE THE TAXPAYERS BY SPENDING THE MONEY UNDER THE FALSE NOTION THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE IT GOOD LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY!

    By Jeff

    October 14, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

    This column is a joke right? Bush/Cheney and the neo-cons have done nothing but promote fear as the basis for their agenda.

    Fear of non-existent WMDs was the reason for war in Iraq.

    Fear of terrorism was the basis for the Patriot Act, which now learned was used to spy on American Soldiers.

    And the latest Bush based fear program was the government bailout of Wall St. If we didn’t go along with his plan, the world would end.

    Spare me the idea that the Dems can only win by fear. The Bush/Cheney Republicans have received at least four years of government checks by promoting fear.

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

    I get a kick out of the brainwashed Obama posters here……..

    You all know what ACORN is doing, and you condone it.

    You all know Obama is friends with dvisive people like Rev. Wright and Father Flager and you embrace it. Furthermore you have the gall to insiuate John McCain and Sarah Palin are racist when the people playing racist are John Lewis with his grandstanding, and Obama for not comming out as McCain did and denouncing his stupid comments.

    You all know Obama is friends the most unpatriotic couple in America. Mr. & Mrs. William Ayers committed treason against this country and you all condone this.

    I say you condone this because all you do is ignore the truth, try to deflect it, and when convenient break out the “Bush” card when the “race” card cannot work. All the while claiming to be dealing with the issues.

    The bottom line is this……… If Obama gets elected, he will get there because those who vote for him are willing to compromise whatever ethics they have. if they really understand, I mean “really understand” the issues. They will be willing to ignore the lack of an Obama track record…….

    Obama claims he wrote a letter to Sec. Paulson about the potential economic crisis back in 2005 or 2006….. Big deal….

    Did he actually write it, or was it a staffer? If he was so concerned the way to show that concern is to write “legislation” not a letter. This would have improved his “track record”, and proved that he understood he was in Washington to actually do something.

    Obama bloggers here though are willing to look past all this. They try to degenerate to insulting bloggers with opposing points of view as quickly as they can. How sad.

    If the Obama bloggers here put as much time into their careers (if they have one yet) as they do into flooding these blogs with their rhetoric, they would be making money hand over fist, and would be hating the idea thatthe naive Obama would want to tax the living hell out of them to fund halfbaked community organizer centric Federal agenda.

    Brainwashed, and accepting of any scam(racial smearing, ACORN, smoke and mirrors) that achieves an Obama Presidency… Obama Supporterss

    Good article Mr. Wooten Keep it up! McCain/Palin 2008

    By Davo

    October 14, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

    JW thinks your stupid.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

    The most freightening thing about the ajc is that they would put the face of an IDIOT on this web page blather….a grinning baboon of an idiot at that. The GOP is the party of SCARE tatics, as they have demonstrated repeatedly over the last decade plus. The arabs are coming, the muslims are coming, the terrorists are coming, so vote for George the fool Bush, that was their whole claim to fame. Meanwhile, the real terrorists were sitting in Washington policy offices, in NY York corner offices, and yes, at your local bank or mortgage company, lying, cheating and stealing. Do you want to know what thieves they really are? Lehman Brothers wrote some 760 billion dollars in derivatives contracts, and obtain collatoral to cover those contracts from the counter parties, including about 30% in excess collatoral. Lehman then used that excess collatoral as their own money, pledging the collatoral as many as three times over on other deals. Prior to bankruptcy, Lehman refused to return any excess collatoral upon on request by the counter party, just saying NO, and nothing else. Ask Jefferson County Alabama about what kind of thieves the people at Lehman were in their dealings with the county. Now all that excess collatoral has disappeared, reportedly much of it into the hands of JP Morgan, but they are not returning any of it to its rightful owners. Republicans are indeed liars, thieves, and when push comes to shove, COWARDS. Just fer fun, beat the nearest republican senseless today….

    By reader110

    October 14, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

    Just as certain as the dog days of August or the arrival of September’s harvest moon, the staple of every election cycle arrives at our doorstep. It’s called: Scare the ignorant.

    Frighten the fragile while concocting another fantasy for the conspiracy-minded that those mean old Democrats want to raise taxes, spoil the poor and let black voters, the most loyal of the Democratic constituencies, into the polling places.

    This is why appeals to the inattentive are so effective. Just as the Iraq war was about ensuring our access to oil, the issue with voter identification is about suppression of legally-qualified voters. It’s suppression of the legal right to vote — as in enabling legal votes that will guarantee a Democratic victory.

    In 11 battleground states, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN, an organization long associated with Barack Obama, is being demonized for submitting too many voter registration applications. The first 2,100 of 5,000 applications they submitted in the Indiana county where Gary is located was where Republicans staged their attack. “All the signatures looked exactly the same,” said one Republican supporter. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”

    In the Indianapolis area, Republicans are claiming that 105 percent of the adult population has been registered to vote.

    Meanwhile here in Georgia, Secretary of State Karen Handel, a Republican, is being exposed by activist Democrats for her efforts to suppress minority votes despite the fact that the people who registered are indeed legally eligible. It’s not legal vs. illegal. It has everything to do with voter suppression — and, frankly, the partisans of the right know that.

    The left always has wanted same-day registration and voting because it serves the American interest. The claim that running a bus down the street on Election Day ensures that you pick ineligible felons and those who have been too lazy to register is simply more Republican fear-mongering.

    If it’s possible just to round them up, hand them the voting card and drop them off at the polls, the Constitutional version of democracy would be a whole lot easier to effect.

    The problem, however, is that a majority of Republicans recognizes the perils of that approach.

    Handel took a beating from Democratic partisans because she insisted in that the Voter ID law is merely a way to keep from ineligible voters from being eligible to vote, claiming that there was no way to verify the eligibility of submitted applications.

    She was sued last week by a group seeking to protect the rights of newly registered voters. She seized upon the possibility that there is a question when a new citizen, who previously was identified on driver’s license records as a non-citizen, is now registering to vote. Such a claim is not part of the routine of honest government; it’s in support of the hidden agenda of the right to keep minorities away from the polls on election day.

    The suing group maintained that efforts to question the eligibility of those who previously had declared themselves not to be citizens was simply a way to suppress the rights of minority voters.

    “We didn’t come up with that on our own,” she claimed. It’s required under the Help Americans Vote Act and Republicans need to take advantage of any opportunity to suppress Democratic votes. “It is federal law. I don’t think the Department of Justice gets to pre-clear Congress. We’re doing precisely what the federal law tells us to do.”

    The reality is that there are groups, like the far right wing, determined to gum up the works to delay new registrants long enough that the verification process will drag on and on until after Election day.

    There’s a full-scale effort on to intimidate voters and Handel, by putting into question legitimate verification, should claim responsibility in advance for any Election Day glitches when everybody who shows up newly registered is robbed of their right to vote, eligible or not.

    She is not intimidated — although she should be. For any election you want to have a safeguard in place, she says. Once upon a time, that may have been a common-sense assertion. The right wing, however, has made that assertion questionable after eight years of lies to the American people and the probability of a landslide loss for the Republican Party.

    Ah, but then, once upon a less-partisan time nobody would have supported the Voter ID law, either.

    But today we have the right’s effort to scare the old folks and minorities, trying to frighten them away from polls.

    It’s not about voter Voter ID. It’s suppression to ensure a lower voter turnout.

    Until we get same-day registration and voting for all adults, fright is the way the right wins elections.

    By LoFlyer

    October 14, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

    I will be civil against the leftist posters here, I do not expect the same in return. My challenge to the lefties is to be civil in this exchange of ideas. Let’s run over some of the issues that have come to light recently in the main stream press, that has been common knowledge for several years to the conservative blogging community. Bill Ayers is a close confidant of Obama. The MSM and lefties can claim no guilt by association, but it does indicate faulty judgment and a socialist, anti-capitalist agenda that is being hidden by Obama and his MSM enablers. Make no mistake, Bill Ayers and Obama are true brothers in arms. Bill Ayers standing on an American flag would indicate that Ayers despises his country that has given him so much and forgiven him for killing seven innocent humans. Reverend Wright, two years ago I visited the church’s web site and it was obviously afro-centric and racially devisive. The fact that the Church’s web page was deleted and a new one installed after the Wright scandal would indicate the Church or Obama’s campaign felt uncomfortable with the blatant racism of the site, along with Wright’s public rhetoric. ACORN’s massive voter fraud, busing homeless to the polls for one stop registration and voting. And Democrat opposition to reasonable laws preventing voter fraud, and the ACLU’s suit against Georgia are all designed to make fraudulent vote easier. As Jim so succinctly put it, this is not about “disenfranchisement” of one or two legal voters without ID’s, this is about easy access to fraudulent votes. The fact that the ACLU is behind the Georgia suit lends credence to the idea that issue is about socialist control of the votes. (When was the last time the ACLU was not opposed to capitalism and western Democratic ideals?) Recent history, the Missouri scandal involving the St. Louis DA and local Sheriff’s, at the instigation of the Obama campaign publicly stating they would bring criminal charges against anyone not advertising “truthful” (in their eyes) statement abouts the chosen one reeks of tactics of the old Soviets and the new Russians led by Putin. These are not the tactics of classic western democracies but of communists. Obama’s and the socialists (I refuse to call the Democrat party Democrat any more. Let’s be honest here.) Socialist support of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and ACORN’s drive to provide good loans to bad risks put a lot of Americans in homes they could not afford and are the direct cause of the financial crises we are in today. John McCain tried to stop this several years back with his bill to reign in the FM & FM, but was blocked by the socialists. The socialist media refuses to print one word about this was all caused by the socialists while McCain and Republicans were doing their best to prevent it. The socialists welcomed the financial meltdown, whilst the Republicans were doing everything they could to stop it. What party is acting in the best interests of Americans? It’s certainly not the socialists. In short Obama has much to hide, no middle class American, including blacks, who has been successful under democracy and capitalism can possibly vote for a committed socialist no matter how much they lie and claim they have the best interests of the average American at heart. The socialists only interest is in getting power and suppressing opposition. This not Democracy, that is communism.

    By Thespis

    October 14, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

    Wow Zeke,

    It’s guys like you that make me happy I live in America where we can be protected from your kind.

    By deegee

    October 14, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

    Scare the ignorant is the advice JW gave the McChange campaign yesterday. It works for them as long as their sheeple don’t repeat their words back to them. The Wootang gang is as erratic as McChange. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s message.

    By Pat

    October 14, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

    Chants of racism from John Lewis and others is only the beginning of the attack on free speech under the Obama/Pelosi/Reid unholy triumverate. Obamaniacs, it’s not too late to change your mind. If you value free speech, free markets, and the right to keep what you earn, you should vote for McCain.

    http://www.cafepress.com/NObamaforPres http://www.cafepress.com/BarryFableGuy

    By JLK

    October 14, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

    Nice job, Reader110!

    Mr. Wooten, don’t feel too badly! It’s only natural for a bully to become frightened when the skinny kid he beat up for lunch money for years starts to get taller, bulk up, and stand his ground. On second thought, yes, maybe you should start to tremble a bit. Heh.

    By Shawny

    October 14, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

    Nice piece from David Brooks of the NYT today. It talks of the impending return of Big Government in an Obama administration, and how the ‘rookie’ will not be able to influence and redirect his own party, particularly as he has shown that he doesn’t do that.

    “When you add it all up, we’re not talking about a deficit that is 5 percent of G.D.P., but something much, much, much larger.”

    Do you REALLY think that 95% are getting tax cuts in an Obama administration with a democratic congress? Man, please…

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

    After President Obama takes office, a federal grand jury will indite Ms. HandlesDogPoop on Federal corruption charges…she will serve 20 years to life in a federal prison, imho. Her efforts to deny citizens of their right to vote is a criminal act and she has been fairly warned by the Federal authorities to stop her illegal acts. Prison is her future….

    By Richard

    October 14, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

    Do you think Sarah Palin will read this in the AJC?

    By Locke

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

    I’m still trying to figure out how Obama is going to give a tax cut to 95% of filers when one-third don’t pay any income tax at all.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

    Sarah doesn’t read…she has tutors who read aloud to her. Ah just luv it when the stinking repukes are gitting the crap beat out of them and they start demanding “civility.” No, the beating will continue….unabated….

    By Ga Values

    October 14, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

    ron 9:37 AM

    W was just on the radio & it looks like No Heads will roll. Sounds like we are going to be passive investors. We are SXCREWED until we get a new President. Hopefully McCain but that doesn’t look possible right now.

    By Trailer Park Palin

    October 14, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

    When and where is the shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school dropout baby daddy taking place? I want to buy them a wedding gift. Well, if I can afford to buy one. This Bush economy has everyone suffering.

    By Shrugging Atlas

    October 14, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

    Jim, grab your sack and be a man. You’re frightened? Welcome to the club, we’ve been frightened for eight years. Not to beat a dead horse, but this is the pot calling the kettle black. You complaining that the Dems are using fear, but we learned it from watching you dad. What a joke you and your party have become. The contrived threat level meter. Need to strike a little fear in the country, let’s just raise that up to red. Need to calm everyone, lets bring it down to yellow. What a joke. Jim, I’m really not sure how you continue to do it, but you lose more credibility with every pitiful article.

    By now we know

    October 14, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

    the dems want federal mandates on everything from what we eat to how much of our hard earned dollars they can steal so why not federally mandate voter id laws?

    it hampers their drive to get out and buy a vote for a dollar and a smoke.

    By LoFlyer

    October 14, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

    RRCrooks, Provide links for your accusations! Stand and deliver!

    By hillbilly ragger

    October 14, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

    MikeB @ 9.42, how drunk on Gooper-Aid do you have to be to compose a post with so many provably false assertions?

    Probably my favorite is this:

    “You all know Obama is friends the most unpatriotic couple in America. Mr. & Mrs. William Ayers committed treason against this country and you all condone this.”

    Aside from who among us has “condoned” Ayers’ Weather Underground activity, can you cite the treason conviction against Ayers that we all seem to have missed?

    All I’m able to find about Ayers is that, after he’d turned himself in c. 1980, the federal government had so botched its domestic surveillance programs, using unconstitutional methods to gather evidence, that they had no case to bring and the charges were dropped.

    This guy, who sits on boards sponsored by Republicans, and his Mrs., are your “most unpatriotic couple” in America?

    Really?

    By JLK

    October 14, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

    Shawny, “return of big government?” Really? Since the last eight years have seen the biggest expansion of the Federal Government in the history of the United States, to the bigges size ever and the biggest deficit spending ever, and the enactment of edicts expanding the POWERS of the government to whittle away habeus corpus, privacy rights, and even the powers of the Vice President, I wonder what you mean by “return of?” Did it go on vacation for three hours and I missed it?

    By Hockey GILF

    October 14, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

    When and where is the shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school dropout baby daddy taking place? I want to buy them a wedding gift. Well, if I can afford to buy one. This Bush economy has everyone suffering.

