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DEL.ICIO.USMy advice to McCain
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
John McCain starts the new week down in the polls and with a base that’s growing antsy about the mixed messages he’s sending voters.
His newly aggressive efforts to highlight Barack Obama’s association with Wiliam Ayers, the 60s radical is useful, but some Republicans are questioning whether such efforts turn off the Independents and moderate women who are needed to close the gap.
The Wall Street Journal has done a marvelous job in unraveling Obama’s promises on tax cuts. “There are several sleights of hand,” the newspaper reports, “butg the most creative is to redefine the meaning of ‘tax cut.”
What it amounts to is a huge new welfare program represented as tax cuts. Now, as the Tax Foundation reports, 44 percent of all filer, or 63 million, have no tax liability and under Obama’s tax proposals by 2011, that would grow by 10 million. The cost, meanwhile, would skyrocket from $647 billion to $1.054 trillion, according to researchers. Those filers get checks back. It’s a huge welfare program and is another of those creative ways that liberals grow government by hiding its expansion — or in the case of Obama, by misrepresenting it as tax breaks for the middle class.
My advice to McCain is to let Governor Palin take on Obama on the character issues. He should focus on educating Americans on the deceit in Obama’s tax proposals, the impact of his health care proposals and the contributions Obama’s party has made to the economic woes the country is facing.
That’s my advice. What’s yours?
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By GOPs got to go
October 13, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain is to get that crazy b!tch off the ticket. She is what is sending independents to Obama. I do not give a crap about who “Our Sarah” fired. I do however care a lot about her stance on abortion, gun control, and the environment and her seeming lack of ability to communicate without a script to follow. I have a big problem with her declaring her being on “God’s side”. I mean, that can be interpreted in many ways. Who is to say she is not planning her own little version of Revelations, waiting to be raptured. KEEP* YOURGOD OUT OF *OUR WHITEHOUSE!!!! Benjamin Franklin“Lighthouses are more useful than churches,” Thomas Jefferson: “Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.” John Adams”This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”
By edward_bernays
October 13, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
I agree with your strategy. Today I Obama told a plumber at an event “When you spread the wealth around, everybody wins.”First of, what wealth?” Secondly, I’ve seen with Fannie and Freddie and the abuse of the community reinvestment act what government does in the economy. We can’t survive more of that. As for Ayers, I think if women voters knew his plans for turning public schools into indoctrination camps, and that he thinks Chavez has a fine educational plan, they would have seriously wonder about a candidate whom Ayers tapped to dispense educational reform money in Chicago.
By Jan
October 13, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this
Forget Ayers. McCain needs to “show me the money”. Trace the route from the CRA to ACORN to Freddie and Fannie. Show the Dems (Maxine W. et al) defending the system. Show the roots of the housing credit crisis.
By Orlando
October 13, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
My advise to McCain is to give up all the negative ads. Obama is going to win, so in the long run this will make McCain looks like an old bigot. He has no chance especially with that ol hag on his arm, and Sarah Falin.
By Cherokee
October 13, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
My advice to you, Mr. Wooten, is to get your information from someplace other than the WSJ editorial pages.
Obama will cut my taxes; McCain, through his tax on health care benefits, will raise them.
The choice is clear.
By Steven d.
October 13, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
I agree with GOP’s got to go, I was going to vote for McCain(and I have never voted for a Republican in my life) until he picked her, stupid move.
By SayNo2McCain
October 13, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
MY Advice: Prepare to accept defeat graciously and have a private jet ready to take Sarah back to Alaska, where she belongs.
Also your advice to McCain is a little late, because he has already used little Miss Sarah as his attack dog on Obama. The attacks by Palin is why McCain had to clean up the teams acts on Friday.
I was very proud of Senator McCain when he corrected that little old lady about Obama being an Arab. However, I was disappointed that he didn’t correct her a little furher by letting her know that she does not have to be afraid of Arabs, as well. This whole thing about fearing an entire group of people is just plain hateful and crazy.
By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST
October 13, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
Article about McCain’s man behind the Obama’s a Moslem lies, Since he hates Jews maybe, maybe Palin should start a OBAMA’S A JEW CAMPAIGN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13martin.html?ref=politics
By Peter
October 13, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
My advice would be to use Spell Check when you write Jim…….
Be honest for a change Jim……….stop telling the world Sarah Palin is a real choice for VP or President, after McCain mind goes Blank !
By Churchill's Mon
October 13, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
Jim you have to do a better job with Ms Palin.. those liberals on the Washington Post gave her 3 paragraphs… I am thinking about giving up on Auburn for the year, is there another college in Georgia other than UGA that has a team?
Alaska’s Family Feud Meddlesome Sarah Palin does not come off well.
IN THE scheme of things — that is to say, in the larger context of a financial meltdown — the special counsel’s report concluding that Sarah Palin engaged in an unethical abuse of power in trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as an Alaska state trooper is a relatively minor event. But the report nonetheless offers a revealing and relevant portrait of the governor. It shows her and her husband pursuing a personal vendetta against the trooper, Mike Wooten, despite repeated warnings that they were impermissibly intruding into internal — and already concluded — disciplinary issues. Likewise, Ms. Palin’s decision to repudiate her earlier pledge to cooperate fully with the inquiry does not offer assurance about how she would conduct herself as vice president. The McCain-Palin campaign’s response to the inquiry has been internally contradictory — simultaneously assailing the investigation as a partisan witch hunt and mischaracterizing as vindication the report’s finding that Ms. Palin was within her rights as governor to remove the commissioner who had refused to act against her former brother-in-law.
The amount of attention that the newly elected governor, her husband and her subordinates — her personnel director, attorney general and chief of staff, among others — devoted to getting Mr. Wooten fired was extraordinary. Within a few weeks of Ms. Palin’s inauguration, her newly installed public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan, was summoned to a meeting with the governor’s husband, Todd Palin, at which the “First Gentleman” pressed Mr. Monegan to reexamine the already concluded disciplinary case against Mr. Wooten. The governor herself called Mr. Monegan, e-mailed him and met with him in person to discuss her unhappiness with Mr. Wooten’s continuation on the force. Equally extraordinary was the Palins’ persistence in the face of warnings that their intervention could run afoul of personnel rules and risked creating precisely the kind of public uproar that ensued.
Ms. Palin’s refusal to cooperate with investigator Stephen Branchflower reflects poorly on her. So, too, does Ms. Palin’s mischaracterization of the report as finding that there was “no unlawful or unethical activity on my part” and “no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired.” In fact, Mr. Branchflower concluded that Ms. Palin “knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired.” It’s unfortunate that Ms. Palin does not understand — or chooses not to acknowledge — the seriousness of the mess she helped create.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
My advice to the Idiot of the AJC: RETIRE, you obsolete,ignorant dinosaur.
By Ms. M.Thomas
October 13, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this
John McCain is so out of touch. He is reaching for any and everything to bring Obama down. Rehashing Rev. Wright, Ayers and Palin trying to make it seem like if you vote for Obama you vote for abortion. Abortion was made leagal DECADES ago, it has nothing to do with Obama. What did Bush do about abortion the last 8 years he was in the White House? NOTHING! Obama/Biden O8! Enough Said!
By Alvin
October 13, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
WHAT IF……
Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?
…..think about it.
Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit?
Ponder the following:
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama: Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations. Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden: University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Vs
John McCain: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin: Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study University of Idaho - 2 semesters – journalism Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.
By cara
October 13, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain would be to drop Sarah. The people that love her are the racist rednecks of the counrty and it shows. She makes the campaign trail look like a KKK rally.
By GOPs got to go
October 13, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Could Jay please take a picture of you handing him that dollar on Nov 5th? Now talk about a Kodak moment……..
By reader110
October 13, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain - retire. You’re finished. And send Ms. Mooseburger back to Alaska where she belongs - that is, if they’ll have her. If not, perhaps Palin could move to Russia - after all, it’s so close to Alaska it’s almost like another state, right?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. I don’t have serious disagreement with Jim’s core advice, to point out everything wrong with Obama’s constantly shifting proposals, except that the unfocused message will cause the sheep’s eyes to glaze. Unfortunately McCain has shunted Phil Gramm to the sidelines, and he was the only player in either camp with any measurable economic literacy.
(1) Since President Bush has destroyed al Qaeda, nobody cares about the victory over terrorism. Or if they care, they mostly answer, “yes, but what have you done for me lately.” War against evil people is the Republican strong point, but victory obviates the need for further effort.
Quote of the Day, by Martti Ahtisaari: In the early 1990s, he ran the U.N. mission to Iraq after the first Gulf War, watching Saddam Hussein’s repression up close. Twelve years of frustrated diplomacy later, and against the grain of conventional European opinion, Mr. Ahtisaari found himself defending the U.S. invasion, the absence of a nuclear or biological weapons program notwithstanding. “Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction,” he said.
(2) Magna Sarah may be the one to tackle the gravely-flawed democrat economic plan; I think that is beyond Captain Queeg’s capacity. She should do so (a) by tying Obama’s Marxism to his convoluted plan to complicate the tax code, and (b) by laying out the case against the democrats on FNMA and FHLMC. The democrat corruption on FNMA and FHLMC are the core causes of that element of the current financial panic, and she should have no reservation about saying so. Why France is in, and will remain in, worse shape than the US, is found in this revealing quote by Nicolas Sarkozy: “Le laisser-faire, c’est fini.” Sarah is thus capable of distinguishing American republicans from internationalists.
James Freeman tells a funny story: “Yes, we have a verdict on the winner of the vice presidential debate. Clint Eastwood was speaking at an event hosted by New Yorker magazine. Needless to say, lots of Obama fans in the crowd. And Clint said that it was clear one of the candidates was more truthful. Well, apparently, the crowd thought he was clearly referring to Biden and started cheering. And then he said, “She was great.” Silence descended on the room, apparently, according to the New York Post” report. But I think it’s clear, Clint has rendered his verdict, and doggone it, she was excellent.”
(3) Captain Queeg needs to talk about the future, and energy is the place. More nukes, more drilling, forget about inflating tires. That is a message simple enough that he can carry it, and happily it ties to his beliefs. Always talk about what you know and believe, and that is his winning message.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
Trailer Trash Sarah would park a double wide trailer with a fancy foldout on the wh lawn…and include a pora-a-potty fer the outhouse experience….Send her to a prison in Alaska, fer life….
By Ga Values
October 13, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
It’s that time of they year again, time for NPR to ask for your money. Here in Atlanta we are blessed with WABE & for the last 5 years I help them with pledges. Wednsday Oct. 15 afternoon is my time this fall, please call & give generously. Yes, Captine Freedom, Wabe will take your used gold, diamonds & surplus BMW’s.
By Peter
October 13, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
Where is by AmVET TODAY……..
I am wondering if he heard Clark Howard saying this was a wonderful time to buy stocks for young folks………….. and those who are putting stocks in their retirement accounts ?
By Adam Savage
October 13, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
I would explain that any “tax relief,” given to middle and working class people will be a wash, or a net loss. Tax hikes on business with be paid by those middle and working class people, as business passes their tax hike on to consumers.
Listen, here’s why I’m voting for McCain: He has an old-fashioned stateman’s deep belief in service for the public good. I believe Obama is a Hollywood sequel, “Slick Willie 2.” Second, I believe McCain will really use the bully pulpit of the presidency to drive U.S. leadership in development, manufacturing and selling of alternative energy options, securing our economic future for generations.
By deegee
October 13, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Let Sarah Palin, the self-proclaimed pit bull smear Obama and rally the base. While the electoral map is turning from red to purple to blue, McChange is most likely thinking past November and pondering his political legacy. At his age, how much is he going to accomplish in government going forward? Does he really want to be remembered as the loser of the nastiest, mud-slinging political campaign in modern history? Is that going to be his legacy? What does Sarah Palin have to lose? Not much.
By zeke
October 13, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
I agree. Let Palin be the one who goes after Obama’s socialist liberal anti USA issues. McCain can destroy Obama if he can present the falacies of Obama’s tax lies and other socialist proposals! Problem is, like I believe Thomas Jefferson and before him an English official in the 1400’ or 1500’s said, “When the populace figures out it can vote themselves more and more from the government, they will vote for those promising the government dole”. WE HAVE REACHED THAT POINT, AND, IF NOT CORRECTED BY DECIDING WHO CAN VOTE ON WHAT ISSUES WITHOUT THEIR HANDS OUT, THE COUNTRY AS KNOWN WILL BE LOST! AND, THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE! READ IT!
By Ga Values
October 13, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html?inline=nyt-per
By Frost
October 13, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain is to let Governor Palin take on Obama on the character issues.
**WRONG AS USUAL, AS JOHN MCCAIN**She does not have character herself, seeing as we did that she is ethically challenged.DICK CHENEY will certainly look like Father Christams in comparison if she were to make it to the White House.
By Ga Values
October 13, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Paul Krugman who writes for the NYT & teaches where I got my degree in Economics, just got a Nobel Prize. Good for him I thing he is a world class mind & apparently I’m not alone. Here’s a link to his this morning colume..
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13krugman.html?ref=opinion
By Frost
October 13, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
John McCain starts the new week down in the polls an understatement ofcourse. He has been trailing for a month!!
Ur article is unusually short today.The writing is on the wall.Im glad u see that!!!!!
By GOPs got to go
October 13, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this
I believe McCain will die in office and “Our Sarah” will start shooting any nay-sayers from a helicopter.
By deegee
October 13, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
And it is ironic that McChange found himself on the defense after a couple of town hall meetings. These meetings were supposed to be his strong suit. All it takes is a couple of his riled up followers to ask a couple of questions to throw his campaign off message. It doesn’t take long for the straight talk express to come off the tracks after Palin whips their base up into a frenzy.
By pj
October 13, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
I did not read all the posts, but I agree with the ones that I did read that think Palin is the deal killer. I was on the fence. The truth is that Obama could, indeed, have a little more experience. But Palin’s politics are outside of the mainstream. In fact, as a woman with a brain, I am offended by her “cutsey” way of getting around answering serious questions. I also find her race baiting on the campaign trail to be profoundly offensive. Finally, the thing that frightens me most is that, if elected, this woman, who appears to shun logical thought in favor of some type of folksy, home-spun showcasing, would be one heartbeat away from being in charge of it all. I cannot honestly, even in my worst nightmares, believe that this is what anyone TRULY wants.
