Thinking Right

By Paul

October 18, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

My biggest concern is the media, which is where most of us probably get our information. It has become virtually impossible to know what is true. Commentary has even become a major portion in what many of us grew up thinking were hard news sources. Walter where are you now? Facts are distorted if not actually changed. Some Reporters advance their own agenda(s) by what they ask and the way they ask questions. I would give virtually anything to find a source that is committed to reporting only confirmed hard news be it in Print, or on TV or the Internet. Given true facts, I believe I can adequately make my own judgments. It is a shame not to read certain people or watch certain TV shows because you feel you know up front what their conclusion will be.

By GOPgirl

October 18, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

Finally, the facts laid out in simple, unquestionable fashion. If you are a hard working American, and proud of your country, there should be no question as to whom you would vote for!

By downtown guy

October 18, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

Thanks Jim, but No Sale! With all you wrote about, you failed to even once mention Sarah Palin. No way. No how. His judgement shows that he is unfit to lead this country at this crucial time.

By Ray

October 18, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

Paul,

Good example of your post. Today’s editorial by Bookman and Tucker are at almost exact odds to yesterday’s article in the Wall Street Journal on the future of this country under the Annointed One. And you know their spin.

By drew

October 18, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

And this is the best case you can make for McCain?

Screw all the ideaology and promises of both candidates…we all know politicians of every ilk will do/say alomst anything to get elected. I’ll base my choice on which candidate offers intelligence and a “steady hand”. McCain offers neither.

BTW, Colonel…are you going to be jumping over to Obama after your boy, Colin Powell, endorses him?

By No How No Way No McCain

October 18, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

McCain’s a relic. You right wingnuts might as well get ready. Game. Set. Match. Obama/Biden.

By NotAgain!

October 18, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Perhaps you have a point about John McCain’s qualifications as a well known and respected leader in the Senate and by our allies abroad. But he is 72 years old and has a history of cancer. Does Governor Palin, by any stretch of the partisan imagination, have anything close to the same gravitas?

By Curious Observer

October 18, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Wait! I’m so confused! For months I’ve read the argument that we have a do-nothing Congress, with the clear implication that the nation’s business could really get done if only Congress were as Republican as the administration.

Now I learn that we must have a Republican in the White House in order to counter-balance the Democratic tendencies of Congress, the nation’s business be damned. In other words, it’s good to have a split of power.

Methinks a tone of desperation is setting in as Wooten begins to comprehend the reality of the forthcoming election. I hope all you Republicans will have fond memories of sticking it to us for the past eight years. In another four months, it will be your turn in the barrel.

By ron

October 18, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Good morning Jim,I agree with you that we need McCain and not Obama in the White House.We don’t need an Omama,Pelosi,Reid combination.That will be disaster.

I was once involved with a union that required it’s members to vote in public and I can tell you that the union reps were more mobsters than union people.Their agenda was not in their member’s best interest.I was also involved with the I.B.E.W. for several years.Those two unions were worlds apart.They’re not all bad ,Jim,and they are necessary,as long as employers don’t see a need to treat workers like human beings.

Financial regulations and CEO pay?You want to continue to allow CEO’S to decimate their companies and walk off with large chunks of the stockholder’s money as a reward?What planet are you on here ,Jim,?Have you been reading what AIG has been doing since it got bailed out?Do you have any idea how far down AIG stock has gone,the number of dollars that have been wiped from portfolios by the actions of the leaders of this company?You want the status to remain quo?These CEO’S have had their run,as far as I’m concerned and it’s now time to bridle them and have someone else take the reins .

Obama’s tax cuts are going to be mostly fictional.A fairy tale.The next President isn’t going to have enough money to run the country.A tax increace on any section of the population will be devastating,but it would be so lovely to think of all the Hollywood people paying twice the tax they pay now after supporting Obama.Not worth destroying the country over though.

All in all,McCain is the logical choice from any perspective,but there a lot of people out there that think Obama is going to bring them milk and honey.He’s promising things that he can’t possibly deliver and I fear there’s going to be a backlash of epic proportions.Six months after being elected,if checks don’t start arriving,a President Obama will have riots on his hands to deal with.

By kate

October 18, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Mr. Bookman: I am undecided — but I recall your opinion was NOT to vote Democratic in 2006 — when there was the same chance to split the government between Dem. House/Senate and Rep. White House.

So I wonder what has changed for you that NOW you see the Dem. Congress coming in the tidal wave of change that will happen on Nov. 4th and you want us to split our vote.

Why was it okay to have the Congress and the White House Republican but it is NOT okay not to have both Democratic?

The last bastion of Republicans who are angry at their nominee is the “balance of powers” argument. Guess what — it is not working.

Your argument fails — miserably. Thanks for helping me to make up my mind. Obama-Biden 08.

By kate

October 18, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Mr. Bookman: I am undecided — but I recall your opinion was NOT to vote Democratic in 2006 — when there was the same chance to split the government between Dem. House/Senate and Rep. White House.

So I wonder what has changed for you that NOW you see the Dem. Congress coming in the tidal wave of change that will happen on Nov. 4th and you want us to split our vote.

Why was it okay to have the Congress and the White House Republican but it is NOT okay not to have both Democratic?

The last bastion of Republicans who are angry at their nominee is the “balance of powers” argument. Guess what — it is not working.

Your argument fails — miserably. Thanks for helping me to make up my mind. Obama-Biden 08.

By Redneck Convert

October 18, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Well, nothing’s been done in D.C. for the past 2 years on account of Congress is librul Democrat and My President is Republican. And that’s just fine with me. So let’s elect old man McCain so nothing will be done the next four years. That way, guvmint can be as useless as the t*ts on a boar hog and us taxpayers will be safe. You know good & well old man McCain is too stubborn to give in to anything the librul Democrats want and Congress ain’t about to give him anything he wants. So we get a Mexican stand-off up there and jbmlaw gets what he always says he wants, no guvmint except defense.

Trouble is, Congress don’t have to do nothing for My President’s tax cuts to expire. So at the end of 2010 AJC Commie and jbmlaw and the other big income boys see their taxes go up and there goes Trickle Down and any hope the rest of us have to benefit. It ain’t fair. I keep waiting for Trickle Down to work and now it won’t on account of the tax cuts going away. And those big oil cos. will probly stop drilling if the guvmint stops handing over billions to them. And then we will be in a fine fix, what with all the cars and trucks parked along the roads on account of no gas.

Anyhow, with old man McCain in the White House the little stems will stay alive. He won’t let the scientists do research with their little cells. Have a good day everybody.

By AmVet

October 18, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Curious Observer correctly notes the yellow journalist’s 11th hour desperation.

I am confident, it will become even more palpable in the next 17 days.

Typically, his entire column has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. Such barefaced and shallow pandering to his fellow hyper-partisans cloaked as “advice to the undecideds”seems likely to have the opposite effect. And he probably actually hurts the RINOs chances in Georgia by advocating for him. Especially to those undecideds who have ever read his ebullient, but boneheaded opinions. . As a true independent, I am exceptionally unimpressed with Sen. Obama and will not vote for him either.

Yet watching these horrific fraud conservatives, Bush/Cheney enablers and “Party first” Republicans pretend that they did not directly cause the current messes we face as a nation, should give any rational, patriotic American pause to consider that his “advice” is virtually worthless.

By Sick of Being Robbed

October 18, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Whether with a knife or gun, or via a tax increase like Obama WILL impose on us, these greedy, black Negro Savage will take money from people who worked for it by any means necessary.

By Sick of Being Robbed

October 18, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Whether with a knife or gun, or via a tax increase like Obama WILL impose on us, these greedy, black Negro Savages will take money from people who worked for it by any means necessary.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 18, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. “Thinkers” will vote McCain. “Feelers” will vote Obama.

Thinkers understand that all problems now extant in our country arise from government activities. Those malicious government activities are normally guided by those who still believe government does good things. Other than wiping out 50,000 Islamists, I cannot think of anything useful accomplished by government since 1989.

Neither of the presidential candidate can be called a conservative, so we are reduced to selecting the least of the evils.

Obama does not reflect any economic literacy in his programs. Only one totally unacquainted with economic history advocates increasing the government theft of capital at a time of slowing economy. “Spreading the wealth” is an economic philosophy that has failed everywhere attempted. Of course the leftists always rationalize the failure, using language such as “the wrong person tried it.” Obama would continue to be such a wrong person.