    By getalife

    October 14, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

    Another hilarious bit by Jim.

    w promised socialism for the rich will be temporary.

    The market is a no lose gamble and love those odds.

    Buy, buy, buy.

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

    The scary thing here today is the crazy amount of liberal bloggers who absolutely approve of illegal activity, breaking voter laws, their own bigotry, false accusations, intimidation, ignoring or approving past subversive activities of their presidential candidate and trying to curtail free speech of people with whom they disagree.

    THEY PROVE THAT THIS EDITORIAL IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Jim Wooten has “hit the nail on the head”. What an American travesty he describes!

    Americans with the greatest freedom in the world want to treat it with corruption, lies and lawbreaking.

    Democrats are chipping away at the innate vision of the”Statue of Liberty” in America. It is quite obvious that they want it to fall. They have a “new” way, a change, which destroys the old way of our Constitution.

    That travesty becomes more and more obvious each day. Read the posts here and believe it.

    By Hockey GILF

    October 14, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

    When and where is the shot-gun wedding of Sarah Palin’s knocked up teen daughter and her high-school-dropout baby daddy taking place? I want to buy them a wedding gift. Well, if I can afford to buy one. This Bush economy has everyone suffering.

    By Copyleft

    October 14, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

    LoFlyer: Sure, I’ll be civil.

    You just posted a long, rambling list of opinions without any basis in fact. You clearly hate the Democratic Party and anyone associated with them; that’s fine.

    However, that doesn’t make your opinion more meaningful or more intelligent. Silly claims that you present as proven truths discredit both you and your cause.

    Try again.

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

    hillbilly ragger,10;25

    Now you are complimenting a couple that, by their own confessions, bombed the NYC Police Department, the Pentagon and the capitol. In later years, William Ayers said he wished he could have done more.

    Why don’t you read a little more about Willima Ayers and his good friend Obama for whom he secured positions on foundation boards. Don’t take anybody’s word for it. Read from documented sources which are not info from Democratic Headquarters.

    By Jim is a caveman

    October 14, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

    WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Mommy, the Democrats are scaring us. There’s a monster under my bed. I need a glass of water. That shadow looks like Frankenstein. That shadow is trying to register to vote, and he can’t vote, can he, Mommy? Please don’t let that bad man vote, that scares me. Oh, and by the way, Mommy, that other guy is Muslim who hangs around with terrorists and is going to take all your money and turn us all into Communists. Phil Gramm was right. You are all a bunch of whiners. Charles Lewis, you must be new on the blog. Jim has written much more intellectually dishonest columns in the past, and I’m sure more are to come in the next three weeks, as the anxiety and panic and shrillness increase from the right. You’d be surprised just how intellectually dishonest Jim can be.

    By Grandma Palin

    October 14, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

    When will Palin admit that her infant son is actually her grandson? When will she admit the truth? She’s a terrible liar and a fraud.

    By Grandma Palin

    October 14, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

    When will Palin admit that her infant son is actually her grandson? When will she admit the truth? She’s a terrible liar and a fraud.

    By Peter

    October 14, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

    Dusty….You are a total Joke……….

    The WAR in Iraq and the demise of the economy, has all happened under BUSH, and the REPUBLICAN lead Administration…….

    We ARE currently in a RECESSION…..Thank you George Bush !

    By AH

    October 14, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

    Why did she only request 2 Million it should have been every registered citizen in the state of Georgia.

    By AmVet

    October 14, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

    As a non-Democrat and an anti-Republican (sorry, neo-cons, you brought in on yourselves), I believe voter integrity is critical.

    Between the voting machines themselves with the inherent problems therein and shenanigans by both major political parties’ machines, there is some room for concern.

    But really, is this what the righteous hullabaloo is all about?

    I think not.

    I think this is what says it all: …pick ineligible felons and those who have been too lazy to register and are, furthermore, too disengaged with the world beyond Jerry Springer to have a clue about the issues or the candidates

    These “felons” that our yellow journalist refers to are, in reality, not yet convicted but awaiting trial and have not ceded their right to suffrage. To the neo-cons who don’t really value blind justice or the US Constitution that much, they are apparently presumed guilty.

    And as for the clueless voter?

    Live with Bush apologists. Your legions of them got us in this current clusterf&ck…

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

    Mr. Wooten “Democrats’ tactics frighten”!

    REALLY?

    You must jest….

    This is an art that the republicans have thrived on for years.

    Do you recall Willie Horton? Jesse Helms? The color scheme scam? Obama HUSSEIN OSAMA? Voter suppresion? I could go on, but, your column is nothing more of the same Orwellian double speak.

    Much like Sarah Palin claiming that she has been vindicated in the “TROOPERGATE” mess she abetted in, and who actually violated state ethics law!

    I guess in your mind War is peace. Black is white. Up is down.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

    LoIQFlier: Do your own homework…oh, you are a retarded repuke…well, just this one time I will offer a little help….10/20/2008 print edition of BusinessWeek magazine, pages 34 and 35…you will have to do the reading yourself, I know, a burden for an illiterate thief like you….the online edition no doubt has a copy of this article too, but you may have to pay for access….I have access, but I don’t share…

    By bearcasey

    October 14, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

    The real Republican mantra: “I’ve got mine, “screw you.”

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

    Jim is sooo scared, he has resumed wetting the bed at night…phew, ya kin still smell it on him at work the next day…

    By Copyleft

    October 14, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

    Say, I just realized…

    I haven’t heard any more calls to privatize Social Security into the stock market lately! I wonder what happened to that idea?

    By The Devil You Say

    October 14, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

    Wooten - you hit the nail on the head with this one. The Demoncrats have always played on fear to win elections. It started with Andy Jackson. He campaigned against the evil Bank of the United States and he won. He then killed the bank, plunging this nation into the worst economic depression since independence. He also played on racial hatred (remember the Trail of Tears), and he was the originator of the ‘class warfare’ card in American politics, even though, he, like so many present day Demoncrats (Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Jay Rockefeller, Diane Feinstein …) was among the uberrich of his day.

    Now they are out trying to win another election by hook or by crook. It is no wonder that they pull this kind of fraud on a regular basis and then scream that someone is having his rights violated. Demoncrats have always believed in voting early and often. They feed on ignorance as well as fraud, as Wooten so brilliantly pointed out. They play the race card, the class card, the food-stamp card and then when caught they claim that the waskly wepublicans are just trying to hurt the ‘poor’ and downtrodden.

    The fact is that only four Democrats in our history have won a majority of the popular vote: Jackson, FDR, Johson and Carter - and the latter by the thinnest of margines. They know that they cannot win fairly, so they steel. Let’s not let them do it again.

    By K_chub

    October 14, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

    Jim is a Caveman,

    I can’t believe you actually used the word intellecutal and Jim in the same sentence. Wooten is a typical right wing idiot. He is doing exactly what the Republican playbook says to do during a campaign. He knows it is in fact Republican tactics that are aimed at scaring and distracting Americans into voting against Obama and the Democrats. So he is doing what Republicans always do - he is trying to convince voters that it is the Democats who are triyng to scare voters. This is what right wingers always do and it’s a last ditch attempt to avoid the Democratic landslide that will happen on election day.

    Message to Republicans - what worked in 2000 and 2004 ain’t gonna work in 2008. Your tired wornout ideology is what’s on the ballot this year and Americans are going reject you in a landslide.

    To Jim Wooten,

    Just try to have an original idea for once in your career. Just once think for yourself and don’t paraphrase daily GOP talking points. Go ahead I dare you to think….I double dog dare you!

    By SaveOurRepublic

    October 14, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

    Both sides of the Globalist Elite controlled coin (DNC & GOP) use “fear tactics”, as it’s effective on the lesser & uninformed. The Marxist shell/Globalist core DNC utilize faux “populace”/quasi-socialist tactics, whereas the Neocon shell/Globalist core GOP uses bogus “terrorist threat” & (legitimate) tax increase as their mantra of fear. What most sheeple continue to miss is the fact that the GOP & DNC (so-called) “leadership” are indeed *two sides of the same coin”!!!

    By ekubec

    October 14, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

    I love this tactic!

    Whatever troubles or slimy tactics the GOP is having or using, just change ‘GOP’ to ‘The Left.’

    Fear tactics? Are you kidding me? In a race where McCain runs 100% of ads that say:

    “You don’t know Barack Obama.”

    Where Palin says “He Pals around with Terrorists.”

    Where countless McCain supporters at rallies express both ignorance and fear: “I am afraid if Barack wins because he is an Arab.”

    And you accuse the left of using fear tactics?

    By ACORN and the GOP

    October 14, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

    ACORN: McCain And GOP Used To Be Supporters

    On Monday, the Democratic-leaning group ACORN, which has been painted as a criminal enterprise by the GOP for its voter registration and housing policy efforts, pushed back against its critics by producing a photo of John McCain attending its March 2006 rally.

    It was a reminder that, for all their electoral histrionics, Republicans have aligned themselves with ACORN in the past.

    Indeed, in addition to the McCain photo, there is a host of examples of prominent McCain surrogates attending ACORN events, signing ACORN legislation, or complimenting the group’s efforts.

    Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, for example, partnered with ACORN in March 2008 for a “Homeownership Promotes The Economy” taskforce. More recently, Crist declared that — contrary to GOP outrage — he was not upset with the group’s voter registration efforts in his state. The New York Times reported that ACORN supported a law signed by Governor Crist, which “changed the rules last year to restore the voting rights of about 112,000 former convicts.”

    In July 2005, meanwhile, another Republican governor, Rick Perry of Texas, signed ACORN’s Lending Law Reform Bill that changed the state’s homelending practices.

    In July 2008, California Governor and McCain supporter Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that ACORN helped draft aimed at California homeowners facing foreclosure.

    In June 2007, Minnesota Governor and McCain VP short-lister Tim Pawlenty signed a similar bill — drafted by ACORN — that helped homeowners get fairer deals on their mortgages.

    “The legislation was drafted according to recommendations made by a predatory lending study group established by Swanson prior to the legislative session,” wrote the Northwestern Financial Review. “The study group contained representatives from the banking industry and the mortgage brokers association, as well as consumer advocates from organizations such as Illegal Aid and ACORN.”

    As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed an anti-predatory lending bill that ACORN supported. In February 2006, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman met with the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association. And back in July 2005, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg actually got a kiss from ACORN’s state leader, according to the publication City Limits, during an announcement that the city would protect or create 65,000 affordable units in a new housing proposal. Bloomberg, it should be noted, has not endorsed a candidate.

    It would be, in a normal political context, highly unremarkable that Republican and Independent officials would praise and work with a group as large and influential as ACORN. But in recent days, it seems, Republicans and the McCain campaign are keen on painting the community-organizing group as something inherently corrupt. The primary target of complaint has been the organization’s voter registration efforts, which have led to numerous non-existent individuals being put on the rolls.

    Recently the McCain campaign went farther, releasing a web advertisement that linked Barack Obama to ACORN, and blamed the group for helping instigate the crisis in the nation’s housing market — itself a contributor to the financial mess.

    ACORN “bull[ied] banks” and engaged in “intimidation tactics,” says the ad. “ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans. The same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we’re in today.”

    ACORN has insisted, in the wake of these and other attacks, that it has been firm in its advocacy for regulations to “protect homeowners from predatory lenders.” And certainly, they have a handful of prominent Republican officials who, at one point in time, agreed.

    By Harry S.

    October 14, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

    Jim Wooten throws out another red herring to distract attention from the catastrophic collapse of the rethuglican party!

    PLEASE LIST ANY RESENT ARRESTS FOR IN PERSON VOTER FRAUD IN GEORGIA, JUST IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, NO NEED TO GO BACK ANY FURTHER.

    None in GA? How about any arrests in the whole country? No arrests, no problem! We have new laws to stop a problem that never existed. Typical republican fix, they broke something that was working fine. What if the bush administration had fixed Social Security? How would you like to have Social Security in privatized Wall Street investments now?

    Voter suppression is the goal of all these phony republican voter laws. The GOP goal is to intimidate and harass traditional Democratic voters, minorities, the elderly, poor and working people in general. They hope longer lines will discourage voters now and for years to come. They really want to suppress all voting, keep the turnout down to the elites and GOP party activists. Why else would they hire poll workers who have never seen a computer?

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

    Well, it is very obvious who the Demo TARGET is for today. SARAH PALIN’S TEEN AGE DAUGHTER!!

    Look at Grndma Palin (10:44)and Hockey GILF@ (10:36). These cute characters think it is so smart to attack the children of a candidate and make false accusations about their mother. YES SIR, ATTACK THE CHILDREN!! That’s from our fine Democrats who display their “character” on this blog.

    By BSD

    October 14, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

    @ Hockey GILF How many times are you going to post a silly and off-topic post today? Take the money you would spend on a baby gift and buy some intellect.

    By Redneck Convert

    October 14, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

    Oh me! All the polls show this Obama beating old man McCain like a rented mule. If this keeps up we will have one of Those People in the White House and we can kiss our Fambly Values good bye. The little stems will get killed for research and libruls will get named judges and they will take out after us GA rednecks. All that is more scary than anything the librul Democrats do during the campaign.

    Leastwise, this Handel is trying to do something about it. Having every voter in GA checked by Social Security. The more she can knock off of the rolls the better it will be for good conservatives. It will be a big suprize to alot of people when they show up to vote and learn they can’t. It’s good she’s doing her job. I seen a picture of her golf swing in a paper and she’s alot better off sticking to her job duties. It looks like she’s getting ready to swat a fly.

    Anyhow, I’m moving my cement vault to a place where this Pelousy woman can’t never find it. Jbmlaw and AJC commie got their offshore accounts and I got my cement vault. They won’t get a plug nickel from us.

    Everybody needs to pray that old man McCain comes up with a picture of Obama and Osama and a sheep in bed together before election day. It looks like that’s the only way he can win now. God done let us godly conservatives down.

    Have a good day everybody.

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

    Peter 10:45

    Yesterday you were getting rich buying stocks at a low price.

    Today you are in a RECESSION!

    Make up your mind.

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

    The Devil You Say @ 10:55 AM

    You say “The fact is that only four Democrats in our history have won a majority of the popular vote: Jackson, FDR, Johson and Carter.”

    Am I missing something here? My recollection is that Al Gore had over 500,000 more popular votes then the current MORON in chief!

    By getalife

    October 14, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

    McCain proposes his new economic plan for the debate tonight.

    Tax cuts for the rich. Stay the course wth failed w policies.

    Obama’s plan is much better for the people.

    Game over.

    By The Devil You Say

    October 14, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

    Dusty - you got it right. I won’t even go into why it is such nonsense to accuse Palin’s daughter of having had her son Trig and then come out with the fact that she is 5 months pregnant when Trig is only four months old!!! All I see on this blog in reply to what Wooten or any other conservative has written or said are personal attacks - no subtance at all. Would you folks like to try to defend your indefensible Socialist ideals with some facts and evidence? I think not. You don’t have any that it will ever work.