By DJ
October 13, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
Jim - why don’t you just give McSame the advice you follow yourself: grossly simplify and distort everything to favor the right wing agenda, downplay the complete failure of the republican party to have a domestic agenda beyond protecting fetuses and school text book publishers, and care only about 51% of America. That’s the kind of leadership we need, and that’s the kind we’d get if America listens to you or John McSame.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
NEWS FLASH: Ragnar Danneskjöld IS THE NEW FAKE ID OF THE FORMER CLOWN CALL JMBLAW….PASS IT ON.
By AmVet
October 13, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain is to let Governor Palin take on Obama on the character issues.
That’s my advice. What’s yours?
That yellow journalists and faux conservatives should not “advise” him on ANYTHING.
He’s dead because you BushCo loyalists never wanted him to win the nomination in the first place. And then idly watched and tacitly supported the current administration’s approval ratings descending into the unfathomable range.
At least 75% of all Americans now disapprove of the Republicans, their failed administration, their repudiated ideology and their putrid efforts at effective governance.
And you loons think there is no connection?
You killed him, now go bury him…
Peter, good to see you again.
Re: our conversation from last week - I simply felt that buying any stocks, even with the intention of long term holding - was exceptionally risky.
And those stocks all took a horrific beating after the advice you received (and shared) to buy. They may rebound all the way back in the short term future, but that too seems unlikely.
The historical 8% benchmark for returns seems like it will be on hiatus for awhile. Have we hit the bottom yet? Who knows? But it seems that if there are ANY incidents worldwide, such as attacks, natural disasters, etc… these convulsions will continue.
In terms of dollar cost averaging, yes now is a good time to keep buying. But trying to load up on bargains is IMHO dangerous.
But I’m no professional trader, not a broker and certainly no economist!
Good day everyone - off to pay for the bailout…
By Copyleft
October 13, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
Laissez-faire is dead. Too bad it did so much damage on the way down, but at least we can safely ignore it as a proven failure from this point forward.
As for McLame: Why give advice to a sacrificial candidate?
By A Realist
October 13, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain: give up.
By Shrugging Atlas
October 13, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Jim, you have shown your true colors once again. You don’t want to actually talk about the issues, and you don’t want your candidate to talk about the issues. Your adivice is for the McSame ticket to talk about what’s wrong with Obama’s plans, and who he “associated” with in the past. This would have been your chance to step up and tell your candidate to talk about how good his own plans are. But he can’t, and you don’t want him to because you know his plans are worthless.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
Jim Wooten, obviously you have upset the livid liberals as usual. They cannot stand the idea of their lord-come-lately losing. But you did ask for our opinions.
McCain should go (as the WSJ has done) and continually point out that “tax switches” are not tax cuts. He might also remind folks how “well” a Congress run by Democrats would be for a second time with a Democratic President and his aversion not only to real tax cuts but his veiled aversion to the military.
There is NO way I can picture Obama protecting America. I think terrorists would have the same feelings and “reve” up. In no time, Americans would be reminded how they were once protected by the good sense of George W. Bush.
Let Sarah Palin take care of the bad character traits of Obama. He has displayed them ever since he entered higher education. I don’t know whether he was influenced in a muslim grade school but he certainly was not an “all-American boy”( an American expression, not racism) in advanced education. Even later, his companions and his actions run contrary to most Americans. His wife has already expressed her feelings that she had finally found “one good thing in America”. I do not think it was Obama. Let Sarah Palin explain once more what it means to love America.
McCain is our hope in this debacle. There is the only one way I can define an American president like Obama: Disaster!!
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Investors’ Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT
The Crash: “Why has the market dropped so much?” everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don’t understand?
The freeze-up of the financial system — and government’s seeming inability to thaw it out — are a main concern, no doubt. But more people are also starting to look across the valley, as they say, at what’s in store once this crisis passes.
And right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system that made it all possible.
It isn’t only that the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party is favored to take the White House. It’s that he’ll also have a filibuster-proof Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.
Throw in a media establishment dedicated to the implementation of a liberal agenda, and the smothering of dissent wherever it arises, and it’s no wonder panic has set in.
What is that agenda? It starts with a tax system right out of Marx: A massive redistribution of income — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need — all in the name of “neighborliness,” “patriotism,” “fairness” and “justice.”
It continues with a call for a new world order that turns its back on free trade, has no problem with government controlling the means of production, imposes global taxes to support continents where our interests are negligible, signs on to climate treaties that will sap billions more in U.S. productivity and wealth, and institutes an authoritarian health care system that will strip Americans’ freedoms and run up costs.
All the while, it ensures that nothing — absolutely nothing — will be done to secure a sufficient, terror-proof supply of our economic lifeblood — oil — a resource we’ll need much more of in the years ahead.
The businesses that create jobs and generate wealth are already discounting the future based on what they know about Obama’s plans to raise income, capital gains, dividend and payroll taxes, and his various other economy-crippling policies. Which helps explain why world stock markets have been so topsy-turvy.
But don’t take our word for it. One hundred economists, five Nobel winners among them, have signed a letter noting just that:
“The prospect of such tax-rate increases in 2010 is already a drag on the economy,” they wrote, noting that the potential of higher taxes in the next year or two is reducing hiring and investment.
It was “misguided tax hikes and protectionism, enacted when the U.S. economy was weak in the early 1930s,” the economists remind us, that “greatly increased the severity of the Great Depression.”
We can’t afford to repeat these grave errors.
Yet much of the electorate is determined to vote for the candidate most likely to make them. If he wins, what we consider to be a crisis in today’s economy will be a routine affair in tomorrow’s.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
My advice to McCain: Give up and go home. Jeez, can’t you see when you are beat? My other advice, get ready to receive a buttwhipping.
By DJ
October 13, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
Wooten is a right-wing a##-kissing sycophant (and ideologue) - of course he would think that is exactly how John McSame should play it.
How novel - a yellow journalist suggesting that a politician run on character assassination instead of discussing the issues. So much for the “lib-a-rule media” Jimmy boy.
When will you right-wing apologists admit that the overwhelming evidence, in the press, in the polls, in the actions of the people, is saying that after 28 years, we are tired of the same one-note policies pushed by a narrow spectrum of republican ideologues (who don’t even represent the majority of the republican party, much less america) and we want something different. the republicans have been offering the exact same thing for 28 years and this year is no different.
America is saying “no thanks” but “the base” is just oblivious. You are going to get your heads handed to you on election day and you’ll spend the next four years alternating between making excuses for why McLame LOST and doing everything you possibly can to paralyze the Obama administration. Real F’n patriots you all are. Real Americans.
I can’t wait for Obama’s first supreme court nomination chance. Hey Wooten and all you right-wing knuckle-draggers: it’s pronounced “NEW-clear Option”, not “Nuk-U-ler Option”. How do you spell p-a-y-b-a-c-k? And that goes for your little lap-dog Joe Liberman, too. Hey Joe - you can kiss your committee power goodbye. You might as well just come out of that little closet you are hiding in and admit to the world that you are one of the republickers. Or are you ashamed?
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
If anyone does not believe that Democrat Obama would be a disaster, should read the liberal posts here today. Everything from pure hate to scatological comments to plain old distaste for anyone expressing love of country. Obama types???
Yeah, go for it, libs. Show your true colors. Better to show them now for rejection than let Obama run this country like an indoctrination camp for socialism.
By McBush
October 13, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
McCain makes a racist remark!
“We’re going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7,” McCain said of Democratic rival Barack Obama.
That’s obviously a racist remark to the day when African slaves were whipped.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Dusty, no one agrees with you except the other kool-aid drinkers. You know, the same people who told us that W was a great choice. You all have lost all your credibility. You know nothing about what is the right thing to do. Face it, Obama will win mostly because the Republicans have totally screwed up and are being soundly rejected. If you don’t want to accept that then fine, but that is the way lots of elections go. People not only vote FOR someone they also vote AGAINST someone. All you hateful righties can do is scream “socialism” and say we don’t love our country like you do. Blow it out your a$$!
By Al Brazzier
October 13, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
My advise to McCain at this point would be to quickly change his name to……… Mohammed Hussein McCain. He must also announce his intent on implementing Sharia Law to a Nation that wants to keep God out of Congress. I hope that I have your attention.
By steve-o
October 13, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
You all keep saying Obama will be a disaster. Lauren is right you are the same people who told us Bush would be great. Why should we listen to you! There is no way Obama can do worse than Bush. No way!
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this
We are going to wipe republicans from the face of washington dc on 11/4/2008….Landslide for president, the house, and the senate in favor of the democrats…..THEN WE SHOULD BEGIN OPERATION PAY BACK AGAINST OUR FORMER RULERS….Put them all in prison….forever….
By Ga Values
October 13, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Good read for us old Business types who like the facts..
Economic View Got $700 Billion? Sweat the Details
By ALAN S. BLINDER Published: October 11, 2008 THE House of Representatives was against the bailout bill before it was for it. But now it’s the law of the land, and the hard part begins: putting this $700 billion plan into effect under legislative guidelines that are, shall we say, vague. Never has that cliché “the devil is in the details” been more appropriate. The bill that Congress passed was a huge improvement over the embarrassing two-and-a-half-page document that Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, originally submitted. Mr. Paulson requested basically unlimited power with minimal oversight, little accountability and no judicial review.
The law that Congress passed grants him huge authority by, for example, giving only sparse and general guidelines on how the $700 billion is to be used. But it layers on so much oversight and accountability — and, of course, judicial review — that Mr. Paulson’s successor will probably rue the day he inherits the authority.
Even so, the “details” in which “the devil” lurks are many and consequential. I’ll focus on just three.
WHICH ASSETS? The most basic issue is, what kinds of assets should Treasury buy? By law, the government must concentrate on “mortgages and any securities, obligations or other instruments that are based on or related to such mortgages.” But the secretary is also authorized to buy “any other instrument” that he and the Federal Reserve chairman decide “is necessary to promote financial market stability.” That encompasses almost anything. But to simplify a much more complicated reality, the plan includes these broad choices for what the government can buy:
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Whole mortgages and pools of mortgages — the idea being to refinance them into new mortgages that homeowners can afford, thus stemming the tide of foreclosures and consequent fire sales of homes. This is a strategy that I have long favored.
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Mortgage-backed securities and their variants — the idea being to breathe some life into moribund markets that are now dragging down financial institutions. This is the strategy on which Mr. Paulson is widely expected to concentrate. Perhaps for that reason, Congress explicitly instructed him to devote some money — it does not say how much — to the first strategy.
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Equity stakes in ailing banks and other financial businesses — the idea being that many of these institutions need to be recapitalized before they can resume regular lending. This strategy seems to have emerged recently as the favorite of the financier George Soros and the Nobel laureate economists Edmund S. Phelps and Joseph E. Stiglitz, among others. The new law does not explicitly authorize injecting new capital into banks, but it certainly allows it.
These three strategies are not mutually exclusive and, in the end, Treasury will probably do some of each. But how the $700 billion is apportioned matters greatly. My own favorite remains the first. (Disclosure: I have an investment in a fund that would probably profit most from the second approach.)
AT WHAT PRICES? A second critical question is how much Treasury should pay for what it buys. The rescue plan’s operations will not be like buying stocks or bonds of publicly traded companies at observable market prices. Put simply, Treasury has two basic choices.
The first, which I have long favored, is to buy “at market,” or rather as close to market as possible, given that many markets are now dysfunctional. Doing so is the best way to protect taxpayers against loss or chicanery, to avoid favoritism and conflicts of interest, and to render moot the many questions — often highly political — that arise whenever the government starts bestowing gifts on favored sellers. After all, if the government buys assets only at market prices, there are no gifts to bestow.
But buying at market does have two drawbacks. First, it may be applicable only to assets that can be bought at auction — which is how the prices would be determined. Second, it does not directly infuse any new capital into banks. However, if purchases of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities catalyze the restoration of normal markets, banks will reap large indirect benefits.
The other approach is to buy “above market,” which is a backdoor way of recapitalizing banks. To the extent the government follows this route, the names of the sellers become crucial. It is impossible to infuse capital “equally” into every needy financial institution; no one even knows what that means. If the government buys assets at above-market prices, it will have to make numerous decisions about which institutions receive gifts and which do not. Even a saint would have a hard time doing that “right.” And there appears to be an acute shortage of saints in our financial markets.
MINIMIZING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Which brings me to the third big issue: conflicts of interest. Starting from scratch, Treasury must buy, manage and ultimately sell up to $700 billion worth of diverse and complex assets. That’s a larger balance sheet than Lehman Brothers had when it folded, and almost as large as the Federal Reserve had when the crisis started. Because Treasury lacks the staff resources to do the job, it must outsource most of the work to private companies.
Perhaps you’ve noticed how well the Bush administration has outsourced other government functions. But even if Mr. Paulson is the most trustworthy person ever to work for George W. Bush, he faces an insoluble problem: to acquire the necessary expertise, he will have to hire companies with extensive experience in and knowledge of mortgage-related assets.
Now swallow hard and imagine that all these companies and people are 100 percent honest and public-spirited. It is nonetheless true that virtually every one of them has a vested interest in which assets are bought and sold, at what prices, and so on. Conflicts are unavoidable if Treasury hires from “the industry.” But from where else can the expertise come? So we all need to watch the conflict-of-interest policies that Treasury promulgates and follows.
THIS brings me back to the second question. The more the government strays from the sanctuary of buying at market prices, the deeper and more extensive the potential conflicts of interest become.
I’ve already conceded that these purchases cannot be limited to plain-vanilla, auctionable assets. So perfection is unattainable. But as much as humanly possible, the government should buy at fair market prices, for the devil surely lurks in that little “detail.”
Alan S. Blinder is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. He has advised many Democratic politicians
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Right, Jim. I’m gonna listen to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, the one that famously declared those too poor to pay income taxes “Lucky Duckies.”
These guys play it right down the middle!
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
Dusty confuses love of country with love of republicans. No one loves republicans, not even their own spouses and children. Did you know that Republicans are replacing lab rats as experimental animals? There are three reasons for this: 1) Republicans are cheaper than lab rats, 2) There are some things even a rat will not do, and my favorite 3) the lab techs do not become emotionally attached to Republicans the way they do with lab rats.
By JD
October 13, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
An Ohio resident is prepared to testify ACORN registered him to vote a modest 72 times.
ACORN’s defense?