Even more distressing than his economic illiteracy is his naivete in international affairs. Obama clings to the failed attitude that magnifies the genius of the United Nations and multilateral conferences and the World Bank. I think Obama is not competent to protect the interests of free Americans.

Nevertheless, I would dishonest if I did not concede that Obama knows how to spark a Nuremberg-style rally. The chanting, swaying crowds certainly remind us of past overlords. But not for me.

By Road Scholar

October 18, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

You quote “build a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate to go with the dictatorial majority in the House”. Isn’t this the same senario the Repubs had in 6 of the last 8 years? And what did we get with the Repub president? Is it that this scenario is okay as long as your party is in control while it is not when your party is possibly the minority? Isn’t this two faced?

It would be nice to have a balance of power between the House, Senate and Presidency, but the Repubs have not EARNED that with their recent performance. The Dems need to show us more than they have (but at least they appear to be able to); possibly replacing Pelosi and Reid with other middle of the road leaders (ie Clinton in the Senate) We need to get er’ done in a way most Americans can suppot (forget the fringes).

You also write”government caused Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy riskier and riskier mortgages,”. I saw the frowns on those faces in the mortgage business as they led these lemmings to the bank to sign the loan papers. And their disappointment when they “bundled” these loans and sold them as a sure thing to others. Good business practices (making sure people qualify in the long run), ethics, and consciouses is what the banking industry did not use. Sure their was some fraud by home buyers, but the majority of the fraud was the business mentality of the industry. Get rich at all costs. Have you heard of anyone returning their commission for making a bad loan?

You talk responsibility, but do not know what it is. Or you ignore it when it does not facilitate your desired results. Stop the whining; let’s see what the election and the resulting actions of our new president (either side)are.

By Fed up Voter

October 18, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Why is it that the republicans always use the boogeyman to scare voters from democrats?

Ever since the communism fell, Republican pundits have been very creative about introducing new boogeymen, trying to scare people from voting for the democrats.

Higher taxes, threat of islamo-fascism, socialist agenda, bigger government, liberal and corrupt family values, gay marriage etc etc.. End is near if you vote democratic!

Guess what, the American public don’t want to hear those arguments anymore.We are almost bankrupt after 8 years of republican rule and nothing to leave to the next generations except massive debt piled up by the expanded Bush government.I’m voting for Obama and most of the rest of the country too. Republicans will continue to slide unless they drop their evangelical agenda and come up with logical arguments to solve the problems we are facing today. Obama persidency will be the biggest reaction of the public to the 8 years of failed republican agenda.

By Fed up Voter

October 18, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Why is it that the republicans always use the boogeyman to scare voters from democrats?

Ever since the communism fell, Republican pundits have been very creative about introducing new boogeymen, trying to scare people from voting for the democrats.

Higher taxes, threat of islamo-fascism, socialist agenda, bigger government, liberal and corrupt family values, gay marriage etc etc.. End is near if you vote democratic!

Guess what, the American public don’t want to hear those arguments anymore.We are almost bankrupt after 8 years of republican rule and nothing to leave to the next generations except massive debt piled up by the expanded Bush government.I’m voting for Obama and most of the rest of the country too.

Republicans will continue to slide unless they drop their evangelical agenda and come up with logical arguments to solve the problems we are facing today.

Obama presidency will be the biggest revolutionary reaction of the public to the 8 years of failed republican agenda.

By southside girl

October 18, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Hmm……no mention of Sarah Palin in the article. Why is that, Jim?

By CHIP S

October 18, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

28 Years of Republican Economics…

Even Alan Greenspan has said that, in terms of the economy, Bill Clinton was a Republican, because he signed the free trade deals that the Republicans had sought forever and which were passed by almost all Republicans in congress. If you consider Clinton a Republican economically, then we’ve had the last 28 straight years of Republican economic policies, Bush, Bush Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Reagan.

28 years of lessening corporate regulation, cutting social programs, cutting spending on public works, lowering taxes on the top 1% allowing more and more free trade and illegal immigration. Look where we are now.

By tar

October 18, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten,

It is okay for you to be a conservative and write in the newspaper. What is not okay, is for you to write false statements in order to justify your conservatism. Evidently, in order to write for the AJC, you do not have to provide facts nor be educated. Your column is titled, “Thinking Right”, I guess it is according to the Conservative Right, not in term with Thinking Accurately.

You and your column diminishes the Truth. Therefore, you should not write for a Newspaper, but for anyone who publish Fiction. I feel that this country would be better off, if individuals who wrote for newspapers and reported news would be factual and not fictional.

Thinking Right will continue to be a detriment to a Progressive Society. Because, Mr. Wooten, “Thinking Right” DOES NOT THINK and definitely IS NOT RIGHT. “Thinking Right” is written by someone “Thinking Wrong”.

By alan

October 18, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

In February 2000, after being criticized by religious conservatives, McCain gave a very angry speech in Virginia attacking leaders of the religious right as “agents of intolerance,” comparing them to Louis Farrakhan, accusing them of having “turned good causes into businesses,” calling them “corrupting influences on religion and politics” who “shame our faith, our party and our country.” It was a tantrum disguised as a campaign event.

By alan

October 18, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

In February 2000, after being criticized by religious conservatives, McCain gave a very angry speech in Virginia attacking leaders of the religious right as “agents of intolerance,” comparing them to Louis Farrakhan, accusing them of having “turned good causes into businesses,” calling them “corrupting influences on religion and politics” who “shame our faith, our party and our country.” It was a tantrum disguised as a campaign event.

This was printed in a Washington DC news paper. If you think McCain is for Christian views, think again.

By catlady

October 18, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

you are willing to forgo any effective checks and balances on their power

Like the way Bush and his minions have gutted checks and balances on their power the last 8 years (Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Wall Street Bailout, etc)

Quite a few things in Mr. Wooten’s column are true, just not true in the way he uses them. Remember the novel 1981—black is white, death is life, etc. We’ve “liberated” a lot of Iraquis by killing them, for example.

All in all, a very funny column.

By AmVet

October 18, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

CHIP S, you are correct.

And what about this supposed financial bailout? It is a fictional fix and is truly throwing money into a hole.

Let me see if I understand this correctly. We’re buying out bad credit? From uncredit worthy creditors? Yet they are the very ones who caused this “crisis”!

First they created false financial values. Then they extracted profits that didn’t exist. Then they exempted themselves from market disclosure.

In reality this is a bailout of the two Party political system which knowingly allowed and enabled it.

And it is the ultimate insult to the American people.

There were NO public hearings. No gathering of the best minds to find actual long term solutions.Or even someone who could discuss options and who would advocate for us taxpayers and consumers.

It was a backroom deal between George W. Bush and the Congressional Democrats. (No, Cheney was not involved int his one, he was in an “undisclosed location”!)

They shut out, and sold out the American people.

In 1775 there were 13 colonies under King George II. And in 2008, there are 50 colonies under King George IV.

This is taxation without representation.

By tar

October 18, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

By Sick of Being Robbed

You said, “Whether with a knife or gun, or via a tax increase like Obama WILL impose on us, these greedy, black Negro Savage will take money from people who worked for it by any means necessary.”

My answer to you is that your thinking is too stupid to believe. I would not say ignorant, because you probably know better, but do not have the mental capacity to do better.

First of all, I am a Black, but no black Negro Savage. I also work for my money. When I receive my pay statement, it does not say Black or White Tax, it has Federal and State Tax.

Believe me, in all likelihood you will not have your taxes increased under Senator Obama’s Tax Plan. I am positive that you do not have a Net Income of Over $250,000. Also, I am positive that you will receive a tax cut under Sen. Obama’s tax plan, if you file taxes. Under Sen. McCain’s tax plan, you would most likely receive a tax increase or a smaller tax cut. His plan calls for the people making the less to receive a smaller tax cut or no tax cut, than the people making the most. So before you write such Stupid, Incorrect Racist Garbage, you should research the facts of your subject. I will help you with your research. Log on to the Washington Post, Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain’s web site and read their tax plans.

Sick of Being Robbed, the only person that is robbing you, IS YOU, since you do not take the opportunity to educate yourself on the subjects. So stop blaming others for YOUR short comings.

By Redneck Convert

October 18, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Well, nothing’s been done in D.C. for the past 2 years on account of Congress is librul Democrat and My President is Republican. And that’s just fine with me. So let’s elect old man McCain so nothing will be done the next four years. That way, guvmint can be as useless as the t*ts on a boar hog and us taxpayers will be safe. You know good & well old man McCain is too stubborn to give in to anything the librul Democrats want and Congress ain’t about to give him anything he wants. So we get a Mexican stand-off up there and jbmlaw gets what he always says he wants, no guvmint except defense.