    By GayGrayGeek

    October 14, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

    After 8 years of Republican’t-generated FUD, now we see not only Hypocrisy In Action but the fact that the word PROJECTION is now spelled **R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-‘-T”.

    Jim, you senile old fool. Your own party has sown the seed of Fear and Fright for 8 years. And now they’ve come home to roost.

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

    By getalife

    October 14, 2008 11:08 AM

    GETALIFE..A friendly reminder…The DEBATE is tomorrow night (WEDNESDAY)!

    By EQUAL TIME ELECTION 2008

    October 14, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

    HEY JIM WOOTEN - GIVE EQUAL TIME TO AN ARTICLE ON REPUBLICAN’S TACTICS FRIGHTEN! TWO MILLION SSN CHECKS WITHIN 90 DAYS OF ELECTION 2008 BY GEORGIA’S SECRETARY OF STATE HANDEL IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT (SUSPICIOUS). IT IS THE SAME OLD GOP/RIGHT WING SMOKE SCREEN FOR THEIR VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS.

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

    I see the Liberal doltish, half wits are at it again today. Just when will they see the light of Dubya and know that McCain/Palin are the only way to go? Anyone who disagrees with me and my blessed Dubya are just plain old ignorant. I have no use for those Non-Americans that do not believe what I believe, no, what I KNOW to be true. That Dubya is the second coming of the Lord and I will soon be raptured to heaven. Oh there have been many signs of it. My Preacher has told me about the Anti Christ Muslim Socialist (Obama). And that darling girl Sarah, she knows it to. I do think that she may be able to stop the whole Liberal Leaning Un-American, Un-Christian party on her won, well she may only have to suggest what to do, but the GOP will understand. I am hearing the voices which call out the way.

    I just had a great thought! I am going to get a New American Girl doll to add to my collection. The “Sarah” doll. Oh that will be such fun! I can get my “Sarah” and I matching outfits to dress up in. Do they make them in size 40?

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

    ACORN & GOP @11:00

    The organization ACORN on paper sounds very good. The American principle of letting every legal citizen vote by free choice. ACORN would help them.

    Unfortunately, ACORN took that principle and turned it into a law breaking effort to any and every person to be on voter records whether they were legal or illegal. Workers used every crooked methods including numerous registrations for single voters to permit voting many times. They paid people to register. ACORN workers signed phony registrations on many occasions. They preyed on poor and ignorant people whom they thought were most likely to vote for Democrats.

    When caught in their illegalities, ACORN proclaimed everything from discrimination to ignorance but were found guilty on several occasions.

    Yes, there were many people of caring concern who though that ACORN was the organization of hope for many people. Only later did the illegal tactics come to light.

    Ayers more or less “ran” ACORN. He brought Obama into the organization. It would be almost impossible for them not to know the tactics being used.

    ACORN is no longer considered an operation with ethics.

    By Country First

    October 14, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

    Obama is a con man. He sat in Rev. Wright hate filled church fo 20 years and lie about knowing the Rev.’s hatefilled messages. Hung around Ayers for years and lie about knowing Ayers past. Now the ACORN connection. Is this going to be the Democrats version of what they accused the Bush administration of for the last 8 years. Corruption, lies, and deceit.

    By Republicans R Crooks

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

    Sahah is already a voodoo doll on three continents….

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

    ID THIEF @ 11:19

    Another Democratic tactic..

    By sarah

    October 14, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

    Doggone it…

    The first dude and I are going to have a baby naming contest

    You bethcha…we’ve already come up with a few, but we would like your help.

    How’s the name AMMO CLIP sound? NO!

    How’s about… Springfield? You know as in a 30 ought 6 rifle!

    Yamaha? husky? wolfs paw? Igloo?

    Well darn it, I go to a kid’s soccer game on Saturday, and nobody can help me!

    So I’m asking all of you Joe Six Pack’s, and hockey moms across the nation to help in naming the little Bas*ard!

    By Shante

    October 14, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

    If Obama Supporters were even moderately intelligent, they would be Condoleezza Rice Supporters.

    DUH!

    By getalife

    October 14, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

    Yeah, them dems are scary

    Pitiful.

    By Butch Gaddy

    October 14, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

    Republicans are supressing the vote and are bigots. Where did we Republicans go wrong? Let’s see….this means the Dems and media really think Acorn is out there doing their civic duty as community organizers, registering voters…only once. That’s why the FBI investigation. Yep, those FBI guys are bigots too. God help us if Obama and his Socialist, Marxist friends and views control the White House. Have some more Kool-Aid. Cheez!!!!

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

    Shante, we are both smart and vengenful….you will pay for your comments….dearly…

    By Churchill's Mom

    October 14, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

    Guilt by association: (1) Obama and Ayers, (2) McCain and Bush

    By Amy in the ATL

    October 14, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

    Wow, a lot of whining coming out of the GOP these days. Honestly, y’all should stop worrying about those “mean Democrats” (LOL, by the way) and start trying to figure out how we as a nation are going to begin to recover from 8 horrible years of Bush. We’ve racked up trillions in debt with NADA to show for it, our economy is in shambles, and we’re stuck in a war which we shouldn’t have gotten into in the first place. So if you want to cry about it, fine, but then come back to the table and start working with the Democrats on how we’re going to get this country going again. Attacks on Obama, the “left wing liberal media,” and all your other silly little catchphrases are not helping anyone. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, and start apologizing profusely to all those under the age of 18 who will spend their entire lives paying for your folly. Grow up!

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

    Dear Sarah @11:37

    I have a better idea. Let’s give new names to all the libs who “prevaricate” on this blog.

    Let’s see: Demo Doofus, Loser Liar, ACORN Nut, Ayers Admirer, Dethuglicrat, LibBaloons, Inita Change, Connie Vick, DemBo,GeekieGoner, etc.

    Now come up with some good ones, I’ll be back later to read them.

    By getalife

    October 14, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

    Oh, I see why Jim is scared.

    Lets take a look at the inside trading today:

    “Obama could win 364 electoral votes, traders say:

    Barack Obama is likely to pick up 364 Electoral College votes, far surpassing the 270 needed to claim the presidency, by winning battleground states including Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and Colorado, online traders say.”

    Thumpin.

    Jim, John said it is okay and nothing to be scared of.

    By bill maher

    October 14, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

    New Rule: You can’t be president if you practice a violent Middle Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god. Which is why Sarah Palin can’t be president.

    if there was a video of Barack Obama standing in front of his congregation being healed by a black witch doctor, this election would be over. But there is that video of Sarah Palin.

    So, ask your witch doctor if exorcism is right for you.

    BILL MAHER..

    By Butch Gaddy

    October 14, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

    Guilt by association: Obama and Acorn, Obama and Aires, Obama and Rev, Wright, Obams and Rezco. What say you now Mrs. Churchhill? Don’t look much further into Obamas background. His Socialist/Marxist views and past will jump out at you. But why should you care….when you just want change… and a check. God Bless America and God Bless us all if Obama is elected.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

    Dear Amy in the ATL, I agree with you, but I still want to punish wooten and dusty and all their ilk for being wh ores to the neocons….

    By glenn129

    October 14, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

    If the ACORN and democrats destroy the our Republican government by taking away the faith in the voting system they have doomed the Constitution. All is left is a rule by military, and all of the liberals and their democratic friends should be wary because the military of this country is conservative. To avoid this you should make sure all of us believe the system of voting is fair.

    By sarah

    October 14, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

    Dusty,

    By golly you must be a soccer mom, or perhaps a Cindy six packer…

    Such clever names, but I’d rather speak to naming Bristol’s little bun in the basket (so to speak)

    I’ve got a Track, a trig, a whatsit, a gizmo and a who knows what!

    C’mon people…The first dude and I are gonna personnaly take you polar bear hunting in a helicopter….So much fun!

    By DebM

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

    Well, isn’t this precious? The Republicans crying foul over the supposed scare tactics of the Democrats. Once again, the hypocrisy of the Republicans leaves me stunned and almost speechless.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

    Bristol - There is a cure for pregnancy….

    By Southern Democrat

    October 14, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

    Let me say upfront that I am as certain as a man can be about another man that Mr. Wooten is not racist, but I have to take this opportunity to remind him of the subtleties and coded language regarding voting that those of us who grew up in Georgia witnessed. The default of a democratic society must be to count every vote. There simply cannot be barriers put up to disenfranchise. When Mr. Wooten writes:

    She is not intimidated — nor should she be. For any election you want to have a safeguard in place, she says. Once upon a time, nobody would have disagreed with such a common-sense assertion…

    I shudder at memories of state troopers and police officers at polling places in black neighborhoods for “safety” — a very intimidating sight. The “safeguards” put in place were, to not put too fine a point on it, to safely guard against black votes. And by the way, please understand that BOTH parties were guilty of scare tactics in Georgia.

    I agree that there must be a basic system to determine whether someone is a citizen and eligiblie to vote, and I know that that is what Mr. Wooten advocates, but the constant cross-referencing and proactive challenging of voters is too much. It is intimidation and sets Georgians back.

    By ButtHead

    October 14, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

    You lefties make me laugh; ACORN is nothing but a scam because the left is so scared of the right. LOL Prove you’re a citizen to vote, why does that offend the left? Are they scared that they would lose the entire illegal alien vote? RLOL The excuse that I hear is that they don’t want a “National Database” of American citizens. Well lefties guess what will happen with socialized medicine? LOL The far left and the far right are living proof the God has a sense of humor.

    By AGTFan

    October 14, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

    I notice no one has mentioned John McCain’s long association with ACORN. If Obama’s association with ACORN somehow makes him suspect, doesn’t McCain’s association do the same thing. Another example of the right wing mainstream media and their selective reporting.

    By Peter Principle

    October 14, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

    “All is left is a rule by military, and all of the liberals and their democratic friends should be wary because the military of this country is conservative. To avoid this you should make sure all of us believe the system of voting is fair.”

    Ah yes: the Pinochet option. I was wondering when the fascist right would starting muttering about that.

    Sorry guys — you live in the wrong country. The vast majority of the officers of the US military are men of honor and will follow their oath to obey and protect the Constitution of the United States.

    And if a few lunatics don’t … well we still have the death penalty for treason in this country.

    By DJ

    October 14, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

    Republicans don’t have JACK $#IT to say about voting irregularities. You’ve got to be kidding. Feel free to whine about it for the next four years, as if that’s the reason your pathetic excuse for a ticket got stomped on Nov. 4th.

    One question for Jim and all you right wing apologists: is there ever anything that is frightening about Republican tactics? Could you please give a few examples? or can you please explain why Republican tactics are always so ‘up front’ and ‘voter friendly’??

    Your boy is going down. Hard. In fact, your whole party is about to get it’s a## handed to it and you will whine and spin and make every excuse in the world except the correct one:

    AMERICA IS TIRED OF REPUBLICANS PUSHING THE EXACT SAME AGENDA FOR 28 YEARS. WE WANT SOME OTHER OPTIONS AND THE REPUBLICANS DON’T HAVE THEM (talk about a lack of new ideas - wow), SO WE ARE WILLING TO LOOK ELSEWHERE. BUH-BUY NOW, AND TAKE YOUR LITTLE DOG LIBERMAN WITH YOU.

    By Tess

    October 14, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

    Obama Supporters frighten me, especially when they come up to me on the streets of Atlanta and ‘AXE” me for some free money.

    By Peter

    October 14, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

    Hey………….”By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this Peter 10:45 Yesterday you were getting rich buying stocks at a low price. Today you are in a RECESSION! Make up your mind. “

    Gee Dusty…………………… I understand you are not in touch with the current situation……

    YES we are in a Recession……….why don’t you follow someone like “Clark Howard”……. He has said this is a WONDERFUL time to buy……..If you actually have the cash, and can hold for the longer term…….

    Short term who knows……BUT all knows the Stock Market loves a Democrat in the “White House”……

    Buy now Dusty………!!!!!!!!!

    Your cheating, Lying, self absorbed, and Non ethical Sarah Palin…….. is taking the REPUBLICAN ticket DOWN !

    By Ted Striker

    October 14, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

    I don’t give a sh!t what you think, Mr. Wooten. I’m just here to say “I thought the AJC was getting rid of you.”

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

    Good Golly Miss Molly…

    Anyone see the Moron in Chief speaking on the economy this morning?

    This idiot staggers out looking as if he has just survived an airplane crash!

    And what do we hear…same ol, same ol!

    Anyone who votes republican ought to bend over and say wow the last 8 years have been great, give it to me again!

    http://www.c-span.org/

    By Algonquin J. Calhoun

    October 14, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

    The tactics of the left bother you but I don’t think you’re very disturbed by the theft of the last two elections by the Republinazis. The Democrats don’t have to steal the election Jim. They just have to keep the Republinazis from purloining as they normally do.

    By peerless fauxdick

    October 14, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

    That’s a very disrespectful way to refer to your president. I hope you are ashamed of yourself. But then again your face is a schlong magnet.