The man is a liar. He only registered 18 times.
And ACORN only registered him 15 times.
Ingenious! ACORN claims to only be 20% of the crook the man has said.
That then is not evidence of voter fraud according to ACORN.
Obama must be so proud!
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
steve-o, We were right. Bush is 100% better than John F Kerry. Next!
By Cherokee
October 13, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Alvin @ 8:51. Brilliant.
Dusty says: “they were once protected by the good sense of George W. Bush”
I realize there’s no chance for intelligent discussion with you Dusty, but do you remember when 9-11 occurred? As I recall it was on Dubya’s watch, after he ignored the Daily Briefing titled “bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US.”
Yeah, he did a wonderful job of protecting us….
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
McBush, @10:10
YOU have made a discriminatory remark about a candidate for the presidency of the USA. You should be assailed for making false statements, using poor judgment and inciting racism. Or should I say, acting like a liberal?
By Thinking Correctly
October 13, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Jim - and first let me preface I hope this doesn’t hurt your feelings, after your recent column about how democrats post remarks on your blog that actually question your conclusions (their nerve!) - but, since you asked, my advice to you would be to keep giving Republicans advice (and I really hope they’ll listen). This will ensure Democrats remain in power for years to come.
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Lauren, Um, I hate to break your wittle heart but we’re not the idiots drinking the Savior Obama Hussien kool aid like you are. Go sell stupid somewhere else.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
You folks who use this blog to cut and paste lenghtly articals are blowhards and bores. Give us a break!
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
Republicans R Crooks, I’d love to see you come to my house and try to put me in jail because I voted for someone whom you don’t like. I have three numbers for you. 3-5-7.
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Lauren, Those articles were meant for people who can actually read. Now go back to your coloring books and let the grownups chat. Give us a break!
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Dear Lauren and other Obama indoctrinates,
I had rather drink KoolAid than Poison Punch offered by liberals. Obviously you have already been brain washed. Just here from Venezuela?
By Keeping It Real
October 13, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Alvin,
Great post. If Obama had McCain’s rap sheet, he would be behind by 20 points. It says it all with no further need for comment.Have a good day.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
JD & CommunistAJC, you can call me stupid, ignorant and slutty (what that has to do with this I don’t know. Oh yes I am a woman and that is the best you can do) but the fact remains Obama is going to win and McCain is going to lose. Let me put that another way, your party sucks A$$ and is being fired! Let me rephrase that- if I am ignorant then you are idiotic because at least I can see the handwriting on the wall. You two are reacting like a couple of sexually retarded buttholes. McCain is going to loose mothers!! HaHaHa! Losers. Suck on that!
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 13, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
My Advice for McCain?
Admit defeat, pack up head back to AZ and attempt to redeem what’s left of your reputation.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
You Republicans are so pathetic! Everyone who disagrees with you is stupid and hates America! Really? No wonder you are losing.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Cherokee 10:21
George W. Bush had been president in a little less time than it takes to produce a tiny baby. He took over a slashed military from President Clinton (D). He took over a flawed CIA and FBI. He worked with what he had and kept us safe.
Go ahead and be an Bush-hate ingrate. You don’t deserve what you got but you got it anyway. NOW you want to give it away.
Well, you will not give away my freedom without a fight to keep it. McCain/Palin 2008.
By getalife
October 13, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
I advise him to retire after he loses.
By AmVet
October 13, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
You all keep saying Obama will be a disaster. Lauren is right you are the same people who told us Bush would be great. Why should we listen to you! There is no way Obama can do worse than Bush. No way!
steve-o, though, I agree that it is pretty hard to imagine a president Obama doing a worse job than GWB, anything is possible.
But Lauren’s point is undeniable.
Anyone can make a mistake. We all do.
But in the face of overwhelming evidence, these Bush apologists and enablers lacked the courage to come clean about the over riding and long standing duplicity and ineptitude of this administration and their fatally flawed ideology.
And they continue to try and cloak these failures with meaningless demagoguery with terms such as “conservative”.
I said years ago they are, in many ways, OBVIOUSLY the very antithesis of American conservatism. But yet they persist in trying to delude people, though mainly themselves anymore, that they have any claim to this word.
And they have irrefutably put, in most American’s minds, grave doubt as to their ability to size up competence and integrity.
And the American people recognize this. And will hold them fundamentally responsible for being a bunch of Nero’s fiddling while Rome burned. (though that is a myth, as the violin wasn’t invented for another thousand years.)
But we all get the point…
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Dear Alvin @ 8:51, I hate to interrupt a good whine, and this spam is previously posted on this blog, but if Chauncey were a conservative instead of a Marxist, he would be ahead by 25 points. Racism is not the problem, Marxism is.
Dear GA Values @ 9:02, I would urge you to consider WCLV online. Great music, no NPR - and a commercial station, no begging for money. I think it is the best classical station in the country, with WDAV a close second. Re: Krugman, perhaps now Obama and the leftists will abandon the silly NAFTA “renegotiation” stuff. I have to admit, I was unaware of Krugman’s work in trade theory – I simply associated him with Enron. Not fair to him I suppose.
Dear Dusty @ 10:04, maybe it is a genetic thing – our leftists seem to be motivated by hatred, just oozes out. We used to have a few thoughtful leftists here – Southern Democrat and Shar come to mind quickly. I suspect they are embarrassed by the recent representation of their ideology on the blog.
Dear Lauren the moonbat @ 10:11, “You all have lost all your credibility” - you need to appreciate that the cult worship thing is exclusive to leftists. Conservatives do not care about “credibility,” but only the quality of the argument. Yours is deficient.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Mrs. Godzilla,@10:35
My advice to you: Go back to being IN THE NEWS and use other people’s ideas. Maybe then you can rid yourself of the reputation you have acquired.
By charles corley
October 13, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Goooooood morning/ my advice to john would be to come clean and tell us if he was trying to get out of the navy when he was shot down because the enemy had started shooting back and why didn’t his father meet him when he returned fron vietnam and why his father later committed suicide.
By Cornbread Fred
October 13, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim! You are a stink-stirrer, kind of like the old Wally George show. Wally made right-wingers look ridiculous, just like Clinton did for the lefties. Isn’t this fun, getting the lefties and righties at each others’ throats as America’s enemies laugh? On this blog I see liberals and conservatives use the very same methods: name-calling, card-stacking, demonizing the other side, insisting on a binary choice, glittering generalities, all right out of the textbooks on propaganda usage. One side looks no better to me than the other. For shame!
By Bella
October 13, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
Lauren, you are NASTY. Put a lid on it, pullleeeassseee!!!!!
By AmVet
October 13, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
Dusty, I think there is a lodge in Idaho that is looking for you.
Or maybe a compound in Waco.
By Ricecakes
October 13, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
WOW, ALVIN! Your posting is AWESOME and on point.
By Haha!
October 13, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
It seems that many of the Republican comments on this board are racists. Read the subtext! How can you live with yourselves.
I forget, God gives us the right to be ignorant, hateful, and prejudice.
Do you fear all Muslims? Or fear what you can never understand?
By GA4OBAMA
October 13, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
how can mccain promise all these tax cuts, fund a war in iraq and afghanistan, and balance the budget (which he has promised to do his first term)? sounds like a bush 41 repeat me to me “read my lips, no new taxes”. but once bush 41 was in offices taxes were raised. and don’t say by getting rid of earmarks (which can’t be done because they are actually necessary) because earmarks don’t make up enough of the budget.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
If I misspelled anything I am sure it was a type-o. But I can see why I simpleton like you thinks a type-o means a person is stupid. Afterall you think Bush is a good man simplly because he says he loves Jesus and you think Obama is a bad man because his middle name is Hussein. You Republicans can feel proud of yourselves if you like but the rest of the country HATES you. You need to understand that. We fricking hate you. If you don’t believe me now then you will when you wake up in the morning on Nov.5th. The only arguments you have is to call me slutty and stupid. That’s it. That is the beginning and end of your argument. Bravo! Very compelling. Tell me another and make sure you get Communist and Marxist in there again. Because it is so convincing. Tell me this, if McCain is so great and your arguments so wise then why is McCain losing? And give me a real answer. I dare you.
By MikeB
October 13, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
Funny Jim- I did not know Obama’s brainwashing of the gulible, idealistic left, included unleashing a torrent of snide “we are gonna win, so get used to it” posts on these blogs.
McCain is within the Margin of error in the polls which means its alot closer thean the Democratic party and their wingnut bloggers would like you too believe (Drown me out with your sensless posts libs..But its true)
Secondly If you get your news from a variety of sources, you will see that The news out of Illinois is not good for Obama. His developer pal(and now a resident of the IL Dept. of Correction) is starting to sing…….. **Tony Rezko is outling the relationships that are the
The Chicago Machine Tony Rezko now is talking about the Giannoulias brothers and Broadway Bank….. A bank owned by the brothers that verified and validated $450k in bad checks Rezko wrote in Las Vegas knowing they were bogus.
A bank that holds or has held the money you dopes donate to Obamas campaign.
A bank run by close personal friend of Obama,* Alexi Giannoulias*-
-Giannoulias was promoted by Obama to run for state treasurer of Illinois, while every other politico ran the other way. (They knew he was dirty)
-Giannoulias was Broadway Bank’s vice president and chief loan officer under whose watch more than $15 million in loans was approved. Some of these loans went to Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a Chicagoan with deep ties to organized crime twice convicted of bookmaking and running a nationwide prostitution ring.
Dimitri Giannoulias Was pushed by Tony Rezko to be appointed to the IL Finance Authority. he also serves on the BOD of Crossroad Funds whose intersts include community organizing and economic development in low-income communities. Not abad thing on its own, but when the benefactor of the funds philanthropy is ACORN…… TROUBLE.
So let the libs drown that….. Once the regular media gets wind, they will not be able to ignore it any longer.
I say handle three things tomorrow night.
Economy- connecting the dots to Clinton Fannie and Freddie, taxes & small business pain and the above
Do this and its * McCain/ Palin 2008*
By AmVet
October 13, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
On Wednesday October 15 at 6 p.m., Ralph Nader is holding a rally at Cooper Union.
Then the next day, Thursday October 16 at noon, he’ll be protesting on Wall Street.
At those events, Nader and Gonzalez will be calling for an end to the bailout of Wall Street’s crooks.
They will be calling for jail time for corporate crime.
And they will demand that Wall Street be forced to pay for this mess through a securities speculation tax — starting with a tax on derivatives.
Check out the details at votenader.org/nyc.
And love him or hate him you gotta admire his sense of humor!
He’ll have a giant inflatable pig — to represent Wall Street’s sustained orgy of excess and reckless behavior.
And a giant inflatable screw — to represent what the bailout means for the taxpayer.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Dear GA Values @ 10:18, I still think the jbmlaw solution was better – govt guarantee short-term interbank loans, or otherwise participate more actively in the overnight Fed funds market. The lack of trust among banks is the entire reason the value of the mortgage pools has gone to $0. Buying at market, of course, only guarantees the loss at the lowest possible value; no bank will sell, thus the liquidity seizure will persist due to lack of participation.
The way to free up the liquidity is (1) abolish the mark-to-market rule, now accomplished, and (2) facilitate interbank lending. The $700 billion Rube Goldberg legislation neither addresses the cause of the problem, nor as reflected in the article, does anything to cure it.
By PJ
October 13, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
McCain clearly needs all of the advice he can get but at this point it’s irrelevant. He IS his own man which mean, he listens to no one—including voters, paid advisers, his wife, his mistresses, his kids. No one. So, advise away Republicans. Johnny’s got his own kooky, er, rock solid, plans.
By GA4MCCAIN
October 13, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
how can obama promise all these tax cuts, fund a war in iraq and afghanistan, and balance the budget (which he has promised to do his first term)?
By Robert
October 13, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
McCain’s inept campaign isn’t the problem. The Senator’s selection of Sarah Palin is what has driven many independent, and some Republican, voters toward Obama. As a Democrat, I was willing to consider voting for McCain until he chose someone so woefully ill-prepared for the Vice Presidency. My family members, who are more of the GOP persuasion, have indicated that they fear Palin would become President and we would really but up the creek then. Therefore, they are voting for Obama. Putting aside what the selection of Governor Palin says about Senator McCain’s readiness for the hard decisions a President will be forced to make, at a root level, many people, particularly those outside the GOP base, are extremely uncomfortable with Sarah Palin being sworn in to office as Vice President. As far as advice for McCain on what to do about this problem, the only solution is to drop Palin from the ticket, but that isn’t going to happen so Obama is going to become the next President. There is no solution for McCain, but this should serve as an example to future candidates to put their country first when making their selection of running mate, instead of gambling the nation’s future on a gimmick.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
AmVet,10:43
Sorry but there was no mistake with George W. Bush.
If you want to forget all the important things he did, that is your privilege and your depression. I say save the country any day from terrorism even if our stock market fluctuates or dives. Bush protected up and, with our military, released two countries from tyranny.
You can present all the propaganda you want. Bush was not any more perfect than the rest of us but BUSH KEPT THIS COUNTRY SAFE AND SOUND. Name me another one that is as free and protective of it’s citizens. Well???
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Dear Lauren @ 10:51, “Tell me this, if McCain is so great and your arguments so wise then why is McCain losing? And give me a real answer. I dare you.” Fair question. (1) Your premise is flawed. McCain is not so great, he is simply better than the deficient Obama. (2) The reason Obama is ahead is that he conceals his game – the same strategy used by Jimmy Carter in 1976. Were he honest about his ideology he would be behind 25 points.
By steve-o
October 13, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
Umm, wow. Well a few things here. Republicans are very sore losers. Obviously. And they are also deeply in denial. Look, the national polls have Obama up anywhere from 4-12 points. I have heard Wooten and some others on this blog take the 4 point poll and run and say that things are close enough for McCain to make up ground. Unfortunately, the national polls make things look closer than they are. In the state polls Obama has a huge lead. HUGE. He could lose all of the battleground states and still win. You need to pay attention here. McCain will lose. Obama’s lead is too big. Something earthshattering would have to happen in McCain’s favor and so far the earthshattering things that have happened are all in Obama’s favor. You all may hate the Democrats but the truth remains that your party is the one that has been in power for 8 years and you are still trying to blame the Dems for all that has gone wrong. You may believe that line but most people do not. Now that being said, calling people stupid or questioning their patriotism does not make them look bad it makes you look bad. It actually makes you look pathetic. So if you want to look pathetic keep it up, but it does not change the fact that the electoral map is a no-can-do for McCain. You have 22 days to come to grips with that.