Trouble is, Congress don’t have to do nothing for My President’s tax cuts to expire. So at the end of 2010 AJC Commie and jbmlaw and the other big income boys see their taxes go up and there goes Trickle Down and any hope the rest of us have to benefit. It ain’t fair. I keep waiting for Trickle Down to work and now it won’t on account of the tax cuts going away. And those big oil cos. will probly stop drilling if the guvmint stops handing over billions to them. And then we will be in a fine fix, what with all the cars and trucks parked along the roads on account of no gas.

Anyhow, with old man McCain in the White House the little stems will stay alive. He won’t let the scientists do research with their little cells. Have a good day everybody.

By deegee

October 18, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

John McChange is the steady hand? Oh, really? In that debate on Wednesday night he looked like my dad when he would get really upset about something while we had company over for dinner. He would blink his eyes and show his clenched teeth behind an awkward smile while trying to express himself without exploding. When he would wriggle around in his chair we knew that he was suppressing some serious flatulence. Can you imagine blinky facing down an adversary? He’s no Ronald Reagan.

By getalife

October 18, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Funny as hell Jim. Hilarious. LOL.

By buck

October 18, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

John McCain has admitted to having an anger problem. Several fellow senators have expressed concern if John McCain ever gets his finger on the nuclear button. This is scary folks. John McCain is not the man we want in the White House. There are other choices on the ballot, you do not have to pick McCain. McCain will let Christians down, McCain is not a Conservative.

Sara Palin is a gimmick. Not qualified for President. This shows that John McCain will do anything to get in the White House. This is selfish and he has more interest in himself in the White House than America’s best interest. There are lots of qualified VP candidates in the Republican party. Palin is not one of them.

By Jim Jr.

October 18, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

8 more years - John (George Jr.) McCain
or 1 year of John and 7 years of Todd Palin

By getalife

October 18, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

White people gone wild:

“Matthews: How many Congresspeople, members of Congress are in that anti-American crowd you describe?

Bachmann: [Deer in the headlights]

Matthews: How many Congresspeople you serve with — I mean, there’s 435 members of Congress —

Bachmann: — well right now —

Matthews: — how many are anti-American in that Congress right now that you serve with?

Bachmann: You’d have to ask them, Chris, I’m focusing on Barack Obama and the people he’s been associated with —

Matthews: But do you suspect that a lot of the people you serve with —

Bachmann: — and I’m very worried about their anti-American nature.

Matthews: Well, he’s the United States Senator from Illinois, he’s one of the people you suspect as being anti-American. How many people in the Congress of the United States do you think are anti-American? You’ve already suspected Barack Obama. Is he alone, or are there others?

Bachmann: [Deer in the headlights]

Matthews: How many do you suspect of your colleagues do you suspect of being anti-American?

Bachmann: I would say, what I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look — I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think the people would love to see an expose like that.”

Hahahah. Hilarious. LOL.

By AmVet

October 18, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

tar, well said.

Though I believe he is not together representative of the Republican “base”, he is nonetheless a member in good standing of the “big tent” Party.

Not only do these “good” Republicans not loudly denounce him, they refuse to admit that he even exists in their ranks.

And sadly one of the more erudite/pedantic here actually find this disgusting “technique” oft used by TFTT for example, humorous.

By Litmus Test

October 18, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

It is pretty simple. Who do the enemies of America like Iran and al Qaeda want the next president to be? You can bet your a-s-s it isn’t McCain. That right there is enough to sway my vote. Democrat Acorn fraud or not:

Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect. I don’t know about you, but that makes me wonder what we don’t know about going on out there. Yes, I know, the Acorn investigation is all about racism and preventing the poor and minorities from voting; Bush is running the FBI investigation like a 1960s firehose and German sheppard attack dog..blah yadda blah. What else is new. (The fact that Bush kept Clinton holdovers in both the FBI and CIA is apparently not important to the brilliant liberals on the pathetic neo Stalinist left).

This presidential race has been uphill for Republicans from the getgo. The media helped elect the Democrats to the majority power in congress with their constant focus on Republican sex scandals and whatnot. Remember Foley and how much media he attention was on him? Well how many of you out there knew that his replacement, a DEMOCRAT, is also involved in a sex scandal? CNN and the AJC sure as hell won’t tell you about it:

The second sex scandal in two years in Florida’s 16th district could put things right back where they began: with a Republican congressman. ABC News reported Monday morning that freshman Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.) paid more than $120,000 in hush money to a former mistress and arranged for her to have a job at a political consulting firm.

You better believe had that been a Republican, you’d have heard it by now. Yeah I know, I can hear the disgusting liberal excuses now: “b-b-b-but it’s an election year for a president..b-b-b-but nobody cares about that now.” Hypocrites. Just look at what else Republicans have been up against. Just four years ago nobody ever even heard of the name Obama outside of Chicago thug-style politics. Today, this is what we have:

*Late night talk entertainment talk hosts slamming McCain and Republicans 7:1.

*School teachers suing when schools tell them to take down Obama posters in their classrooms.

*A freaking TEXTBOOK for 8th graders that has an entire chapter devoted to Obama. (Imagine the uproar from libs if it were about McCain - or Reagan).

*A media that has spent 75% of it’s focus this year on Obama compared to McCain.

*The slightest negative comment about Obama’s socialist/marxist policies deems one a racist.

*Hollywood slamming Republicans in everything from Law & Order episodes to the latest rotten sewage from Oliver Stone, “W”. (Is Bush running for a 3rd term or something??).

*Morning talk shows including The View have had three out of four political guests be Democrat.

*The lowest approval rating of congress in history has fallen under Nancy Pelosi’s watch, yet the main slime liberal media has ignored it.

*The loon liberal left and their beloved main slime media attempts to portray McCain as Bush III when just four years ago they were all praising McCain for being a “Maverick” and going up against both Bush and neocons in congress, while ignoring that McCain only voted 79% with Republicans whereas Obama voted with Democrats 96% of the time.

On and on and on and on. If Obama does NOT win, I would be shocked. Besides, with all of the above and then some, you’d think that guy would have a double digit lead in the polls, wouldn’t ya?

*Facts exposed by the Business And Media Institute

By alan

October 18, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

McCain wants to make all illegal aliens legal and give them Social Security. He sponsored the bill in congress folks. Is this a Conservative? He is a liberal.

He claims to be a Christian but will not be Baptized.

He will not tell anyone what he wants to do with Social Security. He says he will make hard choices; this means he will cut it. Same for Medicare. Seniors will be hurt.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 18, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

So McCain says he in not George Bush…He could have fooled me and 90% of other Americans…He is more of a midget George Bush…Only worse in his senality…His anti tax policy only applies to the top 95% of tax payers, but the liar never tells you that part. The Republican party is now and always has been the party of the BIG LIE. The only taxes they care about are the ones the top 5% of taxpayers can avoid.

By old91A10

October 18, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

i am finished with the democACORNrat socialist party. i would never vote for AYERS/DOHRN.

McCain Palin 08

zerObama is not fit to be

By Paul

October 18, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

An ANGRY John McCain with his finger on the NUCLEAR Button! Scary. There are a bunch of people running for President. You don’t have to pick McCain. I have already voted for Bob Barr.

By Tony

October 18, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Well, Jim I thank you very much. You just convinced me to vote for Obama with your anti-labor remark about the Employee Free Choice Act. You imply that Unionizing will destroy the businesses of this country, yet you fail to mention that during the most prosperous times this country has ever had the majority of the workforce was unionized.

All the employee free choice act will do is give employees just that, a choice. AND, if the employees DO decide to unionize, it will force people like Mr. Marcus to have to pay a decent wage and benefits, instead of coolie wages that non union employers pay now.

It is nothing short of amazing to me that greedy companies outsource their work to places like Mexico, Honduras, China, Vietnam, etc in the name of “cost cutting” but they conveniently forget to pass on those savings to their customers. Good example, Levi Strauss closed all their American plants and shipped off all the work to Mexico, but the price of a pair of jeans is more than it was before they did that. Where did this money go? In the pockets and offshore accounts of people like Mr. Marcus.

People are sick of it Jim. I was undecided until I read your commentary this morning. Thanks for helping make up MY mind.

Obama/Biden 08

By deegee

October 18, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Here’s what victory in Iraq looks like. This after mass protests in the streets by followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, who BTW is now living in Iran. Interesting that the Iraqi parliament must approve the agreement but the US congress doesn’t. Do the American people even care any more?

“Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government and the Bush administration have hammered out a draft agreement after months of bitter negotiations.

But the Iraqi parliament must ratify the deal and Iraq’s pre-eminent cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has said any accord must have national consensus.

Al-Maliki, a Shiite, could be politically isolated if he tries to win parliament’s backing in the face of widespread opposition.

Several Sunni and Shiite clerics, who wield considerable influence in shaping public opinion, also spoke out during Friday prayer services against the draft, complaining that the Iraqi public knows little about the terms.

A copy of the draft accord obtained by The Associated Press specifies that U.S. troops must leave Iraqi cities by the end of June and be gone by 2012. It gives Iraq limited authority over off-duty, off-base U.S. soldiers who commit crimes.

U.S. Congressional approval is not required for the pact to take effect, but the administration is trying to build maximum political support anyway.”

By Paul

October 18, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

McCain wants to legalize all the illegal Mexicans and give them your tax money - is this a Conservative?

By AmVet

October 18, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

getalife, is that the intelligent design in public schools science classes, amend the US Constitution to ban gay marriage, “stay the course”, ban all abortions, Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act (you can’t make this stuff up!), “Ten Commandments Rally” at the State Capitol, nuke Iran, Joe McCarthy emulator, Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota?

By Republicans R Crooks

October 18, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

When McCancerFace gets his fat, ugly butt kicked on 11/4/8, will the Idiot of the AJC do the honorable thing, and resign? I bet he refuses, not because he should refuse, but because he has no honor….

By Dusty

October 18, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Well, Jim Wooten has given us a thoughtful editorial to which I agree with full approval. Jim, like most intelligent people, recognizes that we need an experienced, decisive and strong man to lead our country; a man such as McCain.

Obama has none of those qualifications. His time as a government official is short. HIs decisions have been personal not strong professionally. He is anti-war, the very symbol of weakness and anti-resistance.

Obama’s friendships would scare most Americans who would have no dealings with the likes of Wright the hater, Ayers the radical “reformed” terrorist, or Rezko the crook. His “religion” seems to have changed when “necessary”. His wife shows no love for America. His “degrees” indicate intelligence but his decisions show something else.

I hope that I am wrong but I believe that Obama is the master of camouflage. His calm demeanor never cracks. His speeches are canned. His ability to charm a crowd is his main strength. And, as always, ambitious people promise great things. Obama’s plans to pay for them have long been discarded for failing. “Taking from the rich and giving to the poor” worked only for Robin Hood. Not in Russia, not in Zimbabwe and slipping away in Cuba and Venezuela..

Obama’s enchantment is scary. The cheering crowds go for the smile,the smoothness and the promises. They discard reason. “Pure” Democrats hope this is their chance for stronger power in the future, no matter the cost to the country.

McCain is the strong man in every way for this choice of a president. As Jim Wooten correctly concludes about McCain: * [He is]the steady hand the nation needs in a high risk world.* Absolutely!

By PJC27

October 18, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

McCains choice of a wackjob like Palin assured his ship would sink desite what “credential” he had. He has acted like a dementia patient since his selection of Palin. No safety in the pair.

Obama/Biden ‘08

By old91A10

October 18, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

Scary is:

Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright, Pfleger, Caldwell, McClurken, Daley, Lippert, …

Rezko, Blagojevich, Auchi, Johnson, Raines, Pritzker, Groelich, Axelrod, Gibbs, Dunn, (Susan)Rice, ….

Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Brazille, Dean, ….

Racists, Misogynists, Elitists, Miscreants, and Worse

i wouldn’t p*ss on anyone of them, even if his/her hair were on fire!

How about that ACORN? Election fraud & mortgage failures.

By George

October 18, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

In addition to his other deceptions, Obama smoothly passes himself off as pro-life and pro-marriage (i.e., oppossed to same-sex marriage). But he is radically pro-abortion, as shown by his opposition to the bill in Illinois requiring protection of infants born alive after a failed abortion and his support for partial birth abortion. These are only one step from infanticide.

On marriage, Obama says he is opposed to same-sex marriage. Yet he promises repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (signed by Pres. Clinton). This would impose 50-state same-sex marriage.

We can’t have any society whose economy and security are worth protecting if we don’t first protect life and marriage. Obama is a fraud.

By getalife

October 18, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

It is amazing Acorn was competent to catch the fraud and attacked for competence.

Also, McCain getting entitlements from Social Security and disability when his wife is worth 100 million.

We have socialism for the rich but our friends on the right ignore these facts in their arguments.

They got nothing but hate and division and could care a less about their country.

Country first is 100% bs.

By Chris

October 18, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Let us also not forget about the “Fairness Doctrine” which is nothing more than censorship. This will not only include talk radio, but also the Internet. It also leads me to wonder why the AJC has been so silent on this. Could it be the newspaper supports this censorship?

By Dusty

October 18, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,12:17

Do you not think it strange that 200,000 people in Ohio could not spell or write their own names on voter reistrations? That ACORN is OFTEN in court on evidence of voter fraud?

Do you think it strange that McCain gets veterans diability allotments because he was “disabled and tortured” for almost five years as a POW?

You do realize that Clinton and Obama will never get ANY veteraln’s benefits because they have NEVER fought for this country’s defense?

Do you know that the McCain family has started and established relief organizations around the world? Do you know how much the Biden family gave to charitable organizations last year? (less than $150.)

You just sit in front of your computer all day and plunk out any ol’ controversial crap that turns up.

What a hobby!!

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 18, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

By GOPgirl October 18, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this Finally, the facts laid out in simple, unquestionable fashion. If you are a hard working American, and proud of your country, there should be no question as to whom you would vote for!

So true! We don’t need any more Republinazi wars for oil. We don’t want our Constitutional rights taken away surreptitiously by a dictator pretending to be our savior. We don’t want or need taxpayer money redistributed from the poor and middle class to the already wealthy on Wall Street. We don’t want and will no longer countenance our government practicing the fine art of torture against those whom we hold prisoner! We are tired of being spied upon by our own government and we’re tired of being lied to by Republinazi criminals who seek to line their own pockets, and those of their friends, with money made from wars where American men and women die for no purpose other than to further enrich the already wealthy. Enough! Obama is the choice for America! The day of the Republinazi is over! Elect Obama and bring George W. Hitler to justice for his many crimes against humanity!

By AmVet

October 18, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Rep. Vito Fossella was convicted Friday of drunken driving in suburban Virginia, another blow from a late-night traffic stop that exposed secrets of his personal life and wrecked his career.

After a daylong trial at Alexandria General District Court, Judge Becky Moore found Fossella guilty of driving under the influence when he was pulled over for running a red light shortly after midnight on May 1. The arrest led to revelations that he had fathered a child from an extramarital affair, and he decided not to seek re-election. Fossella, New York City’s only Republican congressman, was first elected to the House in 1997.

Vito, maybe Karl Rove/Fox News will make you an offer you can’t refuse!

By Ayn Rand was Right

October 18, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

I am so tickled to see Georgian’s who think McCain is angry so they vote for Bob Barr… I suppose they aren’t gay, so he is not angry with them?

On the daily rant from Ayn… Once again, the liberals NEED someone to give them a hand up (or out) so they can elevate themselves to one of the prosperous ones. What they continue to miss is that once they have elevated there will be many below them who will continue to NEED the hand ups. There will always be someone richer and someone poorer. There will always be ambitious and lazy. The problem with the proposed system of spreading the wealth, is that the earners will tire of earning without keeping. Read Atlas Shrugged; even, Hank the most ambitious from rags to riches protagonist finally ceased to earn for others.

When Corporations and the wealthy are taxed beyond reason and the low wage earners are rewarded for not bettering themselves, earners will cease to produce, cease to hire and the world will stop.

As you laugh and enjoy the punishment forced on the earners, remember this is not earning you anything but a smug feeling that will not last. The $500 check Mr. Obama will give you, will not go far when you get your pink slip. Look at the industries who have experienced this socialism, such as the auto industry. There are several reasons why foreign car companies do so much better than the ones in Detroit. Mr. Obama wants to bring those very “reasons” to Washington.

If you want to join us…you know where to find us.

By Confident Humanist

October 18, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty:

It is your side — those small, stupid, morally corrupt petty officals like Karen Handel — that is trying to defile the essential promise of America to its citizens: specifically, as all of us have been created equal, all of us have an equal right to vote.