    By Black Independents for Obama

    October 14, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

    By LoFlyer October 14, 2008 10:03 AM

    @ LoFlyer I’m going to point out two major flaws in your argument, first off you called “Obama and Ayers brothers in arms”, that was cute to say the least, then you pointed to the alleged voter registration fraud by ACORN. You say that Ayers killed 7 people? Not in the least LoFlyer, the organization he founded did carry out bombings in the last 60’s and 70’s but no one was ever killed in those bombings, the worst that happened was when he blew up the Haymarket Statue in downtown Chicago, and the debris fell onto the Kennedy Expressway causing a severe traffic jam. No one was killed, no was injured, stop getting your information from Fox News; they are far from credible as far as journalism goes. Some (two not seven) of his own supporters did die however in the early 70’s in New York when the pipe bomb they were assembling blew up and caught them on fire, but as far as anyone dying from a bomb that Ayers placed is just another Sean Hannity fairy tale. Ayers was just a radical hippie who went too far, as I’m sure a number of you were also back in those days, not justifying what Ayers did by any means; but to call him a terrorist is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention that the work he has done/ is doing in the inner city of Chicago with public schools and the homeless far surpasses any harm he caused in the turbulent 60’s and early 70’s. Chicago’s public schools in the 1980’s made the Atlanta public school of today system look like a New England private school, now they are not perfect, but much better, in part to the work Ayers has done. Bush and Cheney because of their policies and lies have killed far, far more people than 7, but I bet you think that the Iraq War was justified huh? Now onto ACORN, how can you call it voter fraud when the elections have not even been held? It’s only voter fraud if people fraudulently cast ballots under other people’s names, or uses that fraudulent information to prevent people from voting. The simple fact that the election is three weeks away would prevent anything that ACORN is currently doing as being classified as “voter fraud”; you could perhaps call it voter registration fraud, but voter fraud? Hardly, voter fraud is what the Republicans did in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004; but I digress because that’s missing the larger point. Even if ACORN registers 8 million people fraudulently, it won’t matter because those people will never cast ballots, you know why? Because they don’t exist!!! I currently live in Atlanta but I was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana; right in across the state line from Chicago (the home of Ayers and the regional hub of ACORN)and 5 miles west of Gary, Indiana, the town in question in Wooten’s article above. In Indiana you must present a state issued ID to cast a ballot, so unless the state govt. of Indiana issues 5,000 ID’s of the same individual, its highly improbable that those 5,000 ballots will be cast. LoFlyer you intelligence is apparent in your post, but the simple fact that you and others with your mindset refuse to think outside the box and therefore are stuck in a 19th century mindset (yes you yokels are waaaay behind) your ignorance shines thru glaringly. I hope you enjoy these last 21 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    By Black Independents for Obama

    October 14, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

    By LoFlyer October 14, 2008 10:03 AM

    @ LoFlyer I’m going to point out two major flaws in your argument, first off you called “Obama and Ayers brothers in arms”, that was cute to say the least, then you pointed to the alleged voter registration fraud by ACORN. You say that Ayers killed 7 people? Not in the least LoFlyer, the organization he founded did carry out bombings in the last 60’s and 70’s but no one was ever killed in those bombings, the worst that happened was when he blew up the Haymarket Statue in downtown Chicago, and the debris fell onto the Kennedy Expressway causing a severe traffic jam. No one was killed, no was injured, stop getting your information from Fox News; they are far from credible as far as journalism goes. Some (two not seven) of his own supporters did die however in the early 70’s in New York when the pipe bomb they were assembling blew up and caught them on fire, but as far as anyone dying from a bomb that Ayers placed is just another Sean Hannity fairy tale. Ayers was just a radical hippie who went too far, as I’m sure a number of you were also back in those days, not justifying what Ayers did by any means; but to call him a terrorist is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention that the work he has done/ is doing in the inner city of Chicago with public schools and the homeless far surpasses any harm he caused in the turbulent 60’s and early 70’s. Chicago’s public schools in the 1980’s made the Atlanta public school of today system look like a New England private school, now they are not perfect, but much better, in part to the work Ayers has done. Bush and Cheney because of their policies and lies have killed far, far more people than 7, but I bet you think that the Iraq War was justified huh? Now onto ACORN, how can you call it voter fraud when the elections have not even been held? It’s only voter fraud if people fraudulently cast ballots under other people’s names, or uses that fraudulent information to prevent people from voting. The simple fact that the election is three weeks away would prevent anything that ACORN is currently doing as being classified as “voter fraud”; you could perhaps call it voter registration fraud, but voter fraud? Hardly, voter fraud is what the Republicans did in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004; but I digress because that’s missing the larger point. Even if ACORN registers 8 million people fraudulently, it won’t matter because those people will never cast ballots, you know why? Because they don’t exist!!! I currently live in Atlanta but I was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana; right in across the state line from Chicago (the home of Ayers and the regional hub of ACORN)and 5 miles west of Gary, Indiana, the town in question in Wooten’s article above. In Indiana you must present a state issued ID to cast a ballot, so unless the state govt. of Indiana issues 5,000 ID’s of the same individual, its highly improbable that those 5,000 ballots will be cast. LoFlyer you intelligence is apparent in your post, but the simple fact that you and others with your mindset refuse to think outside the box and therefore are stuck in a 19th century mindset (yes you yokels are waaaay behind) your ignorance shines thru glaringly. I hope you enjoy these last 21 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    By Black Independents for Obama

    October 14, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

    By LoFlyer October 14, 2008 10:03 AM

    @ LoFlyer I’m going to point out two major flaws in your argument, first off you called “Obama and Ayers brothers in arms”, that was cute to say the least, then you pointed to the alleged voter registration fraud by ACORN. You say that Ayers killed 7 people? Not in the least LoFlyer, the organization he founded did carry out bombings in the last 60’s and 70’s but no one was ever killed in those bombings, the worst that happened was when he blew up the Haymarket Statue in downtown Chicago, and the debris fell onto the Kennedy Expressway causing a severe traffic jam. No one was killed, no was injured, stop getting your information from Fox News; they are far from credible as far as journalism goes. Some (two not seven) of his own supporters did die however in the early 70’s in New York when the pipe bomb they were assembling blew up and caught them on fire, but as far as anyone dying from a bomb that Ayers placed is just another Sean Hannity fairy tale. Ayers was just a radical hippie who went too far, as I’m sure a number of you were also back in those days, not justifying what Ayers did by any means; but to call him a terrorist is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention that the work he has done/ is doing in the inner city of Chicago with public schools and the homeless far surpasses any harm he caused in the turbulent 60’s and early 70’s. Chicago’s public schools in the 1980’s made the Atlanta public school of today system look like a New England private school, now they are not perfect, but much better, in part to the work Ayers has done. Bush and Cheney because of their policies and lies have killed far, far more people than 7, but I bet you think that the Iraq War was justified huh? Now onto ACORN, how can you call it voter fraud when the elections have not even been held? It’s only voter fraud if people fraudulently cast ballots under other people’s names, or uses that fraudulent information to prevent people from voting. The simple fact that the election is three weeks away would prevent anything that ACORN is currently doing as being classified as “voter fraud”; you could perhaps call it voter registration fraud, but voter fraud? Hardly, voter fraud is what the Republicans did in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004; but I digress because that’s missing the larger point. Even if ACORN registers 8 million people fraudulently, it won’t matter because those people will never cast ballots, you know why? Because they don’t exist!!! I currently live in Atlanta but I was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana; right in across the state line from Chicago (the home of Ayers and the regional hub of ACORN)and 5 miles west of Gary, Indiana, the town in question in Wooten’s article above. In Indiana you must present a state issued ID to cast a ballot, so unless the state govt. of Indiana issues 5,000 ID’s of the same individual, its highly improbable that those 5,000 ballots will be cast. LoFlyer you intelligence is apparent in your post, but the simple fact that you and others with your mindset refuse to think outside the box and therefore are stuck in a 19th century mindset (yes you yokels are waaaay behind) your ignorance shines thru glaringly. I hope you enjoy these last 21 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    By Black Independents for Obama

    October 14, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

    By LoFlyer October 14, 2008 10:03 AM

    @ LoFlyer I’m going to point out two major flaws in your argument, first off you called “Obama and Ayers brothers in arms”, that was cute to say the least, then you pointed to the alleged voter registration fraud by ACORN. You say that Ayers killed 7 people? Not in the least LoFlyer, the organization he founded did carry out bombings in the last 60’s and 70’s but no one was ever killed in those bombings, the worst that happened was when he blew up the Haymarket Statue in downtown Chicago, and the debris fell onto the Kennedy Expressway causing a severe traffic jam. No one was killed, no was injured, stop getting your information from Fox News; they are far from credible as far as journalism goes. Some (two not seven) of his own supporters did die however in the early 70’s in New York when the pipe bomb they were assembling blew up and caught them on fire, but as far as anyone dying from a bomb that Ayers placed is just another Sean Hannity fairy tale. Ayers was just a radical hippie who went too far, as I’m sure a number of you were also back in those days, not justifying what Ayers did by any means; but to call him a terrorist is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention that the work he has done/ is doing in the inner city of Chicago with public schools and the homeless far surpasses any harm he caused in the turbulent 60’s and early 70’s. Chicago’s public schools in the 1980’s made the Atlanta public school of today system look like a New England private school, now they are not perfect, but much better, in part to the work Ayers has done. Bush and Cheney because of their policies and lies have killed far, far more people than 7, but I bet you think that the Iraq War was justified huh? Now onto ACORN, how can you call it voter fraud when the elections have not even been held? It’s only voter fraud if people fraudulently cast ballots under other people’s names, or uses that fraudulent information to prevent people from voting. The simple fact that the election is three weeks away would prevent anything that ACORN is currently doing as being classified as “voter fraud”; you could perhaps call it voter registration fraud, but voter fraud? Hardly, voter fraud is what the Republicans did in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004; but I digress because that’s missing the larger point. Even if ACORN registers 8 million people fraudulently, it won’t matter because those people will never cast ballots, you know why? Because they don’t exist!!! I currently live in Atlanta but I was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana; right in across the state line from Chicago (the home of Ayers and the regional hub of ACORN)and 5 miles west of Gary, Indiana, the town in question in Wooten’s article above. In Indiana you must present a state issued ID to cast a ballot, so unless the state govt. of Indiana issues 5,000 ID’s of the same individual, its highly improbable that those 5,000 ballots will be cast. LoFlyer you intelligence is apparent in your post, but the simple fact that you and others with your mindset refuse to think outside the box and therefore are stuck in a 19th century mindset (yes you yokels are waaaay behind) your ignorance shines thru glaringly. I hope you enjoy these last 21 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    By AmVet

    October 14, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

    In Georgia, many of us veterans have decided to endorse Jim Martin in his race against Saxby “Blood & Guts” Chambliss, who won his seat with a degrading campaign against Vietnam war hero, Max Cleland.

    And this is our shot to take the seat back for veterans. But, that’s not the only reason to defeat Chambliss. The greatest reason is that we can put a real friend of veterans into office!

    From 1969-1971, Jim Martin served in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant, and did a tour in Vietnam.

    Since then, Jim has continued his public service to this nation, serving as Chief Legal Counsel of the Public Defender system in Georgia, Commissioner of Human Resources for the State, and years in the State Legislature where he authored and developed consensus on and passed more than 60 major pieces of reform legislation in the areas of healthcare, family law, civil and criminal justice, education, probate, business law, environmental law, labor law and tax policy.

    Jim Martin is extremely close to winning this race and can use every bit of help. But, more importantly, veterans need Jim Martin.

    Support the Troops - Vote Chambliss out.

    By Rockerbabe

    October 14, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

    The last time I voted, which was last week, in the early election period, most of the people I saw and waited in line with, were people with valid ID’s and valid registrations. We were there for two reasons, to vote for the people and the propositions on the ballot and to avoid the crush of people on election day. I think this business of voter fraud is more a a problem for Republicans than Democrats as they have more to loose due to their past bad behavior and overt suppression of people trying to vote. And, there is the issue with overtly disallowing valid votes to be counted. Take you complaints elsewhere - it doesn’t right true, mainly because,you haven’t produced pr prosecuted anyone who voted illegally.

    By Devastator

    October 14, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

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    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

    The chimp is hitting the bottle again, and his handlers don’t really care, they are busy packing their parachutes….the true neocons want the chimp drunk enough to order an all out air attack on Iran…If that happens, President Obama on 1/20/2008 should arrest the chimp and ALL his staff and advisors, and offer them to Iran in exchange for peace…..We should also give Iran the country formerly known as Israel, since they and their agents are behind this constant “attack Iran” theme.

    By Ragnar Danneskjöld

    October 14, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

    How to steal an election – Washington state, 2004 Precinct 1823

    Crunching the data in the King Ukraine County voter registration file, I came across precinct SEA 37-1823, or simply Precinct 1823, located in downtown Seattle between Elliot Bay and I-5 near the James St. exit.

    Precinct 1823 has 763 registered “Active” voters. 527 of them list as their residence address 500 4th Ave — the King County Administration Building. 241 of these voters specifically note their apartment number as #553, which is the room number of the … King Ukraine County Records and Elections office. Over 300 of these alleged “voters” give 500 4th Ave. (with or without the Elections office room number) as both their residence and mailing addresses.

    Several of the other Elections Office residents give overseas mailing addresses, such as Anuj Rathi of Mumbai, India, Rayko Suzuki of Tokyo, Japan, and Pascal Engi of Bern, Switzerland.

    Another 48 of the Precinct 1823 “voters” give as their residence address 511 3rd Ave, which appears to be some sort of private mailbox service.

    And then there are the two Messrs. Harder — Mike Harder of 509 3rd Ave. Apt. 507, who registered to vote on April 28, 2004 and Michael D. Harder of 509 3rd Ave. Apt. 507, who registered to vote on July 20, 2004. Both Messrs. Harder are flagged as permanent absentee voters. [while it is possible that this is, say, a father and son, I believe that is unlikely in this case. There is one additional voter registered at this apartment and in the same time frame. The only other apartments in this building have only one or two registered voters each. i.e. it’s doubtful that any of the apartments in the building would house 3 or more adults].

    465 (61%) of the Precinct 1823 voters registered during 2004 and nearly all of them “live” at 500 4th Ave. By contrast, only 13% of all of King County voters registered in 2004.

    3 members of the List of 573 Magical Mystery Voters are from Precinct 1823, 2 of whom “live” at the Elections Office. In the machine recount, Precinct 1823 gave 203 votes to Gregoire and 87 votes to Rossi, for a net Gregoire lead of 116 votes.

    The only way for Christine Gregoire to win the governor’s race is to carry Precinct 1823 in a landslide.

    UPDATE: Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens explained that the residents of the Elections office are “homeless individuals”, and that there is a special section of the administrative code which allows for that. He sees nothing unusual in the fact that some of these so-called homeless individuals also give mailing addresses elsewhere. I asked him what the county did to verify the identities of individuals who list the elections office as their residence and he said that they can’t be treated any differently from anybody else. I take that to mean, that anybody on the planet who wants to vote (or vote again) can simply claim to be a resident of the King County Elections office.

    UPDATE 2: I heard John Carlson discuss the Precinct 1823 findings on his show this afternoon. A police officer informed him that 511 3rd Avenue is not a private mail service, but a flophouse, most of whose residents are felons. Carlson also discussed Precinct 1823 with County Councilmember Larry Phillips, who made a bland statement about correcting faulty voting procedures. State Auditor Brian Sonntag had a good laugh at some of the weirder details from Precinct 1823, but also said very seriously that people elsewhere in the state have gone to jail for vote fraud and that the irregularities in King County need to be investigated.

    UPDATE 3: Bobbie Egan from the Elections office e-mails: King County like all counties is guided by the same law which allows the homeless to register to vote using a county building as an address.

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

    peerless fauxdick

    Peerless, Bush is a MORON, and also an IDIOT! Plain and simple…

    I call them as I see them …

    He never had a clue. Still doesn’t! That’s why he has the lowest approval rating since RMN .. Who was a paranoid crook!

    By Ragnar Danneskjöld

    October 14, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

    spamalert @ 12:50

    By Locke

    October 14, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

    Devastator-tot, That’s either naive or ignorant to think one side or the other has a lock on lies and smears. That’s the nature of politics.

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

    HillBilly Ragger- By not denouncing the atrocious acts of Mr. & Mrs. Ayers but in fact shrug your shoulders as if to say “whats the harm???”

    Is a disgrace. The things he and his group were responsible for doing to other Americans were premeditated, unprecidented at the time, and done with hate and treason in their hearts…

    So go ahead, defend the Weather Underground Bill Ayers and his wife. Make your stand however disgraceful. In a free society you can do that.