By CwnBt
October 13, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Agreed JW. Let Palin educate the voter on the Obama-Ayers systematical education reform.
Social Justice High School to open in Chicago
Social Justice School System in Venezuela
William Ayers — President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente Rangel, Ministers Moncada and Isturiz, invited guests,comrades. I’m honored and humbled to be here with you this morning. I bring greetings and support from your brothers and sisters throughout Northamerica.
Chavez, Ayers, Obama — COMRADES forever.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
I am sorry, I meant to say… It was a mistake to elect George W. Bush.
By The Truth Revealed
October 13, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
www.laurenispoliticalforeskinoncrackandindrag.uk
By SayNo2McCain
October 13, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
JD,
The problem is that in your assessment, the man knew he was committing fraud. Who is to say that ACORN knew that he was already registered? Whatever the answer is to this question, your guy will come across as a LIAR.
I think this guy was a homeless republican who wanted to help his party make a case against ACORN. How’s that for a good scenario?
By reebok
October 13, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
advice for Senator McCain…accept defeat graciously and bow out looking like s statesman rather than the angry old man he’s been acting like lately. and sarah p can go back to shooting wolves from helicopters.`
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
I am sorry, I meant to say… It was a mistake to elect George W. Bush.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Ragner, you knowledge of history is what is deficient! Carter did not win because he concealed his true plans. Carter won because of Nixon and Watergate. Hello! The nation had lost its trust of the Republican party. That is the same thing here. Bush has failed (below 30% approval, economy in the toilet) so the Republican party is being fired. Why can’t you all see that?
By AmVet
October 13, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
Name me another one that is as free and protective of it’s citizens. Well???
That is easy. The United States of America.
Prior to January 2001.
When the US Constitution wasn’t used as a piece of toilet paper by Bush/Cheney.
All Americans are glad that we’ve had no more needless deaths. At least in this country. And I will forever thankful that he survived 9/11.
But The Hero of the Texas ANG, hasn’t exactly kept the mighty army and air force of the Nazis at bay. Or the Japanese Navy. Or Attila the Hun.
He’s kept a bunch of disorganized towel heads without boats from storming the Jersey shore.
Wow….
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
I am proud of being an ignorant racist! Vote McCain! Vote Palin!
Bush is so awesomely awesome! I wish I had actual facts or information to back up my argument.
But now I have said it enough, so it must be true!
BUSH! BUSH! BUSH!
By EDI
October 13, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this
I have to admit, in Feb. 2008 when it was clear that McCain was going to be the Repub. choice for President, I was happy. I liked him. Now? I would not vote for him if he were the only name on the ballot. He has changed into a man no one knows. I think if this question were asked two weeks ago, he might still have a chance to when. My advice to him so that he will not known as the candidate who ran the worst campaign in history is:
1- End the negative ads. I could care less about Ayers, Wright, ACORN (which registered Democrats AND Republicans), this does not address the issues of the housing market collapse, the Wall Street meltdown, and record job loss.
2- Get rid of Sarah Palin. She needs to have a “family emergency” and drop out of the race. He needs to have Romney or Huckabee ready to accept the nod.
3- Be himself. Not the person he became after Sarah Palin. We were not able to vote for him in the primaries, but the Repubs that did showned they wanted a moderate Repub. Someone who could bring us back to center. He has know lost those votes, because he has turned into Bush 2.0.
4-Get rid of the idiot advisors you have who told you to turn into Bush 2.0. Why would you want to mimic the worst president in US history and be a poor copy of Bush at that?
I know I am going to get flack for this, but I think McCain has lost Ga. As a true Repub., I plan to vote for Barr. I think there are a lot of people like me who want to vote for a true Repub., but not McCain. I think the polls overestimate McCain and underestimate Barr. This will split the vote and Obama will take Ga.
By fearless fosdik
October 13, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
Dusty @ 11:01 AM
Dusty are you delusional or what? Bush, had a PDB which said Bin Laden was set to attack the U.S. what did this moron do? NOTHING! He went on vacation.
He attacked Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11 without provocation, and with faulty if not outright lies about WMD!
The cost over 4,000 lives, and close to a trillion dollars.
One of our so-called allies Pakistan is basically harboring Bin Laden.
Afganastan is not FREE of “tyranny” in fact the country is in total chaos. The poppy fields are blooming, and the taliban is alive and thriving!
Everything that Bush has come into contact with; private and public has turned to sh*t, and yet you, and others seem to think this idiot somehow has done wonders.
By the way did you ever figure out where your COOTER is?
By Oh, please
October 13, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
I can’t believe all you rednecks siding with Republicans. You’re perfect examples of why the south lost the Civil War.
If McCain had any original ideas for pulling America out of its current downward spiral, he wouldn’t have to run such a negative campaign. Perhaps if he actually told the truth instead of manufacturing lie after lie after lie, people might actually choose to vote for him. Maybe if he promised to actually uphold the Constitution, instead of promising to follow the Bush policies that have diminished the value of the Consititution to “just a piece of paper.” Maybe if he cared about the American people instead of just caring whether he wins or not. Perhaps if he actually supported the military instead of continuing to sacrifice our youth for oil.
Face it, if he really wanted to put country first he wouldn’t have chosen Palin as his VP. I mean, is that the best that the Republican Party has to offer? Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
Looking forward to 2009 and seeing Democrats for President, House and Senate - thank you George W. Bush! You’ve helped the Democratic Party win the day.
By SayNo2McCain
October 13, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
When I hear the Republicans on this blog talk about the poor and minorities when it comes to foreclosed homes and subprime loans, I always think these guys are NUTS.
Then I see articles like the one below, which proves my case for just how NUTS they really are.
I guess the owner just couldn’t make the payments due to the bad economy and credit freeze.
Foreclosed mall in Macon for sale Associated Press
Monday, October 13, 2008
Macon Mall is scheduled to be sold to the highest bidder in November.
The foreclosed mall is for sale due to the nonpayment of a $141.2 million loan.
In June 2005, New Jersey-based The Lightstone Group borrowed the money and used Macon Mall LLC and Burlington Mall LLC in North Carolina as collateral. LaSalle Bank National Association is holding the loan as a trustee.
In July, the group’s total unpaid debt was more than $155 million, according to a complaint against Macon Mall.
Mall manager Brian Olivi says it is unclear what effect the foreclosure will have on Belk, Sears and Macy’s, which own their buildings.
Dillard’s plans to close its store at the mall by December.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
Robert,@10:59
The gamble NOW is NOT Sarah Palin. The Gamble is OBAMA who is running for PRESIDENT OF THE USA Sarah Palin is running for VICE PRESIDENT behind a man of strong principles. There are no gimmicks.
OBAMA plans to CHANGE AMERICA and, from what I judge from his pronouncements, means an AMERICA OF SOCIALISM. That I do NOT want
If a competent patriotic woman with experience in governing scares you, then take on socialism and smile. You will get what you asked for, the life of a socialistic puppet.
By Jim is a caveman
October 13, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
The good thing is, once Nov. 4 has come and gone, good old Dusty will be out there supporting President Obama, as all good Americans should. Right, Dusty? That’s what you always said when anyone said anything bad about your personal hero, Dubya? So you will put aside ideology and support President Obama if and when he is elected. That’s a good American.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
Repukes are gonna take beating on 11/4/2008….Let’s make it worse, and rub their ugly noses in it between now and then….
By lazermike
October 13, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
Oooh, I have an idea! McCain should do whatever Jim says. Remember when Jim wrote that Sarah Palin would lead McCain to victory because she is like other Americans with leaky faucets and sick kids (really — I guess Jim thinks Obama supporters have on-call plumbers and children with some sort of superhuman immune systems)? And remember when he confidently predicted that McCain’s antics with postponing the debate and “working on” the bailout would hand him the election — even after it clearly was a failure? Wooten is always wrong, of course, but never so much about this campaign. By all means, McCain should follow his advice — right into the ditch.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Liberal cannot even fight fairly. ID THIEVES @ 11:06 and 11:12 and 11:16.
By SavingGrace
October 13, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
There is a lot of dirt flying around this blog today but one things is clear: Dusty is a stupid redneck. He hopes if he keeps shouting “socialist” that he will win this argument. Dumba$$ motherhumper.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Jim is a caveman @11:28
Should we have such a catastrophe as Obama being elected, I will make honest statements about his presidency just as I have about that of George W. Bush.
Why don’t you try honesty sometimes?
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
Saving Grace@11:33
Why don’t you sing “Amazing Grace” sometimes? You could use some.
By Carolyn
October 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Jim, it’s amazing how many Obamabots are commenting on this blog. I just read a column about the bo campaign telling the One’s supporters to clog up the blogs and phone lines so conservatives would not be able to opine. And John Lewis’s comments about McCain have caused me to lose all respect I ever had for him. Get ready for all this lawlessness and accusations of racism to be a daily occurence after Nov. 4th-no matter who wins.
By SavingGrace
October 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Dusty you are confusing honesty with intelligence. If you are dumb then your “honest” opinion is really not that noteworthy. And your “honest” opinion is just that. Your opinion. Not fact. Because you also confuse opinion with fact. Just sayin’
By Gram
October 13, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
I think you have Palin mixed up with NObama when you talk about having to have a script to follow. Barry can’t talk without a teleprompter.
By BS Aplenty
October 13, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
I generally agree with your analysis, Jim.
THE clear weak points for Obama are: 1) his poor judgement (twenty years at TUCC, Ayers, Pfleger, Rezko), 2) his poor character associations which influenced his judgement 3) his Communist/big government solution to healthcare (Gingrich was a master at legitimately deriding H. Clinton’s attempts at Universal Healthcare), 4) his wealth redistribution through taxation philosophy, and 6) his very limited experience in foreign policy.
That being said, if McCain hasn’t figured all this out by now then he is too old for the job.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Uh, Dusty…You do not own the name Dusty, other people also are called Dusty. Calling someone a thief just because they have the same name or nickname as you is rather igomanical….but at least you are consistent. I fully intend to copy many of your posts wraping the bush administration and patritism together, and repost them demanding patriotic americans fully support President Obama….I presume you will do the same, as the self professed patriot you claim to be…..
By Brad
October 13, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Obama will never see the white house with all of his radical friends. The hero McCain will be our next president. MCCain is by far the best candidate for president.
It will be nice before the election to see what the FBI finds out when they finish the ACORN voter fraud investiation that has Obama connections.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Saving Grace @11:44
If “intelligent opinions” are the only ones worth printing, why are you posting yours?
By M
October 13, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Tisk, tisk, what are you going to do when Obama takes residence in the White House in a few months?
McCain needs to go sit on his front porch and ponder. Maybe sit in his rocking chair and dream of days gone by.
So long to the “old” and hello to the “new”. Vote Obama.
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Maybe if McSame starting acting presidential, instead of like Elmer Fudd, he would be squeezing 1% ahead of the Dems, just like the GOP candidate always does 3 weeks ahead of election day…
By NOBAMA
October 13, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
I’m still waiting for someone to tell me what NObama is going to “change” other than to allow illegals MORE rights, increase welfare, raise taxes (to pay that welfare) socialize medicine which will make it even MORE difficult for EVERYONE to see a doctor. Just ask Canada what it’s like, and how long it takes to see a doctor. GOD HELP US ALL if this farce is elected
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
Republican R Crooks @11:43
I do NOT steal the IDs of other as you do. There are no excuses for dishonesty even though you try. Can you not make a point without cheating?
By M
October 13, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Tisk, tisk, what are you going to do when Obama takes residence in the White House in a few months?
McCain needs to go sit on his front porch and ponder. Maybe sit in his rocking chair and dream of days gone by.
So long to the “old” and hello to the “new”. Vote Obama.
By Famuan
October 13, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
you want 6 colleges in 5 years, “what does the VP do?”, eloped after getting knocked up - kinda like her daughter - abused power, married to a man who belonged to a secessionist party - to attack Obama on CHARACTER??…..LMAO!!
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Mental instability runs in McCain’s family…His father, the Admiral, committed suicide. Do we really want a suicidal madman to have his finger on the nuclear button? I think not…..
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Dear Lauren @ 11:12, you err. While Jimmy Carter did win in 1976 largely due to the faux-scandal called “Watergate,” he went from a 15 point lead in the polls to a dead heat at the finish line. As the American public became increasingly aware of his political positions, Mr. Carter’s standing fell. He was never more popular as president than on his first day in office. His undeniable policies led to his defeat in 1980. Thus, the Obama simile is compelling – he has (so far) successfully avoided acknowledging any position on any issue, save those on which he agrees with John McCain. He is on his third tax policy now, the first two having been abandoned in toto. He is on his third version of international relations (if you count the change in trade.)
Dear fosdik @ 11:21, if you re-examine the language of the PDB, you realize there was no indication of where or when an attack would occur, merely an affirmation of intent. No that truth would ever matter to a leftist, but even The One would not have been able to make use of that PDB. We all realize that leftist, left with the same decisions as President Bush, would never have attacked even Afghanistan. Al Qaeda would be flourishing, and the Taliban would be in control of an entire country. The foppish pacifism of the left never serves the US well, although your unwillingness to support the military’s courageous efforts to extinguish the evil is well documented.
Dear Caveman @ 11:28, you forget, it is leftists who are cultist. Republicans support ideas, not people – to the extent that a President Obama validates freedom he can count on Republican support. My guess is there would not be much.
By Mike
October 13, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Dusty - awwww… pwore babwy. coo coo… wah.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Dear Dusty @ various times, while it is appropriate for you to continue to note the phony posts, we really don’t have any trouble telling your posts from those of the intellgence-challenged on the other side
By Abandon ship
October 13, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
I recommend abandoning this Thinking Right ship until such point as the rabid ‘bats wear themselves out and intelligent comment by thinking people can return. Removing the fuel of intelligent comment would give the leftist fire no fuel and it would burn out. The ‘bats would have to return to mindlessly touching themselves and collecting smegma.
By Mike
October 13, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
Dusty - awwww… pwore babwy. coo coo… wah.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
Republican R Crooks@11:56
I see that you are now smearing the families of candidates, a rotten thing to do but your way. Would you care to elaborate on the overlapping wives of Obama’s father?