Bush/Cheney, as orchestrated by Rove, believe it is acceptable to break that promise in order attain power. (They also believe in the Unitary Executive, which in practice means the President can reject any law passed by the elected representatives of the people for any reason — a horrific denegration of our Constitution that appalls real conservatives — but another issue entirely).

Mine is a Gold Star family — but if my 88-year-old mother, born and raised in this country, lived in GA, she could not vote for lack of a proper picture ID.

I believe the right to vote is the most sacred of all our political compacts. If individuals or organizations seek to suppress this right, they should be resisted, with violence, if necessary.

For why are we sending our sons and daughters to die for Iraqi’s right to vote if we are not willing to die for our own?

— B.H.

By @@

October 18, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Good article Jim.

He’s different and sometimes confounding to his supporters

Which is exactly why I believe his misdirected intentions are rooted in integrity.

At a Londonderry, NH rally OBlahMa supporters shouted with enthusiastic adoration:

“We all love you Obama”, “I love you” and “We will work with you”

I’ve never seen, heard from, nor met a politician for whom I could proclaim love. My respect for self prohibits. There are, however, some politicians from both sides, who have earned my respect. That’d be the ones who put “Country First”.

My country ‘tis of thee

Sweet land of liberty.

By GayGrayGeek

October 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

@@ - I’ve never seen, heard from, nor met a politician for whom I could proclaim love.

Gee, when you’re posting using your DustBuster handle, you sure do SEEM to have a big ol’ Man-Crush on Shrub…

By jacksmum

October 18, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Confident Humanist - why don’t you take your mother to get a photo id? How much do you really care about her vote???

By Tom

October 18, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

It amazes me that you think a man who has called for annihilation of a country, bombing of another country, says that a war his President declared a victory, the one he voted with, by his own words, over 90% of the time and more than most of his fellow republicans, would be a defeat if we let them have their own country back, and finally has tried to divide this country and destroy any progress of our nation being one, would make the best choice for the oval office. Your tunnel vision of the world and the America around all of us, is truly a pathetic example of what shape we are still in as a nation and a people. We have a chance to once again move forward from our stagnant ways, and don’t worry the greed and corruption even more emphasized in the past 8 to 10 years will still survive, but perhaps we can stop some of it by striving for the values this country was founded upon. Hopefully you, and some of your name calling followers, will actually read and remember just some of those principles, and join us in building the future for America and the world.

By Dusty

October 18, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Wooo… liberals on the loose today…let’s see….

A.J. Calhoun @1:03

Nobody should waste time reading your junk riddled rote with such “items” as these:

Republinazi

our government practicing torture

spied on by our own government

bring George W. Hitler to justice for his many crimes against humanity…

Try paper dolls for entertainment, A.J. That’s more on your level.

By Dusty

October 18, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Dear GGG @2:05

Strange…you sound just like your other ID aka Tom (2:19), who thinks this country is a quagmire SO vote for the man you think is totally unsuited to be President of the USA.

Also, GGG/Tom says we have neither continued USA freedom or helped two other countries to have a chance at freedom.

JUST VOTE FOR OBAMA AND SAVE THE WORLD AND GET FREE HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION AND MORTGAGES AND FOOD AND WHITE FLAGS AND…..HIGHER TAXES.

Good work for you libs, GGG aka TOM. You are the best lil socialist around!!

By @@

October 18, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

GayGrayGeek:

Gee, when you’re posting using your DustBuster handle, you sure do SEEM to have a big ol’ Man-Crush on Shrub…

Not Dusty, only @@.

Not Bush……Cheney.

It’s lust, not love. Brilliant mind —the strong silent type.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 18, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

By Dusty October 18, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this Wooo… liberals on the loose today…let’s see….

A.J. Calhoun @1:03

Nobody should waste time reading your junk riddled rote with such “items” as these:

Republinazi

our government practicing torture

spied on by our own government

bring George W. Hitler to justice for his many crimes against humanity…

Try paper dolls for entertainment, A.J. That’s more on your level.

So, why did you read it Musty? You, and those of your idelogical ilk, are going to be sad, mad and out of luck real soon. Obama is going to win and he’s even going to win here in Georgia. Can’t stand it? Too bad! Your fascist Republinazi Party is on its way out! Bye Musty.

By Amelia

October 18, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Confident Humanist, I find it difficult to believe your mother has lived 88 years in this country and has no picture ID. Am I to believe she has no bank account, no social security card? How does she manage to survive in this day and time without a picture ID?

By JW

October 18, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Finally;

Jim you have cut to the chase on this election. The GOP does not deserve to win. The best case for electing McCain to keep the democrats in line. If only John had run a campaign instead of selling his soul. BTW, the Palin selection falls under that too.

Unfortunately, it may be too late. The GOP may need to hit rock bottom before it reinvents itself or at least reacquaints itself with the principles on which it was started.

By getalife

October 18, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri

Wow.

By getalife

October 18, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Jim’s party is ripping each other to pieces

Too funny.

By TB

October 18, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

I prefer McCain’s beliefs and politics but find that he is anything but steady. He is impulsive and chaotic, and a “maverick” in every bad sense of the word. He reaches across the aisle as it suits his whim, and has a well documented temper.

I’d rather have an Obama that will be held in check by a Republican backlash than a McCain causing absolute chaos in Washington and abroad.

How can you say McCain is a “steady hand” when he keeps throwing out big ideas to correct the economy out of left field?

McCain contradicts himself often. You can’t have that in the Presidency.

By Tom

October 18, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Just a note to Dusty: There are more people named Tom than Dusty. Most of my friends thought of me as a moderate conservative until the Cheney years, then I guess I became a Liberal, based on the “values” professed by Cheney and his spokes person. I admire all points of view when they are based on comprehensive introspection and not just what the AJC and Fox pundits have to say.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 18, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Dusty, I know you are wrong about Obama, but a part of me hopes you are right…then people like me would be given license to hunt down and destroy people like you and yours…

By Peter

October 18, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Poor Jim ……

Miss-States a point………….funny statement !

“There is no question that the nation and families would be more secure with John McCain in the White House.”

Pure Baloney…. OPINION…. Period…… !!!!!!

That is the nicest way to say he is full of crap !

McCain dies…. we have Sarah Palin…… That is a Nightmare at best ! First Most IMPORTANT Decision McCain had to make……. Poor Choice, bad for America !

McCain would be the oldest President going into OFFICE EVER !

I doubt that will happen ! Heck Regan was already with Alzheimer’s Disease before he left office !

America won’t have it JIM !

McCain can’t tell us anything about his policy’s……but he does say a few things that make you wonder……..

He won’t tell you where Bin Laden is…………………but “He knows how to get him “

He won’t tell you his economic plan………………… but “He knows how to fix it “.

He won’t tell you how he expects to change Washington and all the “PORK”…………………………but “he knows how to fix it”…….

YET……….. his running mate is the biggest PORK hound of them all !

Sounds like a bunch of crap Jim……

Now talk about Policy Jim, and maybe you won’t just be spouting Typical REPUBLICAN OPINION !

NOW WHAT Jim is REALLY SCARED of is……..

Who the New Supreme Court Justices are going to BE …. as the Republican’s Won’t be picking them !

That is what is “REALLY SCARING” Poor JIM !

By Peter

October 18, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Here is why Jim’s newspaper doesn’t buy his ideas………

However, in his current role as Republican nominee, McCain has yet to explain how most of his proposed policies and approaches differ from those of the current president. From deregulation of Wall Street and tax cuts that favor the richest 5 percent of Americans to a more aggressive foreign policy, McCain’s approach now reflects the same Republican orthodoxy that has governed this country since 2000. Time and again, he has been offered chances to explain how his philosophy differs from that of the current president, and he has not been able to do so.

And it’s not just a matter of policies. A third term under another Republican president would inevitably be populated by much the same cast of GOP staffers, executives and bureaucrats that has run Washington for so long and with such disastrous results. McCain’s campaign staff illustrates that problem perfectly because it is populated by many of the same people who ran previous Bush campaigns. They are also still trying to run the same basic Republican playbook that the party has used since 1980.

In fact, the competence of McCain’s campaign staff is itself cause to question the candidate’s executive abilities. To some degree, the rigors of creating and running a campaign organization can be a test of the skills needed to create and run an administration. And even many Republicans acknowledge that the McCain campaign has been poorly organized and erratic, lurching from one crisis to another without the sense of a strong hand at the tiller.

Columnist William Kristol, a longtime McCain backer, calls the McCain campaign “close to being out–and–out dysfunctional,” concluding that “its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic.”