    In a society led by Obama, influenced by Ayers, Rev’s Flager/Wright, and extremeist Muslims like Khalid Rhasidi, you won’t be able too. You will not be “along for the the ride” under Obama’s administration. Once used for your vote you will be flushed down the toilet.

    Do you own a home? If you do…. The perfect example of this is what was your homes value in 2003? What is it today?

    Do you think the failed lending policies of Freddie/Fannie had anything to do with the loss of your homes value? If you say yes (and you should, because to do otherwise would show you really do not understand our economic situation) then the only people to blame are Bill Clinton for impimenting these liberal lending policies under his administration, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd for their influence over the legislation Clinton signed, and alos their surpression of any effort Bush put together to address the situation while he was trying to deal with the tragic events of 9/11 and its impact/aftermath that every Obama supporter seems to want to trivialize/ignore.

    If you say yes to this question, then you should also be very upset with Executive Management of Fannie and Freddie for taking advantage of the umbrella protections provided by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and once elected, Barrack Obama.

    You should also throw Ralf Reed and Nancy Pelosi an “atta boy” for your homes loss in value, because since they came to power, they have say back on their haunch’s and done not a damn (to use an Obama word from the last debate) “Proactive” thing to deal with this. They helped the situation to where it is now……

    John McCain was the one who put his name on a bill to try and prevent this. Not Barrack Obama……

    It does not matter who wrote it…. It matters who supported it and the reasons they did.

    When it comes to judgement….. It matters not what happened…Thats already in the past. What matters is what you are going to do about it, and is what you are going to do, right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate.

    All through this campaign we have seen McCain supporters calling for hime to come down off the “high road” and get into the gutter with Obama and his convetion crashing supporters, with Obama and his race baiting John Lewis, Rev’s Wright&Flager, and with Obama and his circle of radical UNAMERICAN friends who influence his platform…Mr. & Mrs. Bill Ayers..Please stand up…Mr. Khalid Rhasidi ..Please stand up..Do you want to be counted with that crowd???? Your loss of value in your home alone, should tell you to say “NO”. Only a good dose of brainwashing can help you ignore who Obama is, how his friends influence him, how his party operates, and what the results of the past 3 years of innactivity in Congress has done.

    McCain/Palin 2008

    Change not forged from college campus’s where unfortunately our youth are in alot of cases subjected to Professors who could not do, teach. This where students take the values what they were brought up with and put them to work. This is where “judgement” matures. Not as an elected Senator, or God forbid President. Obama as a 47 year old has not shown the mature judgement required for the job of President. He has shown he can sidestep, trivialize, and brainwash sure, but looking at his track record, he has not shown anything that will really make a beneficial difference for America.

    The experience and track record of John McCain a man who has served his country his whole life in both operational and administrative capacities and without regard for partisanship more than just about any other Senator is the only logical choice. So says my home’s value.

    By Devastator

    October 14, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

    Locke,

    It’s the nature being liars and packing when the other side is kicking a$$!

    Is it nature if lies lead to unfortunate incidents because some nut can’t grasp reality?

    By Devastator

    October 14, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

    MikeB,

    Wow man. You’re so smart. You can analyze, predict the future, tell us how to think, and everything.

    Who needs books, bibles, teachers, God, or a brain when we have you?

    What would we do without you?

    By dirty harry

    October 14, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 1:06 PM

    MICHAEL.. Calm down!

    You wrote;

    “You should also throw Ralf Reed” Isn’t Ralph Reed that religeous right wing nut?

    But one who doesn’t let that get in the way of him making a little money on the sly (see Jack Abramoff) gambling casinos!

    Mike rant and rave all you want, but at least get the names right…It’s Harry Reid you are referring to…That’ll be $1.00 for baiing you out!

    By Reality

    October 14, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

    The concept is not that difficult — no ID, no vote; illegally in the US, no vote; felon, no vote!! What’s the problem????

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

    Oh Peerless…Oh peerless…Oh Peerless!

    Where art thou, Oh peerless?

    No comeback…I thought not!

    By Ga Values

    October 14, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

    AmVet 12:48 PM

    Thanks for a good write up of Saxby the Fearless, Personal doctor writes letter about bad knee to local draft board while Saxby is playing baseball for UGA. Saxby the Fearless for LOBBYIST. You left out how Saxby voted to cut spending on VA Hospitals during a time of war. Saxby must have forgot why he dodged the draft.

    By peerless fauxdick

    October 14, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

    stalkernazi.

    Oh well flakery is the severest form of jock itch … which your mouth has.

    HA! In your face you vintage cartoon character.

    By Devastator

    October 14, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

    Obama’s plan includes four new major ideas about job creation, relief to families, relief to homeowners and responding to the financial crisis:

    Job Creation: A New American Jobs Tax Credit. Obama is calling for a temporary tax credit for firms that create new jobs in the United States over the next two years.

    Relief to Families: Penalty-Free Withdrawals from IRAs and 401(k)s in 2008 and 2009. Obama is calling for new legislation to allow families to withdraw 15% of their retirement savings – up to a maximum of $10,000 – without facing a tax-penalty this year (including retroactively) and next year.

    Relief to Homeowners: 90 day foreclosure moratorium for homeowners that are acting in good faith. Financial institutions that participate in the Treasury’s financial rescue plan should be required to adhere to a homeowners code of conduct, including a 90-day foreclosure moratorium for any homeowners living in their homes that are making good faith efforts pay their mortgages.

    Responding to the Financial Crisis: A Lending Facility to Address the Credit Crisis for States and Localities. Obama is calling on the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to work to establish a facility to lend to state and municipal governments, similar to the steps the Fed recently took to provide liquidity to the commercial paper market. Obama’s plan also calls for temporarily eliminating taxes on unemployment insurance benefits; keeping all options on the table to help our automakers weather the financial crisis; having the Fed and Treasury prepare for guaranteeing a broader range of liabilities of the banking system; and instructing Treasury to help unfreeze markets for individual mortgages, student loans, car loans, loans for multi-family dwellings and credit card loans.

    Read Obama’s full Economic Rescue Plan.

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

    Yes…My mistake it was supposed to be Harry Reid. Thank you for reading….

    With the correction, the argument is still sound. No way to “spin” out of that.

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

    Dear Southern Democrat,12:18

    You, my friend, are going too far back. There are now no Southern “codes” for black voter discrimination. The reach is for legal voters as much as possible.

    With organizations like ACORN using every illegal tactic they can manage to outwit legal limits, caution about voters is hard to malign.

    Illegal voters are usually the disadvantaged ignorant who may not know what they do is illegal or see a chance for monetary payoffs. The same may be true of illegal aliens. Or even convicts.

    Nevertheless, their registrations may be phony or their status may be illegal. Do you want these people to vote? I don’t. Legal? YES. Illegal? NO.

    I see Handel trying to keep the criminal element out of elections. That, too, is fine with me.

    As to police presence, I believe every time I have voted there has been a parked police car on the premises. No one seemed intimidated. There are numerous signs about politicing in the vicinity. FINE! AGAIN!! I am for keeping the polls for legal voters of any color or political party. But NO cheaters or crooks.

    By the way, have you noticed the down hill trend of your party? The hate produced since Bush was elected has even produced antiwar Dems during war time, Bush hate philosophy, disdain for our troops and our efforts against terrorism, and a paralyzed Congress. Republicans are not perfect but they certainly are better than any of the current Democrats who even offer an inexperienced socialist for President.

    By DJ

    October 14, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

    Wow, Jim, spoken like a real racist!! Let’s count them, how many races have the Republicans stolen? Many and that is not going to happen this year. Yes, Karen Handel is being put in check and she should be. I don’t care if she is not intimidated; I just want her to do the right thing. My concern is all of the indviduals she has taken off of the register that are valid registered voters. As for your accusations about ACORN, why don’t you report it correctly. ACORN has acknowledged that some of their workers made up names, and those people have been fired and those applications have been flagged, but ALL of the application have to be submitted. Legally they can not discard them. I am so sick of you desparate, mean-spirited Republicans trying to tie Senator Obama to shady characters. Senator Obama served as an attorney for ACORN back in the 90’s and they are not registering voters for his campaign. Why don’t you tell your readers that John McCain also had a relationship with ACORN. He spoke at a top level ACORN event in 2006.

    As for the people who would do same day registering if this were possible in Georgia, I resent your bias statement about who these people would be. There are plenty of honest hard working people who would love to have that opportunity. And finally, many thieves, crooks and other unlawful persons are REPUBLICANS, they might also do same day registrstion. I’m glad the Democrats frigthen you. Get ready for eight years of serious fear!!!!! Obama in ‘08 and ‘12!!!!!!

    By findog

    October 14, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

    Jim,

    Thirty-five years ago I had a championship Australian Shepherd; they are great working dogs. The thing with working a herd is there are two ways to move animals; some might refer to it as carrots and sticks. You can try to draw the animals by cajoling them with treats but the most reliable method is fear. Most voters are sheep, too stupid to study positions or measure the full effect of candidate proposals to them or the country. Thus fear is the best means to electoral victory…

    By MickeyD

    October 14, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

    ACORN just signed up a 7 year old girl and Mickey Mouse. The fraudulent radical left will deny voter fraud to the end, and deny that Obama was involved with ACORN when there are pictures all over the web of him meeting with them in Chicago. Their denialist mentality is almost as hilarious as Baghdad Bob exclaiming to the world that no Allied Coalition tanks are rolling through his city: “THERE IS NOTHING WRONG AND NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!” Morons.

    Regarding frightening, you have to consider that when the NYT prints an article about worry over a complete far left socialist US government, then there is something out there that has a lot of people spooked. In fact, there are a lot of people out there who will be pulling their money the hell out of the US if Obama wins. After all, all those trillions that Pelosi, Reid, and Barack are proposing have to be paid by someone, and it sure isn’t going to be the bottom 50% of taxpayers who only pay 3% of them. For you slow people out there voting for Obama, that means that 50% of this nation’s private taxpayers pay 97% of all federal income tax taken in by citizens —and the top 10% of them pay 70% of that. We can do the math and see the writing on the wall.

    By crafty b

    October 14, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

    When I saw the title of this I thought it was some kind’ve over-obvious sarcastic joke. But then I opened the article and found it was serious. Oh my!!

    OK, I get it… Karl Rove taught us all to attack the other side on our weakness and all. It’s cute. I know.. Georg W. Bush (son of a President, born multimillionaire, and legacy Yale Graduate) derides the “elite”… The Republicans tarnished a purple hearted veteran for his service in the support of a candidate that was in the Louisiana hampagne Unit at best, AWOL from the Louisiana Champagne Unit at worst while the tarnished veteran was getting shot at on a Swiftboat in Vietnam…

    But this is just too absurd. I mean, it’s just laughable in the extreme. The “Left” is the side of fear? Haaaaawhawhawwww!!!! PLEASE! Stop it!! You’re killing me!!! LOL!!!

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

    Well Peerless you have yet to debunk my claims that BUSH is an idiot and to boot a moron…So away with you .. shoo .. Your irrelevance is only magnified in your last post…So off with you!

    By crafty b

    October 14, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

    When I saw the title of this I thought it was some kind’ve over-obvious sarcastic joke. But then I opened the article and found it was serious. Oh my!!

    OK, I get it… Karl Rove taught us all to attack the other side on our weakness and all. It’s cute. I know.. Georg W. Bush (son of a President, born multimillionaire, and legacy Yale Graduate) derides the “elite”… The Republicans tarnished a purple hearted veteran for his service in the support of a candidate that was in the Louisiana hampagne Unit at best, AWOL from the Louisiana Champagne Unit at worst while the tarnished veteran was getting shot at on a Swiftboat in Vietnam…

    But this is just too absurd. I mean, it’s just laughable in the extreme. The “Left” is the side of fear? Haaaaawhawhawwww!!!! PLEASE! Stop it!! You’re killing me!!! LOL!!!

    By MickeyD

    October 14, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

    By DJ October 14, 2008 1:43 PM

    Wow, Jim, spoken like a real racist!! Let’s count them, how many races have the Republicans stolen?

    RACE! RACIST! NAZI! KKK MEMBER! Spoken like a true gutter liberal. And how many convictions or even proof has their been of GOP voter fraud that’s made it to the courts? None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Deal with it. Get over it. We’ve got you liberal goons by the shorthairs and you know it.

    By AmVet

    October 14, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

    Ga. Values, as good as the news is regarding Jim Martin’s chances, it is likely that Suxbad, a loyal Bush/Abramoff toady,will be sent right back to the sh!thole he helped create.

    He is still very popular with the crackers, draft dodgers, Moral Majority nuts/christofascists, K Street boys (including his own) and never-served, never will chickenhawks and assorted ostriches.

    But I for one, will party for a week if that gutless scumbag loses…

    By peerless fauxdick

    October 14, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

    Well, first, I fall out when I dismiss myself, private. Second, he got elected president of the U.S. twice and is a college graduate. I think those achievements render your delirious school girl claims busted. It’s empirically provable that an idiot or a moron cannot accomplish those things. Maybe you should go back to selling hair tonic.

    By dirty harry

    October 14, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

    By crafty b

    October 14, 2008 1:49 PM

    CRAFTY..As one who I think is on your side of the issues..I must correct a few misnomers.

    Bush was in the TEXAS ANG .. later transferred to the Alabama Guard, and subsequently due to failure to take a required flight physical removed from flight status!

    No one can recall his ever showing up for a weekend drill!

    In effect he was awol…

    Just like he has been for the last 8 years!

    By hotlanta

    October 14, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

    Palin is saying I an here, inexperienced and I ain’t going nowhere and ain’t nothing no one can do about it. Barack was selected by millions of people and Sarah was selected by 1. You do the math.

    By Maniac is accurate

    October 14, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

    It’s been fun and it’s been real political forescam, but I have to work for a living. Adieu, mon ami. Or, just assume I’m running away since you kicked my butt so bad. You know, whichever.

    By hotlanta

    October 14, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

    Palin is saying I an here, inexperienced and I ain’t going nowhere and ain’t nothing no one can do about it. Barack was selected by millions of people and Sarah was selected by 1. You do the math.

    By fearless fosdik

    October 14, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

    Cool Beans PEERLESS…A college graduate!

    Wow…tell me I’m not impressed.

    That is sooooooo cool!

    You got any more game than that?

    talk about LAME!

    By Jim

    October 14, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

    The Republicans always want to suppress turnout and disenfranchise whomever they can. Why? Because if everyone who is eligible to vote participates, the Republicans will lose every time. After all, once you get past the millionaires and the people dumb enough to think that Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the United States; they are well short of a plurality. People need to put country first and fire everyone associated with the incompetent Bush administration. Lastly, I would be embarrassed to admit that I ever voted for George W. Bush. What a mistake that was! Hopefully people who did that will do the patriotic thing this time and vote against four years of McSame.