I object to Obama’s philosopy and politics, that is socialism. His parents (both of whom are dead) are not running for the presidency. Why don’t you try for a bit of good character for a change?
By Linda Berry
October 13, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
The Republicans need to drive home to the Independents the Demoncrates want to put a man in the White House that COULD NOT get a security clearance from the Federal Government because of his associations. If Obama is too questionable to work for the Federal government, why would we want to put him in charge of it? Go Figure!!!
By The Anti-Wooten
October 13, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Well, I see Jim is following the standard McBush campaign strategy. Last week he was here libeling anyone that posts on this blog not in agreement with his point of view, pontificating sainthood for Dusty and generally make a horses patoot of himself. This week he’s soliciting advice from anyone that will proffer it.
My advice to McBush is simple:
Invent a time machine, go back to the beginning of this campaign, hire some honest competent people to work for him and campaign as one person. No message, No honesty, No policy. That’s been his shape shifting strategy since the outset and now it’s biting him in the arse.
By whatzit2ya?
October 13, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
why do the desperate denizens of the deep-thinking dimwits here vote democrat? because they ARE NOT deep thinkers. they ARE the 40% that won’t get a job. they ARE the 40% that don’t pay taxes.
looking for barack’s government to bail them out and to bail on democracy as we know it.
this is their time.
this is their moment.
the marx brothers hugochico, adolphbarack, grouchoayers will rule THEIR NEW AMERICA!
i am adolph marx and i approve this message.
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
Dear Ragnar 12:06
Glad you can tell real posts from stolen ones. I am not sure that everyone can. So I mention the phonies.
I will be gone for a while. Keep up the good work. It is an enjoyable thing to read your fine posts.
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
they ARE the 40% that won’t get a job. they ARE the 40% that don’t pay taxes.
whatzit @ 12:19 — you’re not posting in vague generalities today, are ya? Every Dem I know is hard-working at their jobs and paying plenty o’ taxes year after year. So who is it that you’re talking about, exactly???
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Ragnar, that fact that you think Watergate was a “Faux scandal” shows that you are so blindly devoted to the Republican party that you refuse to see the truth. History does not show Watergate to be fake. It shows that Nixon was a paranoid crook. And history will be just as unkind to Bush. You can continue to deny the truth but you are laughable!
By AthensGA
October 13, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
My Advice to McCain, tell Obama supporters to voice their opinions somewhere else first. Secondly, bring Palin up to speed fast. Answers like ” I’ve Only Been at this 5 Weeks” will not work period.
By Shawny
October 13, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
There is no way…no way, a far left lib like Obama is cutting taxes. Think about it….
First, he would have to get a budget to his desk from Reid and Pelosi asking for lower taxes, and that ain’t happening.
Will someone please ask him how the numbers work on what he is proposing. Also, ask him about ACORN and his involvement with the group that is adding fake voters by the thousands
By Shawny
October 13, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
By the way, Barack, healthcare is not a right. Rights are things guaranteed by the govt that is there working for us.
So, if you believe it is a right, then if you can’t afford healthcare, the govt has your back. Don’t want to work…have some unemployment benes. Bought a house you can’t afford…here is some more help. Just say no to socialism. There is a reason folks fled England and formed this country. It was to get away from large intrusive govt.
By itpdude
October 13, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Retire. That’s my advice to McCain. Retire.
By Suffering Fools Madly
October 13, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
My advice is to find John Lewis and assist him in putting a sock in it.
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Lauren, Yes, watergate was a scandal. So what? History will be kind to Bush. Why? Because he saw the threat of islamic jihad and protected America. History will not be kind to Bill Clinton. Why? Because he lied to the grand jury and was disbarred. History is not kind to Jimmy Carter. Why? Because Jimmy Carter is and was a moron of epic proportion.
By McCain is a Hero
October 13, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
All of you who think Obama is going to cut your taxes are only kidding yourselves. He’s going to RAISE payroll taxes, and if you ever looked at your pay stubs you’d realize that YOU PAY HALF OF YOUR PAYROLL and FICA TAXES. HELLO!!! He WILL raise them. Also, he WILL take from the “so-called” rich. Last time I checked if you made 250,000 you were not RICH. And who do you think the “rich” are?? Let me clue you in…they are your BOSSES, your BUSINESS OWNERS….if they have to pay more tax guess who its going to hurt??? NOT THEM! They will just lay off your sorry but…then you’ll have no one to think but OBAMA and YOURSELF for casting your vote for him. OBAMA is deceiving you all by saying he’s going to lower your taxes…he will raise them in one way or another. Believe me.
McCain needs to point this out to all the dumb Americans out there who are too stupid to figure it out on their own!
By Fulton
October 13, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Ahh, it’s so nice to watch these delusional GOP’ers as they panic in the streets! McCains selection of a total incompetent will be the reason for his downfall but you people that actually try to get us to fall for her are the scariest of all. Yes, the American publc may be stupid…but not that stupid!!! Looks like we are finally waking up…
Before you start with your ‘savior’ remarks, save it!! Barack Obama is only a man and can do no worse than the previous…
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 12:44 PM | 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 Trowel and Era
October 13, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Raising taxes will be small potatoes comparted to wholesale revamping of the government designed to keep Obaman and his minions in power indefinitely. Count on a stacked Supreme Court, abolishment of all term limits, a rewritten Constitution, and all school kids singing daily praises to Our Dear Leader. The United States Socialist Republic is in the making. You fools are bowing down before a false idol.
By Lauren
October 13, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
CommunistAJC, I did not argue that Watergate was a scandal. I said it was not a faux scandal. Do you know what faux means? It means false/fake. Learn to read. Bush attacked a country that was not involved in 9/11 and said we had to do it quickly because they were getting ready to nuke us. He also said we would be greeted as liberators. He was wrong on all fronts. He destabilized the middle east in epic proportions and we are much less safe now because of Bush. Your “logic” is very flawed. Your basic reasonings are that history will judge the guys you like kindly simply because you like them and history will be hard on those you hate simply because you hate them and if history does judge a Republican harshly (Nixon) then just ignore it and pretend differently. If Jimmy Carter is such an idiot then why did he win a Nobel Prize? If Bush is so great then why is his approval rating below 30%? You deny the obvious. BTW, if you say Watergate does not matter simply because it is a scandal then by your own rules what happened to Clinton should not matter either. You are a typical kool-aid swilling Republican. Just because Fox News says it does not mean it’s true. Good luck to you.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 13, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
BUSH KEPT THIS COUNTRY SAFE AND SOUND
That’s funny stuff Dusty! George W. Hitler stole the 2000 selection, engineered a terrorist attack upon his own country, manufactured evidence against Iraq, brutally attacked, occupied and killed hundreds of thousands of the citizenry there. He usurped power not given to him, eviscerated the Constitution, spied on Americans, oversaw the use of torture upon detainees, pardoned himself of war crimes, gave the oil companies carte blanche to rape Americans at the gas pump, gave contracts, without competition, to Halliburton, Blackwater and others that allowed those companies to gouge the taxpayers in a most unconscionable way and he presided over the demolition of the United States economy.
Keep up the comedy Musty. You are always good for a hearty laugh. McDumbass is defeated! The day of the Republinazi is over!!!!
By Manny
October 13, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
I think that the McCain “Fight” chants like a football coach is a good thing for him. Plus, the football coach approach can include issues.
But Sarah Palin is bad for the ticket. Sarah is great to rile up the base, but she is driving Independents and women away from the ticket. The decision to have Sarah Palin on the ticket will be the biggest reason why Obama will win the White House.
Think about it: The biggest single day of fundraising for the Obama campaign was the day she spoke at the RNC. She is empty intellectually and her only job is to make McCain look like he endorses this negative mechanisms in the campaign.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
There you go again Dusty, lying thru the keyboard. I have not used the name Dusty, yet you have accused and convicted me of this non-crime, and labeled me a cheat. What is with that Dirty Ball, do you have cheating on YOUR mind? Well, not with me, I have much higher standards than you.
By Clearly Now
October 13, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Lauren -
Were you alive during the Carter administration? I voted for him in 1976 and I can tell you with certainty that the man is an idiot. He was despised by his own party. The only reason rehabilitated him is because he is more than willing to open his mouth and make a fool of himself on their behalf. Actually, they have a lot of people willing to do that, but he carries the prestige of being a former failed president.
By GJ
October 13, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
Appoint Guiliani Attorney General and Romney Treasury Secretary. Announce this at the debate Wednesday and that they will begin to work with Paulson and Kashkari immediately following the election.
By The voice of reason
October 13, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
What Right Wingers Mean When They Call Obama A “Socialist”
Right-wing attempts to paint Barack Obama as a socialist aren’t just disingenuous. They’re rooted in a history of conservative smears against black leaders.
Adam Serwer | October 13, 2008 | web only
On Saturday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis went nuclear on John McCain, releasing a statement that seemed to compare McCain to segregationist George Wallace. “George Wallace never threw a bomb,” Lewis wrote. “He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who only desired to exercise their constitutional rights.” The civil rights icon continued, “Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed one Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.”
Lewis accused McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin of “sowing the seeds of hatred and division.” He was referring to the angry tone of recent McCain rallies, where cries of “kill him” and “off with his head” have made many people anxious about the potential for violence against the Democratic nominee.
It’s no wonder that the tone at McCain rallies remind Lewis of the bad old days. In recent months, conservatives have sounded increasingly retro with their attempts to paint Obama as a socialist or communist. In some ways, this accusation is typical far-right boilerplate. Obama certainly isn’t the first Democrat running for president to be accused of communist sympathies. And as usual, the accusations are rarely linked to policy specifics. But the difference with Obama is that, in the eyes of the right, it’s not just his political affiliation that implicates him as a socialist. It’s his ethnic background.
The hysterical accusations of socialism from conservatives echo similar accusations leveled at black leaders in the past, as though the quest for racial parity were simply a left-wing plot. Obama may not actually be a socialist or communist, but his election would strike another powerful blow to the informal racial hierarchy that has existed in America since the 1960s, when it ceased being enforced by law. This hierarchy, which holds that whiteness is synonymous with American-ness, is one conservatives are now instinctively trying to preserve. Like black civil-rights activists of the 1960s, Obama symbolizes the destruction of a social order they see as fundamentally American, which is why terms like “socialism” are used to describe the threat.
This phenomenon extends beyond Obama’s candidacy. The conservative explanation for the mortgage crisis falls neatly into this narrative, too; the country is at risk because Democrats allowed minorities to disrupt the natural social order by becoming homeowners. Never mind that this defies all data, logic, and history, the narrative resonates because it allows Obama, a living symbol of black folks rising above “their station,” to become a focus for conservative economic anxieties.
Conservatives, now and in the past, have turned to “socialism” and “communism” as shorthand to criticize black activists and political figures since the civil-rights era. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X as written by Alex Haley, Malcolm recalls being confronting by a government agent tailing him in Africa, not long after his pilgrimage to Mecca. The agent was convinced that Malcolm was a communist. Malcolm spent years under surveillance because of such bizarre suspicions. Likewise, J. Edgar Hoover spent years attempting to link Martin Luther King Jr. to the communist cause. King, for his part, welcomed everyone who embraced the cause of black civil rights, regardless of their ideological ties. This included communists and socialists, but the idea that a devout man of God like King saw black rights as a mere step in a worldwide communist revolution was absurd. Malcolm was a conservative. King was a liberal. To their enemies, they were simply communists.
The feeling that black-rights activists were part of a front for communism and socialism was widespread. Jerry Falwell famously criticized “the sincerity and intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.” Falwell charged, “It is very obvious that the Communists, as they do in all parts of the world, are taking advantage of a tense situation in our land, and are exploiting every incident to bring about violence and bloodshed.” For the agents of intolerance, things haven’t changed much. On October 9, a McCain supporter told the candidate that he was angry about “socialists taking over our country.” McCain told him he was right to be angry.
The right wing continues to link the fight for black equality with socialism and communism. At the website of conservatism’s flagship publication, National Review, conservatives like Andy McCarthy argue whether Obama is “more Maoist than Stalinist,” and National Review writer Lisa Schiffren explicitly argued this summer that Obama must have communist links based on his interracial background. Schiffren mused, “for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics.”
This conclusion is one she shares with Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s, who declared that “amalgamation is ultimately the goal of the Communist element.” (To be fair, these conclusions make a bit of sense: could there be a more perfect vessel for a secret communist takeover of the United States than a biracial one-term senator from Chicago with an Arabic-sounding name? At a Starbucks somewhere, Chairman Mao is leeching WiFi for a quick instant message to William Ayers: “It’s happening exactly how we planned it.”)
McCain, a child of privilege who spent the late 1960s in a Vietnamese prison camp, may simply be unaware of the feelings and historical context he has evoked through his campaign’s rhetoric. When Sarah Palin accuses Obama of “palling around with terrorists” and suggests that Obama hates his own country enough to wish it violence, the McCain campaign fuels age-old paranoia built around the conflation of black rights and the radical left. As for McCain himself, his attempts to tamp down the vitriol of his crowds suggest that he is somewhat confused by their response. He wants voters to dislike Obama, but he seems unaware of just what he has unleashed. However, by implicitly invoking the idea that Obama represents a socialist takeover of the United States, McCain is inviting what can only be a rational response from those who would die for their country: violence. What else is a patriot to do when freedom is threatened? Especially when their fears have been validated by no less authoritative a source than the Republican nominee for president of the United States?
John McCain is no George Wallace, and a direct comparison may not be what Lewis intended. Rather, Lewis was expressing concern that the McCain campaign’s rhetoric could lead some of their supporters to conclude that violence is the only rational response to an Obama victory. (This is essentially the position staked out by the Obama campaign, which both rejected the Wallace comparison and remained critical of the “hateful rhetoric” at McCain rallies.) A veteran of the 1968 civil-rights march with Dr. King across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, John Lewis has the kind of credibility on mob violence that John McCain has on torture.
We should listen to him very carefully.
By Kevin
October 13, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
I quite agree that Comrade Obama needs to be exposed on this con game. But I think it is too late for Senator McCain. We have too many air heads who are eagerly waiting for their welfare govt check from Comrade President Obama. I believe that the article in Investors Business Daily entitled Investors’ Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami” is correct in that some of this market downturn is the fear of Comrade Obama’s programs.