And of course, the most unfortunate evidence of that “strategic incoherence and operational incompetence” was McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a person utterly unprepared for the high post in question.

Well Jim, at least you will still have a job on November 5th !

By getalife

October 18, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

How in the world could John run this country when his campaign is so horrible?

Obama ran a good campaign and deserves to win.

By whodunnit

October 18, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

Here is why Jim’s newspaper doesn’t buy his ideas………

Hey Pete boy, since when was the AJC ever a Conservative rag? Enlighten us please.

By Tailgater

October 18, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

TB, the lib moby says McCain contradicts himself often. You can’t have that in the Presidency.

Oh puhleeeeeze!

Last I checked Obama’s contradictions were up to 155. Not sure if that includes his contradictory statements about NOT being affiliated with ACORN. Plenty of those out there.

Sheesh!

By Craig

October 18, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

Obama was shielded from the media and had a teleprompter. Tough questions like why nearly half of the taxpayers in that 95% diatribe he regurgitates don’t pay income taxes at all??? HA! The real Obama showed up in the first 30 minutes of the last debate. *”Uh…mmmm…errrr…uhhh.” The Joke is on America.

By Peter

October 18, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Hey ……. By whodunnit ..

I actually think my take on the Supreme Court Justices coming in is your scary Nightmare !

Republican’s won’t be choosing the next group……..

Guys like Bush won’t be appointed President any longer !

By Chad Harris

October 18, 2008 7:42 PM | Link to this

McCain is Quintissential Instability and Palin’s Unqualified to Work in Fast Food Restuarant: They are Beyond CPR and Will Only See the White House as Visitors*

Mommy Moron is on set at *SNL only because she can read from a script written for her.*

Those who can’t answer questions make sure they never take any—that’d be McPalin and Moroncuda.

1) The world is perilous because so many Americans are at the Wooten educational level and read as little as Jim Wooten.

2) Voters have already decided Obama makes them feel more secure, and that eratic lying McCain will be off the TV 3 days after Nov. 5. There are 400,000 new voters in Georgia registered as of 10/1/08 and they ain’t votin’ McPalin or Saxbush.

Voter Supression 2008 is DOA

3) The Wooten homeboys and homegirls who congretate at the Buckhead Club are engaged in a futile voter supression campaign led by Karen Handel per emails from White House Couselor Ed Gilles;pie. The MO is to hijack Bush DOJ once again just as it was hijacked in the US Attorney firing/scandals and to use FBI puppet Bob Mueller and DOJ puppet Mike Mukasey to attempt to destroy the Democratic voter turnout. It’s DOA.

4) To insure that a constructive agenda succeeds in Congress, the Dems are defeating the formerly entrenched Republican House and Senate members in droves in November. The defeats can be documented at www.fivethirtyeight.com

5) One has to wonder what in the hell about Moron Palin could enamour Wooten. Or ask yourself this question: Would Wooten marry a woman as clueless as Palin? Would Bush shills Dick Williams and Phil Kent marry women as clueless as Palin? Don’t think so. Palin isn’t qualified to empty trash at any office in Atlanta and is considerably less educated than the average 15 year old working after school at Chick Fil-A. She’s dumb enough to force her daughter to marry a kid who is as ready for fatherhood and marriage as Palin is ready to perform neurosurgery.

6) Why is it that butressing sweeping generalizations with specific facts is always taught as an essential writing skill, yet Wooten is paid by Cox to be a purported associate editorial page editor and not one paragrah he writes is butressed by a single fact?

There has been a huge question as to whether McPalin has the insight, judgement, and temperament to be in the Senate or the White House and that’s why he’s losing by double digits in so many states and is over 110 electoral votes behind at this moment.

7) Mr. Wooten needs to get hold of a definition of disingenuous. Purporting to run an ethical campaign and making robo calls (because they are cheap—7 grand in most congressional districts) trying to smear Obama as a terrorist collaborator? Is Wooten prepared to put his arguments that Obama is less patriotic than Wooten in print? Why is it that Wooten and his homies continues to believe that as in 2000 and 2004 if you tell the lie enough times morons will believe it. It’s not happening this time.

8) Obama did not hold a fund raiser in Bill Ayres’ home. Not that it matters on Nov. 4, but Ayres denounced 911 in his book. And Ayres and Acorn both begin with “a” and they are dead end issues. What Wooten needs to spend his time doing is to start composing McPalin’s concession speech and quit waisting his time promoting voter supression or deluding himeself believing that Obama supporters are fans of the Springer show. There are thousands of Obama supporters who have libraries exponentially better the ones in Wooten’s home or office, read scores more papers than Wooten (real newspapers where Wooten wouldn’t be hired), and find Wooten’s attempts to comment on anything judicial ludicrous and sorely lacking as to facts, law, and case law cited as authority.

9) Bernie Marcus has been a knee jerk Republican all his life. While donating to many worthwhile causes, Bernie runs an acquarium that is killing whale sharks because of stupid medical policies there.

10) The big 3 auto industries in Detroit will soon cease to exist. Both Dems (say Carl Levin and John Dingel) and Republicans in Congress have done all they can to promote the predominant vehicle on the streets of Atlanta today—the gas guzzling SUV—also the favorite vehicle of US agencies. There are a couple hundred parked in the Russell Building garage at this moment owned by DOJ. There are a couple hundred more owned by other agencies. There are several hundred more driven by employees. That is the reason why the US Auto industries are in crisis. Electric cars should have been the predominant vehicle on streets more than ten years ago. “Drill Baby Drill” is the most moronic slogan and bumper sticker to be deployed in this century. It contributes nothing to breaking the oil addiction and oil dependence of Atlantans and Americans.

11) Moron Palin was on the stump yesterday asserting that the “real Americans” are in small cities. Moroncuda will soon learn that those fake Americans in large cities are going to use millions of votes to send her packing back to Snowville.

12) Mr. Wooten advances the thesis that all has been well in the conduct of Wall Street hedge funds, Lehman, AIG, Citi, the many non-deposit banks, and the merry land of credit-default swaps. He is deluded. Mr. Wooten is blissfully unwaware that While Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group were in supposedly secret talks to acquire Harrah’s Entertainment for $15.1 billion, the takeover was already a done deal in the market for credit-default swaps. Wooten thinks its way cool that seemingly omniscient derivatives traders also determined that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital, Merrill Lynch and Thomas Frist would buy HCA in the weeks before the $33 billion buyout of the hospital operator was announced. And they did the same thing two weeks before Anadarko Petroleumagreed to buy Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources for $21 billion.

Those type trades, and not Barack Obama’s economic policies are major components of the current financial crisis, as well as the obviously fraudulent loan policies of banks and mortgage brokers throughout Atlanta and this nation.

The response of Congress to the current finaincial prelude to another great depression has been irresponsibly incompetent and not one specific word from Wooten. Why is that?

Bush, Paulson, and Bernanke have been pathetic and Republicans Alan Greenspan and House Banking Chairman Phil Graham were major players in setting up the current financial cluster**.

13) Mr. Wooten does not want to touch the fact that McCain and Moron Palin’s speech writer Rick Davis was taking 15 grand from Fannie and Freddie through August 30. He is characteristically silent on this fact. Davis was performing no specific work for these organizations yet he took the money as a bribe because of his proximity to McPalin.

15) It’s hilarious to see Wooten kvetching about unchecked power since the reason this country is in the toilet and has a 3 trillion dollar hemorrhage in Iraq and growing is because this current adminnistration has been the personification of unchecked power. What Wooten is worried about is unchecked power that aren’t his boys and girls.

The difference is in the Obama administration power is not going to be unchecked. No more signing statements. No more ignoring congress. No more ignoring subpoenas as Rove, Miers, and Bolten are currently doing.

16) We have heard a ton of promises before. The vast majority of them have been from Republican Presidents since Ike, and in Georgia from a majority of Republican Congressmen and Senators. And they have put this country in the crapper.

McCain’s record is repleat with voting for the failed Bush policies 95% of the time over eight years, and for 26 years have been the failed policies of Republican adminsitrations. It is anything but “replete with examples of joining Democrats” and note that a Wooten trademark is to state McPalin’s record is replete with joining Dems but not to name one single example because he simply can’t

Potential adversaries recognize McCain as twitchy, unstable, posessing no coherent foreign policy, and they hate his guts. They will not work with him, and his Bush continuation policies would continue to place this country at great risk.