    By Jim

    October 14, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

    The Republicans always want to suppress turnout and disenfranchise whomever they can. Why? Because if everyone who is eligible to vote participates, the Republicans will lose every time. After all, once you get past the millionaires and the people dumb enough to think that Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the United States; they are well short of a plurality. People need to put country first and fire everyone associated with the incompetent Bush administration. Lastly, I would be embarrassed to admit that I ever voted for George W. Bush. What a mistake that was! Hopefully people who did that will do the patriotic thing this time and vote against four years of McSame.

    By Jim

    October 14, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

    The Republicans always want to suppress turnout and disenfranchise whomever they can. Why? Because if everyone who is eligible to vote participates, the Republicans will lose every time. After all, once you get past the millionaires and the people dumb enough to think that Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the United States; they are well short of a plurality. People need to put country first and fire everyone associated with the incompetent Bush administration. Lastly, I would be embarrassed to admit that I ever voted for George W. Bush. What a mistake that was! Hopefully people who did that will do the patriotic thing this time and vote against four years of McSame.

    By BS Aplenty

    October 14, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

    Why Barack Obama Should Not be President

    Barack Obama attended the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois, for almost twenty years. Attended, taught, learned, worshipped and sang along with his wife and children until his abrupt resignation in May 2008. That resignation was brought about due to heightened national awareness of the “nature” of Obama’s congregation. A nature that was further brought into focus by unsavory sermon tapes of former TUCC minister, Jeremiah Wright. But for all the bluster and ignorance reflected in his sermons, Wright’s ranting from the pulpit only hinted at a deeper, more troubling truth about TUCC and Obama.

    What is it that made TUCC such a political liability to the first African-American nominated by a major political party? The answer to that question lies in the doctrine and teachings of TUCC. In short, this congregation, unlike ANY other United Church of Christ church in the United States, adopted, endorsed and promotes the doctrine and teachings of one James H. Cone. Cone systematized what has been called black liberation theology as outlined in his two books, the first entitled, Black Theology and Black Power and a follow-on, A Black Theology of Liberation. These are the only two books sold by the Trinity United Church of Christ on its website. TUCC doesn’t sell or give away the BIBLE on its website – a circumstance I find very telling.

    The two books mentioned are, to say the least, “interesting” reads. Black Theology and Black Power is the seminal work on black liberation theology and A Black Theology of Liberation is a follow-on. Cone viewed his theology as, “…complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary. So-called (white) Christianity, as commonly practiced in the United States, is actually the racist Antichrist.” “Theologically,” Cone affirms, “Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil’.” And, there’s more – much more - but you get the picture.

    So there you have it, the principal doctrine endorsed and promoted by the Trinity United Church of Christ teaches the overtly racist sentiments of James H. Cone. The preaching and “ignorance”, as some say, of Wright is shown to be symptomatic of that larger racism and neglects to see that the entire TUCC congregation accepts the doctrine of Cone under the guise of a Christian church. Wright was just a mouthpiece, it’s the congregation, including Obama, which endorsed and promotes this racist doctrine.

    ANY person or group that attempts to systematically demonize another group because of race is, by definition, RACIST.

    Needless to say for Obama and his presidential campaign by May 2008 the ‘cat was out of the bag’. And, after twenty years of commitment to TUCC, Barack Obama finally, cynically made a decision to leave. A decision his avid campaign supporter, Oprah Winfrey, made several years earlier as she cynically managed a business agenda of her own. One would have to be patently naïve not to understand the motivation behind both departures. Nor is it much of a political stretch to acknowledge the release of these sermon tapes focused attention on the fall-guy, Wright, while diverting a direct, and potentially, campaign-ending blow to Obama.

    What one is left with after all the media lights have dimmed is this unsettling fact. For twenty years Barack Obama accepted the racist doctrine of his church – twenty years. And, only when this inconvenient truth was brought to national light did he decide that maybe that doctrine was no longer acceptable.

    Recently, TUCC responded to pointed observations about its racist doctrines and renovated its website removing the James H. Cone texts and other Black Liberation rhetoric. Previously, the Cone texts were the only doctrines sold on the TUCC website. During this presidential season, the congregation has substituted other texts for sale that now do not mention Black Liberation Theology. That “bump-bump, bump-bump” you just heard was the sound of James Cone being thrown under the political bus to provide cover for the Obama campaign.

    TUCC has a way of casting out doctrine and preachers faster than Jesus could cast out demons.

    Can you feel the power of their political, er, religious conversion?

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

    Karl Rove is not running for anything.

    Karl Rove does not play the race card when he stands for a platform.

    You guys are great tho…cannot make it stick to McCain, go to Palin…Cannot make anything stick to Palin??? ….Go to Bush, then Rove…..

    What next? Mickey Mouse? Oops guess not…..ACORN already got to him for ya…

    I love this new verbage too…. “Tax Credits” Just friggin welfare. Its all it is, and its comming out of hard working Americans income, to be dropped in the hands of people who don’t contribute. Why??? SO they will keep on voting the people who provided these “Tax Credits” to them, back into office.

    * That is the only reason*

    McCain/Palin 2008

    For voters who work hard and want to keep more of what they earn. For voters who do not want Governement running their lives while bribing do nothings with “Tax Credits”

    If you get off your butt every day and make it happen….Not talk about making it happen, but actually work hard and succeed honorably in your daily life with choices you make, then John McCain is the President who is going to facilitate your ability to keep doing that.

    If you are not succeeding in your life, don’t blame the Governement, look in the mirror, look at the choices you have made for yourself, have some pride, TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY, and then take action to correct your mistakes. its not the governments responsibility to support able bodied citizens. Orphans, Elderly and Vetrans yes.

    People that can sit here write blogs be it at home work or the library on a for the public computer, Hell No.

    John McCain knows this. His experience proves he knows this.

    he is not in it just to say “ha ha we won”, like some of you here will do if Obama is elected. The election is much more important than such rhetoric. He knows its the beginning of the road, where as Obama thinks its the mountaintop.

    McCain/Palin 2008

    By DCDawg

    October 14, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

    JimBob – the comedian – describes ACORN as “an organization long associated with Barack Obama.” Hey JimBob, I bet you didn’t know that erstwhile Presidential candidate John McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored event as recently as 2006. ACORN released this statement, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans.” This link includes more info and a nice photo: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/AcornpushesbackhugsMcCain.html?showall

    By SavingGrace

    October 14, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

    Face it folks, if McCain’s message was hitting home with voters then he would win. If the public trusts the Republicans then they will win. If the public thinks McCain/Palin are better suited to deal with all our challenges then they will win. Stop whining about how mean Democrats are and how the media is in a conspiracy to make you lose. You sound like a bunch of babies. You have three weeks to come to grips with this because there is no way Obama is going to lose this election. So I suggest you learn to buck up and lose gracefully because you sure don’t know how to compete gracefully. It’s like watching a bunch of playground bullies go at it.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

    Well, I am maxed out on my donations to Obama, but I just gave $2,000 to ACORN…just to p** off you clowns who are bashing that worthy organization.

    By findog

    October 14, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

    Zeke @9:40 No “all caps” posters allowed to vote and good luck changing the constitution

    JLK @10:07 Bulk up?

    Dusty @10:33 If we have voter ID at the polls how could the Mickey Mouse fake citizens get to vote? I thought the voter ID law was going to fix fraudulent voting? As far as believing what I read on this blog, please…

    You can have Obama tied to Ayers at the hip, IF, you tie Senator McCain to W! You can have Obama tied to fear, IF, you tie Saxby to OBL add six years ago!

    By Locke

    October 14, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

    Devastator-tot, Kicking a$$ the dems are. I’m just saying neither side can claim the moral high ground. Most pols, dem or repub, lie in the same gutter and sling the same filth.

    By thedcblogger

    October 14, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

    Are you kidding me? Republicans are the biggest scare mongers out there. The only way they win elections is to conjure a boogey man and frighten the daylights out of the general public. Communists, hippies, elites, gays, Muslims, France, AIDS, abortion doctors, anyone who thinks you don’t necessarily need a cache of arms big enough to supply a merc outfit in Central America, any non-evangelical people—Christian or otherwise, stem cell researchers, and on and on and on. Repubs don’t win unless they have a boogey man.

    Nice try at the Rove tactic of turning your own vices back on the opponent.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

    I just read a report that predicts Obama will win 360 plus electoral votes….

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

    Obama Could Win 364 Electoral Votes, Traders Say (Update2)

    By Julianna Goldman

    Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama is likely to pick up 364 Electoral College votes, far surpassing the 270 needed to claim the presidency, by winning battleground states including Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and Colorado, online traders say.

    Bettors on the Dublin-based Intrade’s political futures market believe Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, will prevail in all the states won by party nominee John Kerry in 2004, in addition to picking up other previously Republican strongholds such as Nevada and Missouri. Arizona Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, would pick up 174 Electoral votes, winning states such as Texas, Indiana and West Virginia.

    As the economic crisis dominates the presidential campaign, Obama, an Illinois senator, has surged in national polls over McCain. Obama has opened a 10 percentage-point lead over McCain, 53 percent to 43 percent, among likely voters nationally in a Washington Post-ABC News poll taken Oct. 8-11. That’s up from a 4 point lead in a Post-ABC poll taken at the end of September.

    Still, the presidency will be decided state-by-state —with the candidate who wins the Electoral College, where votes are distributed by winner take all in most states. The two exceptions are Maine and Nebraska, whose votes are apportioned by congressional district.

    Obama Expands Lead

    Futures contracts at Intrade, a unit of Dublin-based Trade Exchange Network Co., show a number of the states that Democrats lost four years ago favoring Obama by at least 2-to-1 margins including Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. Though Obama’s chances are less in Missouri and North Carolina, bettors say both are leaning Obama and have factored the states’ combined 26 Electoral College votes into the total.

    Contract prices on Intrade reflect the odds of a candidate winning and are all-or-nothing wagers. A contract showing a 50 percent chance a candidate will win Ohio, for example, would cost $5 and would pay $10. If the candidate doesn’t win, it would settle at zero.

    By that measure, Obama’s chances of winning the Nov. 4 election are 77.7 percent, according to the latest futures contract price on Intrade at 4:00 p.m. Dublin time.

    Such markets have been more accurate than polls in past elections. In part, that’s because people are placing money on what they expect to happen as opposed to what they would like to happen and who they plan to support.

    By Tom

    October 14, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

    Attended an advanced screening of “W” last night. Very well done and extremely accurate for those familiar w the Bush family history. We see Dubya at his life-of-failures best. And with his drunkeness well into his 40s - whatever brainpower he had long ago pickled by booze and the resultant psychopathicities. And this is YOUR president, whom YOU elected! It’s good, fair viewing for the entire family. Truth in action - for a change.

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

    ACORN released this statement, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans.”

    DCDawg McCain is only doing what Obama should have done to Ayers, Rezko, Wright and Flager years ago……….

    You see, when a group like ACORN abuses the relationship it supposidly cherishes with John McCain by developing and implimenting a plan for nationwide voter fraud, McCain’s experience told him this group can no longer be trusted to be fair.

    That said, McCain is not going to say “Oh..ACORN is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood” like someone we know.

    Sure in 2006 he wanted their support. He had to try and get it. Any politician would want the endorsement of a large active influential, organizational group on their side….

    As long as they conduct themselves responsibly and appropriately.

    This is just one example where Obama is willing to look the other way. thats leadership??? Thats ethics??? That is not what we need in our next President.

    McCain/Palin 2008

    By dirty harry

    October 14, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

    Mr. Wooten is not this quote conceivably a scare tactic..And, I don’t believe it’s from a democrat!

    “Virginia GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Fredericks was quoted by Time magazine as telling campaign volunteers to draw connections between Obama and Osama bin Laden.”

    By the way John McCain refused to refute this NONSENSE!

    By Peter

    October 14, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

    Hey………….By BS Aplenty

    October 14, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

    Why Barack Obama Should Not be President

    RELIGION ??????????

    Ever hear of a separation of Church and state ??????

    Look at Bush……goes to church every Sunday…….then Invades another country based on Lies !

    Some Christian he turns out to be !

    By Filster

    October 14, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

    ACORN was tied to attempts in Florida to register Mickey Mouse to vote. ACORN, to no one’s surprise, has denied any connection. I say that’s just plain GOOFY!!!!

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

    Wow!! It’s hot up in here tonight!! Just a quick comment this is from Shawny(?) “If Obama Supporters were even moderately intelligent, they would be Condoleezza Rice Supporters”

    Shawny(?): Rice isn’t running for President. You have to go back to “start” and loose $200.

    By dirty harry

    October 14, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

    Sarah Palin in becoming quite testy!

    Yesterday at a rally folks in the back couldn’t hear her, and began shouting LOUDER..LOUDER

    She responded thusly, “I hope those protesters have the courage and honor to give veterans thanks for their right to protest.”

    One of her aides had to walk up and whisper in her ear “THEY JUST CAN’T HEAR YOU BACK THERE…THAT’S why THEY ARE YELLING!

    Kinda like when Lieberman had to whisper in McCains ear and correct him on the difference of the Sunni and Shia muslims!

    McCain/Palin is this a joke??????

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

    Democrates expected to control 64 Senate seats…including the two alleged independents…traitor joe to be left out in cold wrt committee assignments…

    By BS Aplenty

    October 14, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

    Why Obama Should Not be President

    To know a man is to understand the gods to which he kneels.

    A man’s speech may be used to inform or misinform others but his worship seeks to edify his own soul. Rarely is there need for deception. And so the journey to understand the candidate Barack Obama must pass through his place of worship, the Trinity United Church of Christ. A congregation where he worshipped, sang, taught and learned for twenty years. A congregation where he also found a life’s mentor in the person of TUCC’s erstwhile minister, Jeremiah Wright.

    TUCC is a numerically significant and unique church among the United Churches of Christ. How unique? Unique in that it alone has adopted as doctrine the teachings of one James H. Cone, the theologian who systematized black liberation theology. And it is in the doctrine of Cone where one finds candidate Obama’s genuine worship. To many Americans that doctrine would differ markedly from what they view as Christian worship. In fact, one wonders what this archaic, racist doctrine has to do with Christianity at all as demonstrated in a doctrinal passage from Cone’s A Theology of Black Liberation:

    This understanding of blackness can be seen as the most adequate symbol of the dimensions of divine activity in America. And insofar as the country is seeking to make whiteness the dominating power throughout the world, whiteness is the symbol of the Antichrist. Whiteness characterizes the activity of deranged individuals intrigued by their own image of themselves, and thus unable to see that they are what is wrong with the world. Black theology seeks to analyze the satanic nature of whiteness and by doing so to prepare all nonwhites for revolutionary action.