By cheery-O
October 13, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
So, Obama says this to a blue collar plumber when he was questioning Obama’s plan to raise taxes: “we are going to spread the wealth around — it’s good for everyone.” That is Marxism 101.
Perhaps that guy was really referencing the Democrats and Obama to let the tax cuts expire, which WOULD raise taxes on middle America. Some facts you won’t hear the Pelosicrats or Obama/Biden speak about:
When this tax shelters expire average US family will pay $2,500 more in taxes:
The Child Tax Credit will decrease from $1,000 to $500 a child
Income tax rates would rise around 3%-4.5%
AMT-Exemptions will decrease $6,500 per filer
Business tax expenses- Maximum deduction amount will decrease $75,000,from $100,000 to $25,000
Capital Gains- Rates will rise 10%-20%
Income tax burden-will raise about 5% for many workers
Marriage penalty created
Dividends-rates to increase from 15% to 40%
50% average increased tax rates on lower income houses
He may not raise taxes on average American, but by allowing tax cuts to expire, will raise household expenses on an average family.
It’s your choice America. Choose wisely.
By Robert
October 13, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
Dusty at 11:27 — You certainly have the right to think that Obama is the gamble here, but obviously there are others who feel differently. I feel comfortable with Obama although he wasn’t my first choice, but do not feel comfortable with Palin being a heartbeat away as they say. If I am not mistaken, polling has shown that Palin has not really brought independents or Democrats over to McCain so my guess is that come election day my point of view will be vindicated, in terms of who the public feels comfortable with. As far as the tired old “socialism” scare tactic used by the GOP when going up against a liberal Democrat, it would appear that this time around the public is either in no mood to entertain the smears, or, if you and others are right and Obama is a socialist, the public is now of a more socialist bent than in years past.
By Suffering Fools Madly
October 13, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
In other words, Voice of Reason, he he can’t be critiqued because he is black. Why don’t you just say that instead of posting warmed over left wing dribble.
By Ga Values
October 13, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:54
The article I posted simply put most of our problems with Saxby’s $700,000,000,000.00 Bailout+$153,000,000,000.00 pork rip off of the Taxpayer. We are in agreement on this but I am opposed to changing Axxounting Standards. The banks claim to not know know how to value these securities, so how can they value them? Are you avocating face value or some formula?? Please explain what you think should be done.
It’s hard to find a Lawyer who doesn’t think there were real crimes committed at Watergate & the cover up. You need to read up on that time.
By Support our troops
October 13, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
At a rally in Bethlehem, Pa. last week, Cindy McCain spoke about having two sons serving on active duty: “I’m proud of my sons, but let me tell you, the day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body. I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day, and see what it means.”
Never mind how many drinks are needed to erase the mental image of Barack Obama wearing Cindy McCain’s stiletto heels. The fact is — many military spouses support Obama-Biden, and they were deeply offended by Mrs. McCain’s outburst.
Let’s fact-check her remark, shall we?
Cindy McCain was referring to a single 2007 Senate vote: Obama voted for a war-spending bill that included language calling for withdrawing troops from Iraq; but later he voted against a version of the same bill because it no longer included the withdrawal language. “We must fund our troops, but we owe them something more,” Obama said at the time. “We owe them a clear, prudent plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else’s civil war.”
In other words, Sen. Obama wanted to fund the troops, he just didn’t support the flawed military strategy this particular bill would enable. (Previously, Obama had voted YES on at least 10 other war funding bills. For a lengthy list of John McCain’s NO votes on military funding, click here.)
“It ruffles our feathers when someone claims that Barack Obama doesn’t support the troops, because the Obamas have gone out of their way to understand the military, its families, and its veterans,” Stephanie Himel-Nelson, deputy director of outreach for Blue Star Families for Obama, told OffTheBus. “In fact, Michelle Obama has adopted military families as one of her causes.”
Would Cindy McCain “Change Shoes” With These Military Wives?
“When millionaires such as Cindy McCain act as if they understand our lives, and the lives of everyday military families and veterans, we get upset,” said Himel-Nelson.
Today the number of service men and women forced to deploy over and over again is unprecedented. Loneliness is leading to frayed marriages. Toddlers are just getting to know their parents when — poof! — mommy and daddy disappear to serve overseas again. Career paths are falling off track. Household budgets are in disarray.
Imagine what parenting must be like when one spouse keeps bouncing in and out of the picture. “It’s a delicate dance,” Heidi Goeman, Beaufort, SC told OffTheBus. “Kids change, rules change, and perspectives change while my husband is away. When he returns home, the lay of the land isn’t the same.” Goeman and her husband have endured four deployments together.
Many children are too young to articulate their response to repeated separations. “Our seven-year-old thought he was at fault for his dad’s going away, despite our best efforts to prepare him,” said Goeman.
Deployments Are Lasting Longer, Coming Closer Together
Casey Spurr’s husband has been deployed three times. “Mostly I find myself saying ‘I wish your daddy was here’ when I really, really need to take a break, or when our son lets out a big belly laugh — he has the best laugh,” said the Virginia Beach, Va. resident. Spurr told OffTheBus, “Obama proposes a Military Family Advisory Board, which I think is long overdue.”
The number of Navy and Air Force vets re-deployed to fill gaps in Army units on a one-off basis — with just a few weeks of combat training — continues to grow. “The Navy is providing manpower because the Army doesn’t have enough troop strength for our front lines,” said Vivian Walker, a Navy veteran and military spouse who is using her GI Bill benefits to earn a Ph.D. in public administration and urban policy.
Walker confesses she forgot her wedding anniversary amid the chaos of managing work and family by herself. “A big paper was due, I was trying to find a Halloween costume for our four-year old, my mother was visiting…the list goes on, but I’m not complaining. The only time I get upset is when I feel I have to defend my patriotism if I vote for Obama. I live this war daily. My support for the troops is all-consuming.”
Maria Arwitz’s husband is a Navy dentist who was onboard the USS Comstock when it delivered a marine corps unit to Afghanistan in 2002. Three years later he was sent to Iceland for 11 months, something that “probably would not have happened if Navy Medicine wasn’t stretched so thin,” Arwitz told OffTheBus. “He deployed right after one of our 10-month-old twins underwent heart surgery. It taught me a lot about how strong a military mom has to be with no family around.”
Arwitz likes that Obama believes all Americans are entitled to quality health care. “The conditions at Walter Reed Hospital really infuriate me. I feel connected to these troops when they return home — I shop with their wives at the commissary, my kids play with their kids on the playground. You wouldn’t believe what some families are going through,” said the Beaufort, SC resident.
The Rub: A Lack Of Honesty From The Bush Administration
Obviously there is a need for some level of military secrecy. But to what degree should families allow themselves to be kept in the dark?
“We want to know that the sacrifices we make are for a reason. That when our family members are in harm’s way, they are protected as much as possible. That the leaders who deploy them will bring them home as soon as possible,” said Bella Harris, Chesapeake, Va. She is married to a nuclear power officer on board the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier based in Japan. Harris told OffTheBus she admires McCain, but is voting for Obama because “he has a better plan for health care reform, and a more experienced running mate.”
Kathy Roth-Douquet, Beaufort, S.C. has lived in six places on three continents since she married a marine corps officer 11 years ago. “Our fourth-grader has attended six schools because of all the moves, but it’s a source of pride that we were asked to do something difficult and found the resources to do it,” she told OffTheBus. Roth-Douquet is the author of AWOL, a book about the unexcused absence of America’s upper classes from military service and how it hurts the country. Recently she co-produced a video featuring military wives for Obama, after co-founding (with Laura Dempsey) a grassroots organization of military families called Blue Star Families for Obama.
All of these women respect McCain for his Vietnam-era service, but they believe Obama has the temperament to safely lead the United States out of the quagmire in the Middle East. “One doesn’t have to join the military to serve their country — nor does serving in the military necessarily qualify one to be president,” said Walker. They trust Obama to use diplomacy, not just military might.
For The Record, Mrs. McCain…
The non-partisan group Disabled American Veterans gives John McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans’ issues. (It gives Barack Obama an 80 percent rating.)
The non-partisan group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gives McCain a “D” grade for his voting record on issues such as additional funding for combat body armor, and additional funding for post-traumatic stress disorder and other medical treatment. (Obama earned a B +.)
By Mike D.
October 13, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
Jeffrey M. Frederick, Chairman of the Virginia GOP has just likened Obama to Bin Laden. If McCain camp can’t stop the hateful rhetoric spewed by its surrogates, terrible consequences could result. The Republican Party could end up with blood and shame on their hands. McCain’s best bet is to get back to the very real issues that are causing so many of us to loose sleep and savings. He may not win the election but he could regain some of his honor.
By jm
October 13, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
what Senator McCain might try is to run to the middle. Running to the far right like he has is just driving away the independents he needs. Also, people are more likely to vote for someone who offers hope than someone who offers fear. McCain and Palin are trying to scare people into voting for them
By hotlanta
October 13, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
Those folks at the tallies should have ben telling McCain we need to get rid of those financial terrorists at Lehman Brothers and AIG that has this country in a bind. It is just amazing how Timothy McViegh can blow up a whole building and he has never been called a terrorist. Obama has a strange name and he is called a terrorist. McViegh was called a disturbed individual but the healdines never said TERRORIST and there was never any racial profiling of white men.
By hotlanta
October 13, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
Those folks at the tallies should have ben telling McCain we need to get rid of those financial terrorists at Lehman Brothers and AIG that has this country in a bind. It is just amazing how Timothy McViegh can blow up a whole building and he has never been called a terrorist. Obama has a strange name and he is called a terrorist. McViegh was called a disturbed individual but the healdines never said TERRORIST and there was never any racial profiling of white men.
By Conservative Not NeoCon
October 13, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
People Need to Focus on Issues not Fear
I supported John McCain in 2000, I know McCain at one time in 2000 was a man of his word and he had credibility then, but the same Rovain Bush/Chaney goup that smeared him then is running his campaign now. This is the same group that lied to us about the war in Iraq and recklessly let Wall Street runamok.
It is a big disappointment that John McCain choose this path and I only saw a glimpse of the old McCain when he made an effort to correct and calm the fearful mob that thought Obama was some Arab Terrorists and not an decent American candidate whose policies he has some disagreements with.
Sara Palin gave us all excitement when she came on the scene, but she turned out to be a vacuous politician who the NeoCons exploited (with her permission) and she failed miserably to promote McCain during the debate as she continues to fail him now, with her per diems, troopergate, Todd Palins involvement in AIP and Gov. work and meetings, those awful interviews and the vanity of fuming over a flawless photograph on Newsweek when America is suffering over their 401Ks. One can go on and on about the skeletons in ALL the candidates running and scream hypocracy until we are sore.
The truth is, one cannot deny that it is this team that voted for Bush/Cheney twice. And that McCain went against his independent streak when you see him endorsing GW Bush time after time and voting with his policies, time after time. Dispite how much we would like folks to base their vote on FACT CHECK.ORG there is an undercurrent of fear fed by the lowly Rovian advisors in the McCain camp. It is McCain that failed America when he chose Palin as VP and when he chose to hire these guys to run his campaign . Compound that with the policies and issues, is it no wonder many people want to go with a focused, reasonable and cohesive team like Obama and Biden.
By Conservative Not NeoCon
October 13, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
People Need to Focus on Issues not Fear
I supported John McCain in 2000, I know McCain at one time in 2000 was a man of his word and he had credibility then, but the same Rovain Bush/Chaney goup that smeared him then is running his campaign now. This is the same group that lied to us about the war in Iraq and recklessly let Wall Street runamok.
It is a big disappointment that John McCain choose this path and I only saw a glimpse of the old McCain when he made an effort to correct and calm the fearful mob that thought Obama was some Arab Terrorists and not an decent American candidate whose policies he has some disagreements with.
Sara Palin gave us all excitement when she came on the scene, but she turned out to be a vacuous politician who the NeoCons exploited (with her permission) and she failed miserably to promote McCain during the debate as she continues to fail him now, with her per diems, troopergate, Todd Palins involvement in AIP and Gov. work and meetings, those awful interviews and the vanity of fuming over a flawless photograph on Newsweek when America is suffering over their 401Ks. One can go on and on about the skeletons in ALL the candidates running and scream hypocracy until we are sore.
The truth is, one cannot deny that it is this team that voted for Bush/Cheney twice. And that McCain went against his independent streak when you see him endorsing GW Bush time after time and voting with his policies, time after time. Dispite how much we would like folks to base their vote on FACT CHECK.ORG there is an undercurrent of fear fed by the lowly Rovian advisors in the McCain camp. It is McCain that failed America when he chose Palin as VP and when he chose to hire these guys to run his campaign . Compound that with the policies and issues, is it no wonder many people want to go with a focused, reasonable and cohesive team like Obama and Biden.
By @@
October 13, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Jim:
The problem for McCain is he can’t use the unpopular word “welfare” without the risk of being called a racist, lacking in compassion, someone detached from human suffering.
OBlahMa, on the other hand, can craftily disguise his intent with “words that matter” only for HIMSELF and the Democratic Party. A necessary component in selling his economic toxin is to appeal to the most simple-minded dreamer.
When I can catch it, my favorite financial program is The Journal’s Editorial Report. I watched it Saturday night. The transcript more clearly delineates HIS (OBlahMa’s) intention.
Barack Obama: I’ll give a middle-class tax cut to 95% of all workers… . If you make less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increase one single dime. Not your payroll taxes, not your income taxes, not your capital gain taxes, because the last thing you need is a tax hike in this economy.
Gigot: That was Democrat Barack Obama at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, this week, making the now-familiar promise his tax plan would not hurt the middle class.
Here with a closer look at what he is proposing, Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor Dan Henninger, columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady and assistant editorial page editor James Freeman
Mary, so Barack Obama says, tax cut for 95% of Americans, but there’s this other figure that he doesn’t talk about, which is that about 40% of Americans already have no income tax liability at all. So how does he give a tax cut to 95% of them?
O’Grady: Well, he’s actually giving them money, but it’s not really a tax cut. Most of what he’s offering are in fact tax credits. So whether you work or not, you’re going to get money. If you send your children to college, if you use child care, if you buy a clean hybrid car, these are the tax cuts which are in fact really just credits. They’re subsidies.
Gigot: Right, tax subsidies. But credits are supposed to be balanced off of, deducted from, your tax liability. If you have no tax liability, James, then how can you get these checks—how can you get this subsidy?