We still are not inspecting/s-raying/MRIing more than 5.8% of the cargo on domestic passenter planes that get permission to taxi in the US.

We have poured billions into Pakistan and the Taliban have never been more dominant or more capable in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Governments in both places are as unstable as Bush and McCain and as dishonest as Cheney.

What has confounded most Americans is that McCain has put a board certified bimbette/bimbo who is dumb as a rock a heart beat away from the office where a man with recurrent metastatic melanoma will fail to gain.

While Sugarmommy $200 million heiress Cindy dumped her 2007 tax returns late last night on purpose to escape media scrutiny, McCain has refused to make meaningful medical information available and will not. There are scores of articles in the medical literature by Board Certified dermatologists underscoring this fact.

We are not having it Wooten. It’s over. The sooner you metabolize this the better. You and your homies cannot supress our vote. We are way too bright.

By misterearl

October 19, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

No Country For Old Men

With the impending challenges, McCain would be exhausted in three weeks, leaving the SNL star, sarah palin to make the critical decisions with a third grade understanding of the world.

Is tha REALLY what this country needs?

George

You want to talk values?

Do The Math

One House

One Car

One Wife

Obama08

Sickofbeingrobbed - the Klan rally starts at 7PM tonight. Hoods optional.

By Joe the Thumber

October 19, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

McCain has showered Joe the Plumber with affection, and tells a wrenching story about how Joe was only 8 years old when White House Plumbers were used to stop leaks of classified information during the Nixon administration.

McCain’s first few “presidential decisions” reveal how his administration will be. Choosing Palin, knee-jerk firing SEC chairman over AIG, and hacking Obama’s change mantra.

McCain is a reactionary gambler willing to stake everything on long shot, ill conceived actions. The country is still divided 50/50. However one would think that the demographic 180 turning our minorities into the majority would eventually show up at the polls.

African Americans will vote in historic numbers. I expect many incidences of improper treatment.

Hispanic Americans will also pile on the Obama vote.

If McCain can get all the plumbers, the coppers, and the seals, though, he should win.

By misterearl

October 19, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

The McCain message of anger is divisive and filled with hateful rhetoric and based on one thing - and ONE thing only - winning the elction.

There is no coherant message other than Obama is evil. Nothing else resonates.

Obama calmly and with diplomacy lays out a vision to unify the country, discarding differences and bias. That unity threatens skinheads, Klansmen and separatist conservatives alike.

Did you see how both men ragared each other?

McCain was overtly resentful as those who are threatened by the mere thought of change… or heaven forbid - an Black man with superior intelligence.

Obama was calm and precise.

Which future do you choose?

By misterearl

October 19, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

telma hopkins, I salute you

This Bud’s For You

Read it and weep for your tortured and ignorant soul

Major U.S. newspapers endorse Obama

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has attracted the support of more than three times as many newspapers as his Republican opponent John McCain.

Obama picked up the backing of several major dailies, including the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, WHICH HAS NEVER endorsed a Democratic nominee for president.

In endorsing the senator from Illinois, his home-town newspaper wrote that it has observed his political rise from the front lines and can vouch for his ability.

The Detroit Free Press said At a time when America clearly needs some changes, Democrat Barack Obama is not only proposing better ones but is also better suited to the job of getting them done.

The Washington Post emphatically endorsed him as “the right man for a perilous moment.”

The Los Angeles Times said Obama “represents the nation as it is, and as it aspires to be.”

No Country For Old Men

By ron

October 19, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Today will mark the 3379th Sunday I’ve missed church.Give or take a couple.

I hear rumors that Obama is looking at Kerry for Secretary of State.”Can I get a hunting license he yuh”?, is the last thing I can remember hearing him say.Listeners of Howie Carr will know what I’m talking about.

I haven’t read whether Powell imploded yet or not.That will leave Condoleeza as the only known holdout.She’ll have a stealth vote though,I’m sure.Powell is looking for a job.

In most of Europe one needs a passport to purchase a cell phone.A trend to be soon heading this way.

I think McCain and Palin are looking for t.v. careers.I understand Palin was on SNL.Stupid move.McCain took Letterman’s ratings above Leno’s.I read about this garbage,I don’t watch it.

Redneck——Keep an eye on the missus.Don’t let her go below 315.Ask her if she wants to go on a bike ride with me next year in San Francisco.All expenses paid.No laundry bill.Dusty turned me down.

By misterearl

October 19, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

By Telma Hopkins

If the Klan had truly taken care of business last century, we would not be having to read the racist, uneducated ramblings of simpletons like misterearl

Dear telma hopkins

Just a little something to enjoy your leftover Krispy Kreme donuts, stale coffee and cigarettes by

One final love note (maybe) from one educated(cough) person to another

(Please Read It Slowly so it can sink in)

Obama Shatters Fundraising Record

By Matthew Mosk Washington Post

Sen. Barack Obama shattered, by a country mile, the record for dollars raised in a single month, pulling in $150 million in September, according to an e-mail the campaign sent out this morning.

“In the month of September, we raised over $150 million and added 632,000 new donors for a total 3.1 million donors to date,” the campaign announced.

“The average donation for the month was less than $100.”

The previous record, also set by Obama, was $67 million.

Apparently, I am not alone

Have a nice day

By misterearl

October 19, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Klan Man - thank you for the invitation to your family barbecue

Hey, did’ya see how many people turned out at The gateway Arch In St Louis?

Crazy stuff huh?

Klan Man - Unfortunately I will be working on a phone bank with 300 of my well-informed Bethesda, Maryland neighbors (who represent the majority of Americans) for the Obama campaign and will not be able to attend.

It is people like you who provide the inspiration to work that much harder.

Please remember to drink and drive.

By Jim Wooten

October 19, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

To the person posting as Laquisha, Klan-man, Telma Hopkins and Vick-Supporter: Quit. Take the racist stuff elsewhere.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

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

Vickjockmuncher, you probably didn’t finish high school, are now a trash collector and you’re far from intellectual. I believe you meant ineffectual. also, you need to make a lot more than seventy thousand dollars to be wealthy in today’s world. Crisco, isn’t that the lard company? Do you analyze pig fat? Analyze this middle finger I’m holding up for you b***!

By misterearl

October 19, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

vicksupporter - don’t sweat the ignorance. Join the campaign, meet some incredible people and do some needed groundwork.

VOTE.

The two best words Colin Powell just used to describe Obama

“Intellectual Dignity”

Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for President

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER The Associated Press Sunday, October 19, 2008; 9:31 AM

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president, describing the Illinois senator as a “transformational figure.”

Powell says both Obama and Republican John McCain are qualified to be commander in chief. But, in an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said Obama is better suited to handle the nation’s economic problems as well as help improve it’s standing in the world.

Powell expressed disappointment in the negative tone of McCain’s campaign, as well as in his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Powell says he does not believe Palin is ready to take over as president, if necessary.”

telma hopkins are you paying attention?

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

If Dusty’s fears are correct, which they are not, then I want to be a NKVD or Gestopo type policeman….

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Yeah, Laquisha, Klan-man, Telma Hopkins and Vick-Supporter: Save the racism for the regularly scheduled Klan meeting in Jim’s basement, this coming Wednesday, and every Wednesday thereafter….

By zeke

October 19, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Very true! Obama is a socialist, even a marxist that will enable the policies of extreme leftist to forever burden us and our country with their socialist agenda! Colin Powell just lost all the respect I had for him by endorsing Obama as the most capable to lead our country, while at the same time saying Sarah Palin was not qualified to take on the job as President if circumstance dictated! She is more qualified than Obama to run for the office, and, he is the one running for President!

By Redneck Convert

October 19, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m downright ashamed of this ron for not going to church on Sunday. I might of knowed he was a heathen. And now he wants to take the missus on a long bike ride—buck nekkid! Well, there ain’t a bike tire made that will stand up to the missus weight. I’m going down to the Church of Holiness and put in for a special prayer from the Rev. Postlewaite for ron’s soul.

Anyhow, I might of knowed this Colin Powell was a Trader. That’s what happens when you take one of Those People and put him in charge of the whole Army! People like him are alright as dishwashers and potato peelers and stuff like that, but they will turn on you in a second if you put them in charge of anything. I don’t know how anybody could take this low-life Obama over a Patriot like old man McCain.

Anyways, I’ll come back to this blog today after Sister Dusty and Raghead Dumbkoff return from church. They go there to hear sermons on how we will always have the poor with us and there ain’t nothing we should do about it. It makes them feel all godly about arguing to get rid of guvmint programs to help poor people.