    In passing, it may be worthwhile to point out that whites are in no position whatever to question the legitimacy of black theology. Questions like “Do you think theology is black?” or “What about others who suffer?” are the product of minds incapable of black thinking. It is not surprising that those who reject blackness in theology are usually whites who do not question the blue-eyed white Christ. It is hard to believe that whites are worried about black theology on account of its alleged alienation of other sufferers. Oppressors are not genuinely concerned about any oppressed group. It would seem rather that white rejection of black theology stems from a recognition of the revolutionary implications in its very name: a rejection of whiteness, an unwillingness to live under it, and an identification of whiteness with evil and blackness with good. [7-8]

    It seems that for non-black Americans to know the soul of candidate Obama, that is, to understand what he thinks is soul-edifying worship for himself, his wife, his children, one must slog through Cone’s racist doctrine of yester-year. The ‘Change You Can Believe In’ sloganeering now simply reveals this candidate as all-too-comfortable with the politics of deception. And, Obama’s genuine worship shows him as wed to a doctrine wherein there is little tolerance for the larger American community.

    The candidate then seems easy enough to parse, but what are we to make of his avid supporters who well-know the philosophical background of his church, who cheer on their candidate even with his well-known acceptance of racist thought like Cone’s? What are we to infer about an American media that seems decidedly negligent in reporting this to the voters? I’ll leave that to you good people.

    TUCC recently responded to pointed observations about its racist doctrines and renovated its website removing the James H. Cone texts and other Black Liberation rhetoric. Previously, the Cone texts were the only doctrines sold on the TUCC website. The congregation has now substituted other texts for sale that do not mention Black Liberation Theology. That “bump-bump, bump-bump” was the sound of James Cone being thrown under the political bus to provide cover for the Obama campaign.

    During this political season, TUCC has found a way to cast out doctrine and preachers faster than Jesus could cast out demons.

    Ah, can you feel the power of their political, er, religious conversion?

    By dirty harry

    October 14, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

    This from the BOSTON GLOBE..

    “In his efforts to cultivate democracy abroad, Bush has hacked away at its roots here: due process, the separation of powers, the conviction that there are some things that government must not do. Waterboarding and secret prisons abroad, warrantless wiretapping at home - these acts belie America’s image of forthrightness, the nation’s greatest asset in world affairs.”

    George W. Bush will leave a woeful legacy. The Iraq war, which was sold to Congress and the public on false pretenses, continues to consume billions upon billions of dollars, even as many of the plotters of Sept. 11 are still at large.

    McCain more of the same…We as a country do not need or want this!!!!!

    Obama/Biden come November 4th!

    Let up get our country back together.

    By AmVet

    October 14, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

    Condoleezza Rice supporters?

    Trump was right. A lovely woman, but a third rate amateur.

    That is why she was such a good fit in the worst administration in American history.

    And now, that I think of it, just like Ms. Palin.

    What is it with neo-cons and empty dresses?

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

    findog@2:34

    I know nothing about “Mickey Mouse” voters you mention. I have read about ACORN’s numerous efforts at voter registration and voting that are rotted with fraud. As I have said, voting laws are to keep voting LEGAL.

    That may not come as surprise to some of you but Obama was not a bystander for ACORN. He was in court trying to help the radical organization in a lawsuit. Ayers was the radical that has helped organixe and run ACORN. He worked with Obama.

    As to George W. Bush, I shall always be proud that we had a president who could strongly resist terrorism and keep us safe. At the same time, he also freed two countries from the grinding life of dictators.

    You may have no appreciation for your continued safety and our eforts around the world, but Bush had vision and he carried it out. If our economy is not good, we have the freedom to work it out.

    McCain can appreciate Bush. Bush will hand over a White House to him with freedom and without shame. That is a good feeling for all of us.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

    Oh what a beating McCain and Palin are gonna take come 11/4/2008…Worse than that other loser Repuke, Goldfinger, er, goldwater…

    By Peter

    October 14, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

    Well Jim, Dusty, By BS Aplenty , By Ragnar Danneskjöld , and all the Republican’s out there that want to see what will happen in a few weeks……. It has come out today, not quite official…….but really a true indication of America……..

    This very interesting……..

    The kids Poll as who WILL be ELECTED has been CORRECT for the PAST 40 years…….

    SO go home cry for awhile…….your guy is Toast….

    Kids’ poll predicts president 3:15 Every four years, the Scholastic presidential poll asks kids to vote. For the past 40 years, the result has been correct.

    • Politics - News, Opinion and Analysis from CNN.com

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/14/kids.poll.president.cnn

    Seems 57% for Obama, 39% for McCain, and 4% undecided……..

    I bet that will be about correct in the real Election !

    OK Jim………It is about that time to write the ” We almost did it Speech ” !

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

    Who defeated Barry Goldfinger in 1964? Why, it was PussyGalore….what a concept…Dusty’s husband ain’t never heard of such a thing…they got a PussyFamine at the house of Dusty….

    By Black Independents for Obama

    October 14, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

    @ B.S. Aplenty

    Thank you for those regurgitated talking points that we have been force fed by Fox News and the conservative media for the last 10 months, as if the American people have not heard them 20 times already!!!! Once again, I want to take this opportunity to thank you!!!!! But tell me one thing, since we the masses are so stupid, why should McCain be elected, just imagine that this independent voter right here is sitting on the fence and I need to be swayed. Which is not the case, I usually don’t vote Democrat, however this election cycle I will, and no it’s not because Obama is black, its because of the last 8 years, and McCain’s failure to offer anything of substance to the American voter. His whole stance is just don’t vote for that guy, if your whole agenda is based off of trying to slander your opponent instead of offering up ideas of your own on what you will do to change the country, well then I cant support you.

    By AmVet

    October 14, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

    If McCain loses, as he is likely to, I predict it won’t be twelve hours before the first Republimoron credits his loss to “not being conservative enough”!

    And the fascist nuts in the “base” will moan and groan and piously gnash their teeth and turn to Prescription Limberger, mANNish Coulter, Pretty Boy Hannity, Bill “Shut Up” O’Lielly and the other talking nitwits for MUCH solace.

    This just keeps getting better and better…

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

    From BSAplenty:

    Why Obama Should Not be President — To know a man is to understand the gods to which he kneels.

    Abramhoff is probably kneeling to the God of Money (WallStreet) and kickbacks.

    Republican Strategist Karl Rove is probably kneeling to the “Closet God” since he’s still hiding in it.

    Disgraced Repuglican Senator Foley (Florida Teengate Texting scandal) is probably kneeling …… in front of some cute teen boy with tight “abs”.

    Bush is probably kneeling to the porcelain God again — I heard he’s back on the sauce. Pretzels anyone?

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

    I like to have a happy thought as I fall asleep at night: I picture myself beating the crap out of Bill O’Reilly and all his PussyFacedBodyGuards….

    By BS Aplenty

    October 14, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

    A TEN-SECOND PLAY

    Sunday morning worship service at the Trinity United Church of Christ. A young Obama sits in rapt attention. The song service (and the lessons) have just begun.

    REV. JEREMIAH: (standing up) Yes, brothers and sisters, sing with me the songs of redemption, the songs sung by our ancestors as they broke their chains of bondage and headed for freedom, yes sing with me now…

    (SUNG to Jesus Loves Me)

    Foolin’ Whitey’s good to know, Come on in and join our show,
    Shoutin’ loud and dancin’ real, *Maybe Soul Train makes a deal.

    Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high & tidy, My conscience full o’ blow.

    Welfare’s payment for your sins, Givin’ Green’s a recompense, Brother’s got to blame someone, You got Greem, so you’s the one.

    OBAMA: (singing) …Yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high & tidy…

    Twenty years later on the presidential campaign trail and the song remains the same.

    OBAMA: (answering reporters’ questions) …and I sang so off-key in church that anyone familiar with a capella singing would not believe that I believed a word I was singing unless they were singing more off-key than I was. This issue is a diversion from the true problem in America which is color…(…yes, foolin’ Whitey, Green’s God-Almighty, Stacks high & tidy…).

    THE END

    By MV7

    October 14, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

    Jim, I find this interesting. Its Kurtz article about Obama funding extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism. The liberals wont know whats hit them once this clown gets on the loose.

    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWRhZjI2MmM4NTQ4NGM5Mjg0MzU=

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

    Bill O’Reily is probably kneeling to the God of Ratings (I heard he wh0re$ around with it).

    Phil Gramm is probably kneeling to the Gods of Shame (with his whinning self)

    McInsane is probably kneeling to the Gods of “Say Anything Just So I Can Become President” — he’s even sacrificed his soul on the altar of avarice

    Sarah Palin is probably kneeling to the Gods of Birth Control, (she’s decided that NOW is a good time to talk to her daughters, secretly, about getting on the pill)

    With all this kneeling going on the owner winner is ………

    Bill Clinton, He got SERVED!!!!

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

    A Five Second Play

    Scene opens with a drunken, disoriented Bush, sitting at his desk in the Oval Office…….

    Bush picks up the Presidential Phone and says….”Hey, is this the kipchen? Someone bring me some pretzels!”

    By Robert

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

    Fraudulent registrations must be turned into fraudulent votes to sway an election. It is much easier for ACORN, or any other entity, organizational or individual, to submit a fraudulent registration than it is for a fraudulent vote to be cast.

    This is a tempest in a teacup and is being trotted out to set up a ready-made scapegoat for a McCain loss. If you can’t defeat an opponent, then sully their name and accomplishments. This is truly a sad state of affairs.

    By Analchord

    October 14, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

    Witch Doctor 4 Palin? And just what’s wrong with witch doctors? oo ee oo ah ah ting tang wally wally bing bang.

    There’s nothing that can stop Sarah Palin from reaching the top win or lose in November. She’s simply got too hot a bod. Accept it. (who wouldn’t vote for a palin/paris ticket? )

    The only question Americans have to ask themselves, when facing our economic and political future, is this: Does your chewing gum lose it’s flavor on the bed post overnight?

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

    Hey MV7 that link didn’t work. Try this one:

    [www.will-try-anything-tell-any-lie-cause-somethings-gotta-work.com]

    if that one doesn’t work try:

    [www.you’re-jealous-we’re-not-dot-com-email-us.com]

    That should do it!

    By atllaw191

    October 14, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

    Two words for you: “hanging chads”

    By renny

    October 14, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

    DebbieDoRight

    There’s w-a-a-a-a-a-y too much “kneeling” and getting “served” in that commentary of yours.

    Makes me wonder what you’ve been gagging on lately, sweetheart. (c-ack, c-ack, c-ack…)

    By Goober

    October 14, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

    Easy on the governer Palin, she is a fine moose of a woman.

    That witch doctor is made-up! The Governor believes in moonshine and huntin!

    Ya-see Palin is made of good stock! McSeedy is one to watch, I just dont truth him sometimes!

    Oh well ACORN is illegal all the time! We cannot afford to have people registar and not vote!

    I mean Mickey Mouse will not be able to vote because we have a MM in california,orlando,georgia heck MM is all over the world!

    What is a Saxby? Is that a chickin franchise?

    By Analchord

    October 14, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

    Nicely played, Debbie-do-right (of the mountees, I hope).

    By getalife

    October 14, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

    BREAKING: McCain Transition Chief Lobbied For Saddam Hussein.

    Sure John, bring up Ayers in the debate tomorrow.

    By Irishspacemonk

    October 14, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

    You’re an idiot if you think the left has a monopoly on scare tactics…who’s trying to scare voters by suggestion Obama is a terrorist. WTF? Or the fact that Democrats can’t lead on national security? Your nothing but a scumbag Republican, and I think what really scares you as that you don’t matter any more.

    By Democrat Supporter

    October 14, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

    BOO GOT SHOT!!!

    BOO GOT SHOT!!!

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

    Renny: I’ve been gagging on Repuglican bull$h!t. Same as everyone else.

    By whyvote

    October 14, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

    Ragnar, (sigh) Thomas Sowell is my hero too. How I wish he could be our first African-American president.

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

    Why thank you Anal C. — I’m your number one Fan, (picture Kathy Bates saying that in the scene from “Misery”) — although I promise not to tie you up and make you write bad porn while me and the pig, (Palin in lipstick), play in the snow.

    By Peter

    October 14, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

    Hey Goofball………By BS Aplenty ………..

    Church and State are separate in AMERICA…..did you get the Memo ?

    It never has mattered what religion the President has been, except with the Ultra Right, Conservative Nuts, called REPUBLICAN’S.

    In fact wasn’t Kennedy the FIRST Catholic President in the USA ?

    Does anyone even care what the other president’s religious choices have been, can you name the Religions of past Presidents ?

    I guess from YOUR point of view …….. it does matter………………….after all Republican’s in general are not a tolerant Group, and pretty Bigoted in general…!

    Republican’s are Real quick to mix Politics and Religion………!!!!!!

    Kind of like Fanatical MUSLIMS…….!!!!!!!

    By DebbieDoRight

    October 14, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

    Why is it that every time Bush opens his mouth the market sinks? Can’t someone tell him to be quiet?! My 401K and other investments look bad enough already!!!!

    By Keep it real!

    October 14, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

    Let’s keep it real,

    Politics as we know is going to the gutter! The Democrats have decide not to let the Republicans get away with nothing and now we have political war!

    I hope no one is exposing their children to this blame fest!

    To see adults on both sides constantly telling lies and skewing the truth about each other is a disgrace to our society!

    We need to rise above this win at any cost attitude!

    Why is this acceptable? What is going on in America that we make so many horrible statements about each other?

    WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GROW?

    Jim, I want you to start first with a column that we can discuss with-out lies attached to it!

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

    Oh what a beating the repukes are gonna git on 11/4/8….Oh what a beating….

    By Copyleft

    October 14, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

    By the way, I do congratulate Mr. Wooten for acknowledging that he’s afraid of President Obama and the Democrats.

    It’s been well established that conservatives scurry away from good ideas like cockroaches from a kitchen light… and for pretty much the same reason, fear of discovery.

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

    Fire Wooten NOW…Save the ajc, Fire Little Idiot Jimmy Woodenhead, the biggot….

    By Republicans R Crooks

    October 14, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

    Well, the wife is grilling some ribeye steaks fer dinner, so ah gotta go now, but please, in my name, beat a republican senseless tomorrow….

    By Demi

    October 14, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

    That may not come as surprise to some of you but Obama was not a bystander for ACORN. He was in court trying to help the radical organization in a lawsuit. Ayers were the radical that has helped organize and run ACORN. He worked with Obama.

    Dusty you are trying too hard sweetie.

    Actually, Fox News really isn’t all too bad as I thought…some times you gotta read the good and bad, about your candidate.

    I watched the Nixon story last night…I see why a lot of my follow Repubs loved that dude…As crazy as he was.

    By Dusty

    October 14, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

    Well, lil’ Dem kiddies, looks like teacher let you out late for recess. Go smear mud on the fence and holler “Teacher is a dumbo! Teacher is a bad dog! Teacher is crosseyed!!