Freeman: This is kind of an unreported scandal that’s been going on in Washington. Politicians figured out that welfare is a bad word. Taxpayers don’t really like welfare. So they decided to launder it through the tax system, and they call them credits. What he’s doing is he’s expanding this. Bill Beach at the Heritage Foundation ran the numbers on Obama’s plan, and he says more than 10 million people are now going to be—versus today, are going to be collecting money through this system who paid no income taxes. So it’s just a welfare payment run through the tax system
His intention is to covertly suck us all into the welfare state for the good of HIMSELF AND his party. A state ownership society if you will.
Say hellooooooo to America’s Hugo Chavez, the leftist’s heroic dick-tater.
Buffoons electing buffoons with the help of ACORN who is also active in Venezuela’s elections.
In January of this year, ACORN member Jamie Partridge traveled to Venezuela for the World Social Forum. The WSF is an annual meeting held by social justice groups around the globe to coordinate campaigns, share and refine organizing strategies, and inform each other about movements from around the world and their issues.
By TV Junkie
October 13, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this
I did not think in the primary that McCain would be a good choice, and now that is being proven. He simply has no fire in the belly to fight for this. It’s like a football game where there has been some back and forth on the scoreboard, and now it’s late in the 4th quarter, and the announcer in the booth says, “it’s anybody’s game, we’ll just have to see who wants it more.” Obviously, B. Hussein wants it more, and that’s a shame. The only silver lining is that maybe with the economy in such sad shape, we will at least get a reprieve on the installation of the Obama / Pelosi / Reid socialistic agenda.
On a related issue, I cannot believe the hate by the libs for Sarah Palin. I’m not a huge fan of hers, but at the same time I don’t hate her either. She’s not great, and she’s not terrible, but she is ok. Certainly no worse than Joe Biden. And why do so many people think that John will be dead before 2012? His mother is still alive!
By Boycotting Bookman
October 13, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
Europe is guaranteeing inter-bank loans? Europe? You mean the continent where every couple of generations the maps change?
What if the fix fails and the countries are toast? Doesn’t anyone understand that by transrorming economic stakes into geo-political stakes, that a new powerful warrior can emerge in the wasteland of countries that will fall like dominoes if the fix fails.
And what is the fix? Just to encourage the exact same banking practices that got us in the mess. It’s like everyone’s gone mad, and we’re rushing toward doomsday, devil take the hindmost.
We cant drill our way out of this. We cant bill our way out of it, and we cant kill our way out. We cant chant our way out, or rant our way out, or even depant our way out, although that’s starting to sound like a good idear.
Now I know what Napolean meant when he thought that his era was the best time to be alive. Hitler thought that too. In fact, anytime there was cartographic instability, some uber-military strategist with a maverick understanding of war took over Europe.
War. What is it now? Is it simply an army in postition? Or is it more like 911.
If Europe is flushed down the toilet with the next crash, then a power vacuum will provide the stage for…..the antichrist? a new napolean, who could it be? Nobody comes to mind. I dont know, could it be……me?
That’s right, me! I’m taking over. Put em up, put em up. I’ll fight Europe with one hand tied behind my back. I’ll fight ‘em with one eye closed. (Blink). Oh, sneeking up on me eh?
Put ‘em up.
By Country First
October 13, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Come on America and fight with John Mccain to take this country in a new direction. John McCain is a true hero and is not afraid to fight. He will fight his first day in office. Fight, fight, fight. Put a true hero in the White House.
By RealityCheck
October 13, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
It is good to know that the right wing zealots will be crying on November 4th. Your payback for what you have done to this country for the last eight years is coming.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 13, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
Dear Lauren @ 12:28, without mocking you for what you do not know, I urge you to read “Silent Coup.” President Nixon’s paranoia was not a meaningful element of the case, as his real problem was that he had a crooked counsel. Unless your description of Watergate begins with “John Dean wished to know whether his fiancée was participating in a call girl ring operated out of the democrat national committee headquarters,” you don’t know anything that you think you know. Just examine the forensic evidence therein – too bad we did not have all of these “crime investigation” shows back then, to teach people what to look for. As to my description – “faux scandal” – that is really a comparative term, when I look at what the democrats have given us with FNMA and FHLMC. Watergate is nothing by comparison.
As to your 12:52 post, rather than seek wisdom from President Carter on Iraq, why not consult the thoughts of the newest honoree, quoted in my 8:59? A fellow who had reason to know. You leftists need to get away from that cult worship, and start looking at the facts on the ground. Perhaps you agree with Algonquin @ 12:52 -“(President Bush) engineered a terrorist attack upon his own country.”
Dear GA Values @ 12:48, “Are you avocating face value or some formula??” Just book value – original purchase price for the statement. The market is artificially low at this moment, due to the lack of any market at all. I would not have any serious problem using the actual rate of return and imputing a value based on market value of similar securities. However, marking to market, when there is no market, falsely understates value. Unless the bank acts to recognize the loss – i.e., sell – there is no reason to mark it down until losses mature.
As to Watergate, perhaps you misread my post – I called it a faux scandal, I did not affirm there was no crime. There is no question that John Dean launched an illegal break in, then concealed the nature of his crime from many people, notably including the mastermind of the burglary, Gordon Liddy. I hear Liddy discussing his crime, matter-of-factly right after he emerged from prison. It was only later, after he saw the Silent Coup evidence that he became so enraged with Dean. Liddy was perfectly willing to conduct an espionage operation to ensure the nonelection of a committed leftist, but he was humiliated to discover he was went to jail for spying on a crook’s girlfriend. By “faux scandal,” as I explain to Lauren, I am comparing Watergate to large criminal acts, like Abscam or FNMA. I urge you to read up on it sometime – with all due respect, you don’t know what you think you know.
Dear Support @ 1:49, last numbers I saw were 70% McCain, 30% Obama.
By mark bright
October 13, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
I will never forgive Alaskans for their part in this dreadful campaign. I don’t care how dark and cold and bored they were, there was no excuse to encourage this woman.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 13, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
The Republinazis are way behind in every poll we know of. What we haven’t been told is there’s a secret poll, conducted by the Republinazis, that indicates the election is lost for Mc Shame. With the prospect of Democrats taking complete charge, there’s only one avenue left to go down. TERRORIST ATTACK! It will happen shortly. George W. hitler can not risk the Democrats winning and repealing his pardon for the crimes against humanity he’s guilty of. The attack will come within the next two weeks and the election will be suspended by G.W.H. The Republinazi Party will embrace the suspension as ‘the patriotic thing to do.’ Don’t believe it? There are no depths to which the Republinazis will not sink, You can believe that!
By RealityCheck
October 13, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
It is good to know that the right wing zealots will be crying on November 4th. Your payback for what you have done to this country for the last eight years is coming.
By Tailgater
October 13, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
TERRORIST ATTACK! It will happen shortly under an Obama presidency. It will be an attack on the american taxpayer.
By Analchord
October 13, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
I look at names, like hitler, napolean, taras bulbar, I mean the best part of pillaging civilization is coming up with a really great name. Hannibal. Attila. The Ice Capades. Leona Helmsley.
But I like analchord. I think it’s scary and mean and evil and everything. The age of Analchord! Imagine the history books, “Yeah, the world was getting along pretty good and societies were prospering and moving slowly but surely toward universal justice, when Analchord came along and ruined it all, the jerk.”
You know the hardest part about taking over the world is where to start. The first think I want my army to do is to cut off the world’s supply of StoveTop Stuffing.
You all have your orders.
By MikeB
October 13, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
Never any racial profiling of “White Men” Hotlanta???
What do you call affirmative action?
For all of you claiming the pious Rep. John Lewis should be listened too……. Are you the same people that are gonna be out in the streets rioting if McCain wins(like after the Rodney King verdict).
Neither John Lewis nor Barrack Obama are the Messiah’s of anything. Neither is John McCain.
John Lewis is so far from relevant on anything economic in nature, he has to find a way to keep his name in “lights”.
Barrack Obama’s economic policy is so entrepenurial stifiling, and so anti business, that it will make every citizen who is not a gazillionaire, loose the ambition to become one, and turn into a ward of the federal governement. They will be so fearful of loosing what little lifeline they have, that they will vote to keep trudging down the reliance on government for everything road.
I feel compelled to reprint Trowl and era from earlier today:
By Trowel and Era
October 13, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Raising taxes will be small potatoes comparted to wholesale revamping of the government designed to keep Obaman and his minions in power indefinitely. Count on a stacked Supreme Court, abolishment of all term limits, a rewritten Constitution, and all school kids singing daily praises to Our Dear Leader. The United States Socialist Republic is in the making. You fools are bowing down before a false idol.
C cheery-0 also had some accurate points
By cheery-O
October 13, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
So, Obama says this to a blue collar plumber when he was questioning Obama’s plan to raise taxes: “we are going to spread the wealth around — it’s good for everyone.” That is Marxism 101.
Perhaps that guy was really referencing the Democrats and Obama to let the tax cuts expire, which WOULD raise taxes on middle America. Some facts you won’t hear the Pelosicrats or Obama/Biden speak about:
**When this tax shelters expire average US family will pay $2,500 more in taxes:
The Child Tax Credit will decrease from $1,000 to $500 a child
Income tax rates would rise around 3%-4.5%
AMT-Exemptions will decrease $6,500 per filer
Business tax expenses- Maximum deduction amount will decrease $75,000,from $100,000 to $25,000
Capital Gains- Rates will rise 10%-20%
Income tax burden-will raise about 5% for many workers
Marriage penalty created
Dividends-rates to increase from 15% to 40%
50% average increased tax rates on lower income houses**
He may not raise taxes on average American, but by allowing tax cuts to expire, will raise household expenses on an average family.
It’s your choice America. Choose wisely.
Lets face it. No Obama supporter at this point is gonna change their mind and likewise for McCain.
Areasonable person can present all the information for their side in an appropriate format, as I have tried to do with Trowel, and cheery’s posts. This is important information and on point in a big way.
Folks for Obama can ignore it, trash it, try to diffuse it by the old tactic of linking McCain to Bush, try and switch the focus to Gov. Palin’s inexperience while ignoring Obama’s and insult the posters all they want. But its the truth
In the end you don’t hear about McCain consorting with convicted felons and unrepentant terrorists. Its only Obama that does that.
The only thing you can sling at McCain is that he is a republican and so is Bush. Bush made mistakes, but he also did some things right, and was the right President to have in place during the 9/11 tragedy.
he has always put country first( some times in very misguided ways but has always thought about us, vs. changing things to keep himself in power).
If McCain wins—— Watch the hatred boil from blacks and the liberal left.
If Obama wins—— Watch your livelyhood go up in smoke, as jobs leave this country in droves, and normal people become wards of the Federal Government.
America country wide will look just like the South Side of Chicago if Obama Pelosi Ayers, Reed, and ACORN have anything to say about it.
Me I can deal with the hate from the left under a President that knows, but may not speak as well as a slickster from the Chicago Machine.
Its called keeping more of what I earn, personal initiative/responsibility for it, and success in my endevors with minimal Federal Governemnt interference vs. Federal Government handouts and involvement in every part of my life.
McCain/Palin 2008
By Mr Snarky
October 13, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
My advice to Johnny Mac is hire Jim Wooten onto your staff. Then you’ll definitely lose and we’ll be rid of him.
By Shrugging Atlas
October 13, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
Good back peddle Ragnar, almost sounds like “what I meant was the American worker is strong”. Everyone knows what you meant, just like everyone knows McSame has no clue what he’s saying from one moment to the next. It’s obvious to all, that you, Jim, and Dusty are lost in a fairytale world, and feel like your superiority allows you to say anything regardless of truthfulness or credibility. The one who showed a level head in this crisis has been Obama and that is reflected in the polls.
Jim, Dusty and yourself have shown your true colors once again. You don’t want to actually talk about the issues, and you don’t want your candidate to talk about the issues. Your adivice is for the McSame ticket to talk about what’s wrong with Obama’s plans, and who he “associated” with in the past. This would have been your chance to step up and tell your candidate to talk about how good his own plans are. But he can’t, and you don’t want him to because you know his plans are worthless.
By EW
October 13, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
Let’s have a real reality check here
Obama is going to say what he thinks is the best way to get him elected. ie. giving to those who do nothing and taking from those who work hard.
McCain will say what he thinks is the best way for him to get elected. ie. breaks on the the greedy and powerful while not really showing much interest in the workers and below.
In reality what they will do just what every other president outside of Ragan has done for the economy…nothing. Face it people, WE got ourselves in this and the govt is not getting us out. Vote for who you most closely agree with and feel good about it, cause in the end it means nothing. Blame the GOP, blame the Dems but in the end until we the people stand up and take personal responsibility for things we will stay in the mess we created.
By Bubb Rubb
October 13, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
That’s only in the mawnin’.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 13, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
EW, quit blaming the victims! The American people have been robbed and swindled by the Republinazi Party. Time for them to go to jail!
By cc
October 13, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
yeah, good advice, that’s exactly what a real man would do, let a woman do all his dirty work for him. just when did Jesus give Christians the right to be so mean, so exclusive and so closed-minded? none of that sounds like Jesus at all, but it’s what I see from the right. I admire some things about McCain, I do think he is a tough guy and tried to serve his country and got caught up in the worse part of military service, prisoner of war. but I don’t agree that he is a war hero. it takes more to be a war hero than getting one of our multi-million dollar aircraft shot out from under you. and when he was in the POW camp, just like everyone else, he gave more than name, rank and serial number. a very important rule to obey in the UCMJ. that is a Captain’s Mast offense if anyone wanted to press the matter. eventually everyone breaks during interrogation, not faulting him for that, but it seems that the status of military hero requires more than what he did. I admire his ability to hang in there through all that crap, tough guy, but not an Audie Murphy. those that are taken prisoner are used as tools against us in efforts to hurt our country during time of war. sometimes a hero is somebody that doesn’t let the enemy take him alive. not pretty idea, but war was never meant to be sexy.
By Ga Values
October 13, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
Ragnar Danneskjöld 2:46 PM
“Dear GA Values @ 12:48, “Are you avocating face value or some formula??” Just book value – original purchase price for the statement. The market is artificially low at this moment, due to the lack of any market at all. I would not have any serious problem using the actual rate of return and imputing a value based on market value of similar securities. However, marking to market, when there is no market, falsely understates value. Unless the bank acts to recognize the loss – i.e., sell – there is no reason to mark it down until losses mature.”