    You know. All those smart things like you kiddies say. And Lil’ Debbie leads. She who gave up her cup cakes and stopped by to play in the mud.

    Hey, there’s another playground over at Bookies The Man. You children will meet lotsa new friends over there whose limited vocabulary is much like your own. Go play with them sometimes.

    Now behave and NO slipping up and saying something intelligent. Teacher couldn’t stand the shock. She’s kinda used to your blubbering. So are the rest of us.

    Mrs. Manners will be here tomorrow to see what she can do. Please wear a clean shirt and don’t forget the pants. Now, scat!!

    By DCDawg

    October 14, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

    “Four More Years!” “Four More Years!”

    The AP reported today that the federal budget deficit soared to $454.8 billion in 2008 as a housing collapse and efforts to combat the economic slowdown pushed the tide of government red ink to the highest level in history. The Bush administration said Tuesday the deficit for the budget year that ended Sept. 30 was more than double the $161.5 billion recorded in 2007.

    It surpassed the previous record of $413 billion set in 2004. Economists predicted a far worse number next year as the costs of the government’s rescue of the financial system and the economic hard times hit the government’s balance sheet. Some analysts believe that next year’s deficit could easily top $700 billion, giving the next president a formidable challenge.

    When Reagan took office in 1981, the national debt stood at $995 billion. Twelve years later, by the end of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, it had exploded to $4 trillion. Reagan was a “B” grade movie actor and a doddering, probably clinically senile president, but he was a sheer genius at rewarding his friends by saddling other people with debts.

    Bill Clinton reversed Reagan’s course, raising taxes on the wealthy, and lowering them for the working and middle classes. This produced the longest sustained economic expansion in American history. Importantly, it also produced budgetary surpluses allowing the government to begin paying down the crippling debt begun under Reagan.

    In 2000, Clinton’s last year, the surplus amounted to $236 billion. The forecast ten year surplus stood at $5.6 trillion. It was the last black ink America would see for decades, perhaps forever.

    Yeah, let’s have four more years of those fiscally conservative republicans.

    By Peter

    October 14, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

    Speaking of teacher Dusty…….You had better check out the kids voting Polls…….

    They have Never been Wrong in 40 years……..

    So much for a Republican in the White House after this years election !

    Kids’ poll predicts president 3:15

    Every four years, the Scholastic presidential poll asks kids to vote.

    For the past 40 years, the result has been correct.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/14/kids.poll.president.cnn

    Watch the video Dusty………. See what the AMERICAN Children SAY !

    By Stf08

    October 14, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

    The last defendant in East Chicago’s vote fraud investigation has been sentenced to three weeks of community service.

    Utility security manager Terrance Lay was convicted of collecting someone else’s absentee ballot in East Chicago’s 2003 mayoral election, a race so riddled with fraud that the Indiana Supreme Court ordered a do-over.

    26 city and county employees and 20 other people were found guilty.

    The last defendant in East Chicago’s vote fraud investigation has been sentenced to three weeks of community service.

    Utility security manager Terrance Lay was convicted of collecting someone else’s absentee ballot in East Chicago’s 2003 mayoral election, a race so riddled with fraud that the Indiana Supreme Court ordered a do-over.

    26 city and county employees and 20 other people were found guilty.

    Even though most of the sentences were light, Attorney General Steve Carter says the convictions send a clear message. He says there have been no allegations of vote fraud since the investigation began.

    The 46 convictions include two East Chicago city councilmen, five police officers, two fire department employees, 17 more city or county workers, and three precinct committeemen.

    Lake County is talking about expanding early voting to handle an expected record turnout in the presidential election. Carter says the county won’t be under any special scrutiny.

    By Stop Pretending!

    October 14, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

    Hi,

    My name is John McCain. Let me tell you about my good friend Mr. Oliver North.

    North came into the public spotlight due to his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which he was the chief coordinator of the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua. He was responsible for the establishment of a covert network used for the purposes of aiding the Contras.North admitted shredding government documents when the Iran Contra scandal became public. North admitted shredding all documents relating to his contra and Iranian activities.During Manuel Noriega’s trial in 1991, pilot Floyd Carlton testified that his smuggling operation was flying weapons to the Contras at the same time he was flying dope to the United States. When Carlton’s lawyer asked about Oliver North’s knowledge of these flights, federal prosecutors vehemently objected, and U.S. judge William Hoeveler became angry. “Just stay away from it,” the judge snapped, refusing to allow any more questions on the topicAfter studying the involvement of Contras and U.S. officials with illegal arms running and drug trafficking, the commission recommended that former ambassador Lewis Tambs, CIA station chief Joe Fernandez, and Lt. Col. Oliver North be forever denied entry in Costa Rica, a recommendation adopted by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.

    Ain’t Ollie a great guy? You betcha!

    By MikeB

    October 14, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

    McCain’s Opening line at the debate tomorrow night( After giving appropriate thanks to the mod and ppl. hosting):

    I was trying to avoid this, I was trying to set an example of good campaign conduct, but after the comments made by yourself and your surrogates over the time period from the last debate, to this one, the gloves are coming off………..

    Tonite I would like to share in detail my economic plan with the American people. I will discuss why it is the best plan for Americans who are have in the past, and will contribute to the welfare of this great country.

    I will talk about what it takes to stand on your own 2 feet and lead. The experience required the judgement neccesary, and the intestinal fortitude that will be needed by our next President.

    I will provide examples of why I have it, and Senator Obama is still in search of these qualities.

    Lastly I will introduce my campaign team, and let you know where they came from with the roles they played there… I will offer insight as to how I came to believe what I do, who influenced me both individually and as a group, and why it is best for America.

    I will also do the mainstream media’s job for them, and do the same for Senator Obama as another example of my many years of service to the American people. You may not want to hear it, but it will be the truth.

    I know it will neve happen like this because the questions will not follow that general direction, but I would be great if McCain at least says this with the ending that “this is what I would like to share, what ground the questions cover, will be up to the moderator.

    By DMcI

    October 15, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

    To think that in 1996, I voted 5 voters behind my Great-Great Uncle who has been dead since 1963. he address on the Poll List was that of the cemetery. And I was the one removed from the polling place because I was questioning that individual’s right to vote and asking to meet a dead man. When reported to GA Secretary of State and local voting officials, nothing has been done as far as I know. This voter was registered as a Republican in a predominately Republican North Georgia county. How many more are around?

    By Peter

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

    Poor Jim…His Blog won’t open so far today………

    It must be all that Great Depression talk………

    I guess he is talking about his Party after the Elections……

    Don’t worry WRONGS….you all can double up on your meds !

    By IndependenceDay

    October 15, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

    I agree, no ID, no vote, but beyond that, your column Mr. Wooten is pure rubbish. John McCain attended the ACORN assembly in 2006 and gave the organization his full endorsement. Now, talk about scare tactics - when those who attend Palin and McCain political rallies yell out “Kill him” and “terrorist”, and Palin and McCain fail to rebuke this behavior immediately, Palin and McCain become accessories to the crime of inciting violence. Americans can see this, and they are appalled. That is one reason why Obama is up double digits with less than three weeks to election day. McCain and Palin scare the bejeebers out of most of us in this country. Mr. Wooten. Obama is the voice of calm and positive action.

    By Newly registered voters beware

    October 15, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

    Just wait until a good majority of newly registered voters get to the polls and there information has not been entered into the computers because the repugs cannot figure out where all these black and hispanic voters came from in their counties and cities. This will be a story soon enough… I know first hand of a county and its higher ups that are taking their sweet time entering boxes upon boxes of newly registered voters because they just don’t understand where all the blacks are coming from. Thank goodness you have someone willing to work overtime and on her weekends to make sure she can get every one of them registered to vote. I doubt she will be paid for that time. Repugs are so scared of the unknown and so unwilling to adapt to change. Change is coming whether you like it or not. What will Karen Handle do about these voters not being registered in time when it comes to light? This will be a major eyesore on Georgia yet again!

    By Newly registered voters beware

    October 15, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

    Just wait until a good majority of newly registered voters get to the polls and there information has not been entered into the computers because the repugs cannot figure out where all these black and hispanic voters came from in their counties and cities. This will be a story soon enough… I know first hand of a county and its higher ups that are taking their sweet time entering boxes upon boxes of newly registered voters because they just don’t understand where all the blacks are coming from. Thank goodness you have someone willing to work overtime and on her weekends to make sure she can get every one of them registered to vote. I doubt she will be paid for that time. Repugs are so scared of the unknown and so unwilling to adapt to change. Change is coming whether you like it or not. What will Karen Handle do about these voters not being registered in time when it comes to light? This will be a major eyesore on Georgia yet again!

    By Newly registered voters beware

    October 15, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

    Just wait until a good majority of newly registered voters get to the polls and there information has not been entered into the computers because the repugs cannot figure out where all these black and hispanic voters came from in their counties and cities. This will be a story soon enough… I know first hand of a county and its higher ups that are taking their sweet time entering boxes upon boxes of newly registered voters because they just don’t understand where all the blacks are coming from. Thank goodness you have someone willing to work overtime and on her weekends to make sure she can get every one of them registered to vote. I doubt she will be paid for that time. Repugs are so scared of the unknown and so unwilling to adapt to change. Change is coming whether you like it or not. What will Karen Handle do about these voters not being registered in time when it comes to light? This will be a major eyesore on Georgia yet again!

    By SlickWillie

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

    Bring back the poll tax.

    By A different Side

    October 15, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

    Ok I want to shed a little light. As a person that worked for the State vital records you would be amaze at the number of georgian that have NEVER had a birthcertificate. Either cause they where born before midwives had to become certified or they were born at home and the information was never sent to the registars office.

    My point is I worked there and still know people that work there and they are still getting people coming in that have NEVER had birth certificates. This is not just a old thing this is also people as young as 29 years old. Now most of these people are from south georgia.

    Getting a delayed birth certificate is not a easy process by any stretch of the means most have to come 3 to 4 times to get the proper evidence to create a birth certificate.

    I believe that this is one of the reasons why there is such a big fit over this.

    Just one aspect you should consider.

    By Cal

    October 15, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

    I have to admit it but the poll tax might get rid of some of this fraudulent voting.

    By Love Reagan

    October 15, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

    You should be required to produce a current IRS 1040 and two pieces of Id, one with a photo, in order to vote. It is easy to vote for the big spender, when he is not spending your money.

    By ND

    October 15, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

    “and are, furthermore, too disengaged with the world beyond Jerry Springer to have a clue about the issues or the candidates.”

    I missed the part of the Constitution where it said you have to watch Fox News in order to have voter eligibility.

    And Republicans accuse Democrats of being elitists?

    By citizen

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

    Well, Rep. John Lewis has put the McCain/Palin campaign on notice. No more crtitcal remarks will be made by these two of the Democratic ticket or you will surely be called down and taken out behind the barn for a good lashing. Yes sir, from now on let’s just let Rep. Lewis conduct political campaigns and keep one side in check!

    By stephen

    October 16, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

    OK Jim, McCain “wins” in your head. The polls will indicate if you’re right in the next few days.

    By GAPeach

    October 16, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

    Jim Wooten hits it right on target. Mr. Danneskjöld is dead on with regard to Obama. Obama takes the focus off of him by constantly saying . .we need to focus on the big issue, the economy. I think the big issue is him!!!
    Has anyone noticed that ever since the Civil Rights Act was passed that this country has been sliding down a slippery slope in every aspect. Take education the US has slipped in the world to 29th in education. Why because we have had to lower our standards in order to accommodate minorities . . and this is true in every sense BTW, Obama is … not African-American but is Mulatto…a term used to describe a person with one white parent and one black parent, or a person whose ancestry is a mixture of black and white. So all you ya-whos who think the first African-American is going to be elected President - WRONG!

    By T

    October 16, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

    ACORN has become the scapegoat in this disheartening, political mud slinging initiated by the McCain campaign. The fact is that ACORN has a very stringent screening mechanism for screening its voter registrations. Each state government (Nevada, Ohio, etc) is delivered two stacks of registration cards, those which have been validated by an independant screening agency which ACORN hires in each state, and the cards which are clearly, individually flagged as not verifiable. States specify that ALL cards, both verified and unverified, must be delivered to the respective state governments. These allegations of fruad by ACORN are nothing more than ignorance of the facts regarding ACORN’s operations.

    By Judith E. Barnes

    October 18, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

    Mr. Wooten:

    Let me tell you what disturbs me about your columns regarding Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are Mr. Wooten. You are a white male American and if I could truly believe that you know how to practice objectivity and know how to disallow yourself to carry within you myths from the past; then I could take your writings as honest and objective.

    I am an immigrant and chose to become a citizen in a country that I have lived since I was 17 years old. I am truly saddened and honestly hurt that in 2008, white Americans still manage to hold onto perceptions, and myths about a race of people that have consistently defied the white man’s definition of who you think we are and who you think we should be. The white man’s mythical, albeit negative, thinking regarding the black race has not changed at its core. It is that very core that is beginning to show itself and its very stench has recently permeated my nostrils with its elements of hatred and intolerance.

    If I could believe that you saw Senator Obama as a man, fully entitled to do what he is doing. If I could truly believe that you acknowledge that he is a brilliant man separate from his color, then I could read your columns as to how ‘right’ Senator McCain is for this job and I would do so without having to choke back tears.

    My question to you Mr. Wooten, is when did white people make a decision that you are all superior to black people? Did you awaken one morning in 1950 and come to that realization? Or was it 2000? Or was it 2007 when Barack Obama had the ‘audacity to hope,’ that he could venture to seek election to the presidency of the United States.

    To say that Mr. McCain is the right one because he is a war hero or because he has been in politics for almost his entire life is not necessarily that which entitles him for the position. Ah, there we go, entitles, that is what it seems like to me, Senator McCain is entitled. Is the fact that his family owned slaves in these United States also an element in his life that makes him entitled sir?

    I am a psychologist and I know human nature pretty well, and I know that Senator Obama is no saint and I am not saying he is supremely qualified in all areas. And I would not say that Senator McCain is son to the devil and has no qualifications. But I will say this, though I have very little respect for Senator McCain, I pray for him right along with praying for Senator Obama, this entire nation and the world.

    Yes sir, I as a black accomplished woman would easily vote for Senator McCain if I thought he even regarded me as a viable human being. And I would allow your columns to influence me, if I truly believed that you and so many other whites (especially males), wrote as fair decent individuals who looked truly at the content of a man’s character, his level of intelligence and not at the color of his skin.

    The ads that Senator Obama unfortunately are running in reaction to the racial diatribe that Senator McCain and Governor Palin are spouting will forever register ignominy on the shores of this land.

    Sarah Palin is an embarrassment to intelligent, hard-working women and I truly believe that Hillary Clinton quivers everytime she sees and hears this arrogant woman (that McCain has employed to bark all over the country) spout her inaccuracies, her plain downhome misinformation and racist taunts, veiled though she might think they are.

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