If you will buy stock in a company with this kind of Accounting, Do I ever have a deal for you..1 of our local bank has 90% of it’s loans nonperforming, you could buy them all @ 50%. The banks are trying to with hold information, it’s a RTC trick.
By Stan Albretchtsen
October 13, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this
The U.S. Census Bureau today revised the population of Delaware to one. Seems there was one resident using multiple names, such as Algonquin J. Calhoun, Analchord and 853,474 more.
Sharing this information with the Federal Elections Commission, it was discovered Joe Biden actually still lives in Scranton.
By MikeB
October 13, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
Who Obama associated with in the past,and who he associates with today, are influencing his policies……
Just like you libs try to condemn McCain for voting with Bush and pressing that association, you must give equal weight to the terrorist who helped kick off Obama’s political career, and his influence over Obama in doing so.
To ignore this very valid point is to basically say Obama can do anything he wants, and you won’t raise any type of red flag…… If you fall into this catagory, you are brainwashed.
Look Obama’s a smart guy. Anyone can see that, but he does not have a crystal ball that nobody else has. If he had original thoughts he would be the auther of many bills as a U.S. Senator. Don’t see em….
His platform is the creation of others behind the scenes who have had in some cases interests counter to the good of America, and in other cases personal greed at the expense of America (ie; Mr. Raines of Freddie Mac, or Fannie Mae- I forget which).
Obama is just a slick energetic talking head.
McCain is an experienced leader who has the security clearance, the respect, and requires no “on the job training” to deliver his agenda.
An agenda that will benefit Americans who take initiative, make something of themselves and want to keep more of what they work for.
By SaveOurRepublic
October 13, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
Once someone has sold their soul the Globalist Elite, there’s no more “advice” for them to take…only marching orders from their Ma$ters. Thus is the case with (both) “Juan McAmnasty” & “Bacrock Obumma”, both puppets of the Internationalists.
Algonquin J. Calhoun @ 12:52 PM - Good reference to the Neocon’s false flag used as a pretext for Globalist Empire building & a Orwellian police state (while stampling Constitutional rights).
GJ @ 1:11 PM - You’ve got to be kidding!?! Even most Neoconned Republicans know that Rudy “Ghouliani” is a RINO at best and at worst/truth is a 9/11 profiteer. Ghouliani has made millions off books, appearances, contracts for his firm…all of the blood of 9/11 victims. I wouldn’t doubt that scumbag was complicit in the 9/11 false-flag (either prior knowledge &/or planning thereof). Just ask yourself…”Cui bono”??
http://www.seeloosechange.com
By Peter
October 13, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Hey Mike B…………McCain is an experienced leader who has the security clearance, the respect, and requires no “on the job training” to deliver his agenda.
You can Keep his agenda……..
Americans do not want HIS AGENDA !
By Analchord
October 13, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
What capitalism is doing now is betting itself against the total breakdown in law and order that will occur if this last desperate gamble to ward off economic ruin fails.
Nothing less than the continuation of our entire set of values and beliefs is at stake.
And look at our leaders. Look at what we hope gets perpetuated: W, McCain and his mob-think encitements to hatred and prejudice. (McCain is a decent man, and i think he feels stung by his own reflection in the face of that mob).
And a Obama. A smooth talking, delightful fellow, on whom the left is betting everything. The sense of do or die is overwhelming here.
Is every election cycle like this? Or is there something in the air? IS there some turning of the wheel here? Are we on the cusp of the new era, either stable and prosperous, or catastrophically ruinous?
The fact that we dont know is enough to unsettle the most confident among us.
Is this time different?
By reader110
October 13, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this
On Friday Michigan’s former GOP governor William Milliken started backing away from the guy he endorsed.
“He is not the McCain I endorsed,” Milliken told a local paper. “He keeps saying, ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ I would ask the question, ‘Who is John McCain?’ because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.
“I’m disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues.”
Frank A. Schaeffer, a McCain friend and former supporter (McCain blurbed his book on military service), has denounced the McCain campaign in a Baltimore Sun Op-Ed he cross-posted on Open Salon.
“Stop! Think! Your rallies are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs,” Schaeffer warned. Strong words, but he’s right. Even former McCain staffers like Mike Murphy and John Weaver are criticizing the tenor of the campaign. As David Gergen said on CNN Thursday night: “There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we’re not far from that.”
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
No repuke has addressed the accusation that McInsane is, well, insane, so I repost it here: Mental instability runs in McCain’s family…His father, the Admiral, committed suicide. Do we really want a suicidal madman to have his finger on the nuclear button? I think not…..
By H.I. McDonough
October 13, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
Actually, Pete, that’s not factual. Polls indicate about half the country, which, I suspect includes a few Americans, do want McCain’s agenda. Thanks for venting though. I think they have a special place in the paper for that.
By Peter
October 13, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
OK……………By H.I. McDonough …………….Actually, Pete, that’s not factual. Polls indicate about half the country, which, I suspect includes a few Americans, do want McCain’s agenda……….
Show us which polls you are talking about….. ?
“FOX NEWS ” ?
By MV7
October 13, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
Jim you need to put a liberal screener on your comments section just like google is using these days with their email. Its pretty simple, before they can submit their childish, public school educated, labor uion rants they must answer a few simple math and geography questions. We will start with math: ! Obama plus 1 Ayers plus 1 Wright equals how many racist? Correct answer….3! Now for geography: Which planet is Hollywood on? Correct answer….. Uranus. No government educated liberal will get the answer and we can all have peace in right thinking land.
By Boots
October 13, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
It’s really quite humorous the way Republicans “Swift-boat” candidates and use the tactics of Karl Rove to assassinate character with rediculous charges, but squeal like a stuck pig when someone refuses to roll over and gives as good as he got.
McCain and Palin cannot compete in the arena of ideas so have reverted to cheat tactics and character assassination.
Un-freakin’-believeable; but quite expected!
By alan
October 13, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
Jim - The ONLY good advice for McCain at this point is to drop Palin, and bring on Romney as vp. It ain’t too late.Haha!
alan
By H.I. McDonough
October 13, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Well, golly, Pete, the mid-40s is about half. I didn’t say Obama wasn’t ahead. You’re delirious tone suggested no Americans favored McCain’s agenda, which is wrong. But, you know what, you’re probably right. By Election Day only Wooten, Dusty, Ragnar and Maniac is accurate will be the only holdouts. Yeah, I’m sure that will be the case. Heck, even McCain and Palin will vote for Obama. Yes, you’re right, as Americans those two will reject McCain’s agenda, too. It’ll only be those four who won’t embrace the Great New Deal for Society.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 13, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
Not even McInsane is dumb enough to take advice from the Idiot of the ajc….MV7 is the product of catholic education…he and the priest had a close and personal relationship…give me public education anyday over pervert priests (not to mention the lesbo nuns).
By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist
October 13, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
fire saxby here fire saxby now pay less
By CommunistAJC
October 13, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Lauren, Yasser Arafat also won the peace prize. So what is your argument? We all know that Jimmy Carter is a moron. And reading your comments I might add that you are as well.
By alan
October 13, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
MV7 @ 4:34 PM , If Obama is guilty of “associating” with Ayers, then why stop there? Let’s go ahead and categorize the ENTIRE University of Illinois as a terrorist organization FOR ASSOCIATING WITH AYERS BY EMPLOYING HIM FOR AT LEAST 10 YEARS. WHY SHOULD THEY KEEP HIM ON THEIR PAYROLL? Also, our own government should be “guilty” for funding University of Illinois for employing Ayers. Fair enough?
alan
By catlady
October 13, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
I don’t believe ANYTHING the Heritage Foundation puts out, not evenwhat day of the week it is.
If you want to see “creative bookkeeping”, see the last 8 years.
How did Sarah Palin live for 4 decades and not pay attention to anything further than the end of her nose? How on earth is she so consumed by minutinae about her city or state that she has MISSED what is going on in the US and has to take a “refresher/cram course?” And notice now instead of trying to talk about issues (they hve given up on coaching her) she merely has to attack and froth up the crowd?
By Debbie
October 13, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
I’m a southern conservative older woman who saw in rapid succession the assassinations of JFK, RFK & Martin Luther King. The last at least was by a nut who thought he was saving the country from blacks taking over. McCain witnessed this time in history and should be mightily ashamed for allowing his campaign to sink low into dangerous territory of demonizing Obama. McC’s backtracking, seemingly only because most people were offended and the strategy wasn’t working.
McCain should get rid of Palin, who is now even saying she was vindicated by AK report, when it states the opposite! And what about the “First Dude,” member of group advocating AK secession and proclaiming hate for the US. Get rid of them, Rove and advisors who have led McC so far astray. NOt sure this can make up for his bad bad judgement but better late than never. Otherwise he will not only lose but go down in disgrace
By MV7
October 13, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
Nope, not catholic just had parents who cared enough to educate their children not send them off to their daily liberal indoctrination of public school. And yea Alan we can go ahead and label UI a terriorist organization. You know my parents always told me….you are who you associate with (hang out for all you public school educated folks). If you felt like you didnt agree with someone you tended to keep away from them. Obama has a long list of “associations” which are questionable. Fine if he talked to them every once in a while I can handle that. But when you go to Wrights church for 20 years and hes your spiritual leader thats more than casual association (hanging out). Ayres launched his political campaign. I dont buy for one second that Obama has less than a “casual” association with him.
By Amuse me
October 13, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
Sara Palin’s grandbaby daddy looks like Mitt Romney
By Peter
October 13, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Well……….By H.I. McDonough ….I am pretty sure he will get the votes locally you are talking about………Maybe Jim will vote differently……. He will realize in a moment of brilliance…..Plain doesn’t even have the capability to Run Atlanta, never mind the country………
Question..since you are a Palin fan………..does the city of Waleska have a sewer system ?
By buck
October 13, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
JIM you sure got a bunch of folks on the blog today that would be a lot better off in kenya or africa where MANDELA IS IN CHARGE than to hang around here & p** off us normal thinking people
By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist
October 13, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
The AJC on Saxby’s sell out of the CONSERVATIVE Base..Saxby says no one is mad about His $700,000,000,000.00 bail out Wall Street + $153,000,000,000.00 pork SELL OUT. Fire Saxby Now,, Fire Saxby Now, Pay Less
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/10/13/electionchamblisssenate.html
By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist
October 13, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
When I wrote Saxby Chambliss the evening after he betrayed the best long-term interests of Georgians by voting for the Bailout Bill, I got a response from him the next morning. One line I found particularly amusing:
The bill that I voted for is not a bailout. H.R. 1424, “The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act,” is crafted to address the crisis; restore security for the American taxpayer; and return our nation to the strongest economic power in the world. And in the process this bill enables us to root out and punish those who cheated us all. (emphasis added)
It’s not a bailout. Oh good, because I was concerned there for a minute that it was. Since I now know the real name of the legislation, I can clearly see how it’s not a bailout.
That’s political jargon, and every one of us can see through that. Nice try though.
We all know that the media ran with this and slapped “Bailout” on it before our Senators could find a more palatable name for us to use for this bill. (Did the media finally get something right?)
Today I found this post by Jason Voiovich, which gives a fun look at how phraseology might have been chosen so that we would support what our Senators are doing.
As I sit here wondering what impact this whole $700 Billion “emergency economic stabilization” will have on the value of the dollars I earn (or how many more of them will be sent to the government in the coming years), I’m more than ready to have a little fun.
By H.I. McDonough
October 13, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
Pete, have you been drinking out of the sewer? One with lots of industrial discharge, perhaps? What does whether a small city in Georgia has a sewer system have to do with anything? Are you maybe trying to refer to Wasilla, Alaska? I don’t get you. And when did we get off to the bottom of the ticket instead of the top?
By By A Bob Of One
October 13, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
What we have here is a failure to see the Big Picture. Will America- a Capitalist Nation- built by indvidualism,sweat equity, inginuity, freedoms and dreams; survive past the expiration date of governments from the recorded history of Nations? I sure hope so; because these freedoms that we use and abuse, were given to us by those who gave the Ultimate Sacrifice. Men ,women, all races- they were all Americans- we are too! Rome declined, then fell, because Politicians became too powerful, taxes increased to an amount that punished the “Production Machine” and morality was sucked into an abyss.Are we there yet? Until we “Change” our direction, we are destined to become a Socialist European Copycat Nation. The Economy has taken center stage; we need a Leader not a Political Clone.In my opinion; that Leader should present an Economic Stimulus Platform this week, to include and not limited to, the creation of a Consumption Tax- such as the “Fair Tax-John Linder”, repeal the 16- amendment and abolish the IRS. If you have a blank reflection in your screen- look it up and do your own research. “Ones’ own effort builds Ones’ own foundation.” In a downturn economic situation we Do Not need higher taxes or increased income redistribution, hiding behind a mask of deceit. Unfortunately, the numbers have finally tipped the scale. The uninformed eligable voting masses will come out in single file by the thousands to cast their vote- a privaledge not a right. Supreme Court Ruling. This will determine if this Nation will remain a Sovereign Capitalist Society or will become a Socialist Satelite, leaning towards Marxist Philosophy. God Bless America! I Hope that we get better than what we deserve and I Pray that it is McCain/Palin!
By tucanofulano
October 14, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
I have long hoped that when a jerk is called a jerk because of his actions and words he might understand he is being called a jerk BECAUSE HE IS ONE and not because he is tall or short, fat or skinny, blond or bald, or white or brown or black.
Today we see so much “political correctness” what’s being said is ‘pap’.
By Frederick Douglass
October 14, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
You know it’s bad when the leadership of both the Skin Heads and the KKK is asking the McCain camp to tone down the racist rhetoric.
By Kim
October 15, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
I wish McCain would say he will cause the government to take criminal and civil action against all the people involved and who enjoyed financial benefits from CDO and CDS which has destroyed to US Economy.
By Kim
October 15, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
I wish McCain would say he will cause the government to take criminal and civil action against all the people involved and who enjoyed financial benefits from CDO and CDS which has destroyed US Economy.
By Kim
October 15, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
I wish McCain would say he will cause the government to take criminal and civil action against all the people involved and who enjoyed financial benefits from CDO and CDS which has destroyed US Economy.
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November 13, 2008 7:30 AM | Link to this
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November 13, 2008 7:31 AM | Link to this
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