Have a good day everybody.

By liberal no life AJC blog hack

October 19, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Pat Buchanan tells it like it is about the fascist dictatorship we are about to embark on — and Dems said Bush and neocons were dictators. HAH! I’d recommend everyone catching the air show in Marietta today. Why hasn’t Obama or Biden mentioned much about our military anyway? Things that make you go..hmmmmmmm.

As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make?

This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history. Consider.*

As of today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, anticipates gains of 15-30 seats. Sen. Harry Reid, whose partisanship grates even on many in his own party, may see his caucus expand to a filibuster-proof majority where he can ignore Republican dissent.

Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of the Senate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president’s mansion is headed Joe Biden, third-most liberal as ranked by the National Journal, ahead of No. 4, Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders. What will this mean to America? An administration that is either at war with its base or at war with the nation.

Even better, maybe this nation just needs to sink to the depths of socialist economic liberal hell before it wakes up and shifts back to center right. Any college student studying Economics 201 knows that raising taxes in an already strained economy is not the thing to do. Besides, since most Democrats are lawyers, since when did getting a law degree make one an expert on the economy and business functions? We’ll start learning that next year, and it is going to be painful. Plan accordingly. I am.

By Peter

October 19, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Golly Jim………

I guess I had read Colin Powell’s Mind yesterday………

As I mentioned YESTERDAY………. It was all about the next choices of Supreme Court Justices………

Colin thinks so as well……….

Powell said the election of Obama would “electrify the world.”

“I think he is a transformational figure,” Powell said. “He is a new generation coming … onto the world stage and on the American stage. And for that reason, I’ll be voting for Senator Barack Obama.”

As a key reason, Powell said: “I would have difficult with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration.”

Well a Great Republican, just made the RIGHT DECISION……..

Yes his decision was………

” Not Wrong. Not Left. Right. Common sense conservativism”……..

Yes Jim……………..Colin made the Correct decision for AMERICA !

You can make the CORRECT decision like other Intelligent Republican’s JIM………..Just Vote OBAMA !

Powell said that he is “troubled” by the direction of the Republican Party, and said he began to doubt Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) when he chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

“Not just small towns have values,” he said, responding to one of Palin’s signature lines.

“She’s a very distinguished woman, and she’s to be admired,” he said. “But at the same, now that we have had a chance to watch her for some seven weeks, I don’t believe she’s ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president. And so that raised some question in my mind as to the judgment that Senator McCain made.”

Yes Poor Judgment on McCain’s part JIM………. Sarah Palin….is Not close to be ready to Be A……. VP or a President !

Vote Conservative…..Vote for AMERICA……..

Vote Obama !

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

99% of Barrak Obama’s money is raised from ordinary people making small donations over time….Unlike McCain who gets over 50% of his donations from Fat Cats giving the maximum. Now read this:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.

The campaign released the figure on Sunday, one day before it must file a detailed report of its monthly finances with the Federal Election Commission.

Obama’s money is fueling a vast campaign operation in an expanding field of competitive states. It also has underwritten a wave of both national and targeted video advertising unseen before in a presidential contest.

Campaign manager David Plouffe, in an e-mail to supporters Sunday morning, said the campaign had added 632,000 new donors in September, for a total of 3.1 million contributors to the campaign. He said the average donation was $86.

The Democratic National Committee, moments later, announced that it raised $49.9 million and had $27.5 million in the bank at the start of October. The party has been raising money through joint fundraising events with Obama and can use the money to assist his candidacy.

Obama’s numbers are possible because he opted out of the public financing system for the fall campaign. McCain, the Republican nominee, chose to participate in the system, which limits him to $84 million for the September-October stretch before the election.

Obama’s monthly figure pushed his total fundraising to $605 million. No presidential candidate has ever run such an expensive campaign. His campaign raised $65 million in August, his previous best.

“The overall numbers obviously are impressive,” Plouffe said in a campaign video. “But it’s what’s beneath the numbers in terms of average Americans who have had enough, who want a change and who are really fueling this campaign.”

Obama had initially promised to accept public financing if McCain did, but changed his mind after setting primary fundraising records. His extraordinary fundraising is bound to set a new standard in politics that could doom the taxpayer-paid system. Many Republicans have begun to second-guess McCain’s decision to participate in the program.

With his money, and a favorable political wind at his back, Obama has secured his foothold in states that have voted for Democratic presidential candidates in the past. But he has also been able to expand the contest to reliably Republican states, forcing McCain and the Republican Party to spend their money defensively.

Plouffe pointed out that the campaign is now spending resources in West Virginia. Obama running mate Joe Biden was scheduled to campaign in Charleston, W.Va., on Friday and the campaign has secured television advertising in the state for the next two weeks, according to ad data obtained by The Associated Press. Plouffe hinted at further expansion, noting that public opinion polls show the race tightening in Georgia and North Dakota.

As much as Obama raised, he needed a big fundraising month to justify his decision to bypass the public finance system. Financially, he has been competing not only against McCain, but against the GOP, which raised $66 million in September.

The combined Obama and DNC totals for September now give the Democrats a distinct financial advantage going into Election Day, just 16 days away.

By liberal no life AJC blog hack

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

99% of Barrak Obama’s money is raised from ordinary people making small donations over time

And a lot of Obama’s “small” contributions come from nations and people that we can’t trace the origins to, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT CROOKS.

The truth is out there:

The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign has identified a staggering $222.7 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less [note: more than half of the total]. Only $39.6 million of that amount comes from donors the Obama campaign has identified…

…The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom…

…[about $200,000 might be legit, but other foreign contributions] came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.

Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran…*

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 19, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Could not disappoint my leading fan, Obama Convert, so I’ll pop in. My older son sang the offeratory this morning, possess a magnificent voice, unlike his father. Watched a movie last night, about our future under the national socialists, “Amen.” Costa-Gavras. His oeuvre documents - he uses only historical stories - the effects of big government. “Z” highlighted a Greek military government, but one that sought to control society like American leftists. “The Confession” showed the Russian “justice” system running a show trial, much like the Bork confirmation hearings. “State of Siege” was the Brazilian junta’s treatment of dissidents, much like the postings of our leftists on this board. “Missing” took place in Chile, the disappearances of a large number of opponents in the early days of the Pinochet regime - perhaps this is the only story that does not (yet) apply to the promises of Obama supporters. And “Amen.” chronicled the silence of the church as the big government types performed their crimes under the aegis of “uniting society.”

Not that the new national socialists want to stifle dissent (“fairness doctrine”) nor incarcerate opponents (“war crimes” for deposing Saddam?) nor “spread the wealth” (i.e., take from those who earned it and give to those who don’t deserve it.)

By fredmars

October 19, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

So sorry Jimmie,

It’s long since time for the current Republican philosophy to be discarded - borrow-and-spend, outlaw disagreement with the majority, intrusion of government into the private lives and bedrooms of citizens, exclusion of all that is “other”.

One can only hope that from the ashes of the the crash-and-burn of Dubya’s failed presidency and McSame’s failed campaign that a new and respectable Republican Party will emerge. One that returns to the sensibilities of Eisenhower, Goldwater and, even, Reagan. I would welcome the return of a genuinely conservative movement to American politics instead of the hideous false “conservatism” that has so discredited the right since 1992.

Colin Powell and Buckley have already decried the failure of the modern Republican model - Hagel and Lugar are up next.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Dear Crooked and really Ugly liberal no life AJC blog hack: There are several million americans living overseas, who have every right to make campaign contributions. Amoung these millions are several hundred thousand military people, who are voting with their paychecks….

By Dee

October 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Next time AJC does layoffs, I suggest replacing Mr. Wooten’s column with whatever faxed talking points come in from the RNC.

A cost-cutting measure!

By Dusty

October 19, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Well, after a good sermon this morning, time to get back to the nitty gritty of political blogs.

Couldn’t help but notice that Ron is STILL looking for a chubby companion to ride in a San Fran Bike race. He mentioned that I had turned him down.

Who wants to be seen with a 400 lb rider who shows up on a bike with truck tires and a portable refrigerator??? Not me,not my lil’ ol willowly self. I’ll skip that invitation again, But Ron, roll on (with all your rolls)!!.

But back to serious stuff such as seriously ill Republicans R Crooks. Yesterday at 4:21 he posted to me by name and wrote that if Obama won “people like me would be given license to hunt down and destroy people like you and yours”. Today he wishes he were NKVD or a Gestapo agent. Hope this guy gets help soon.

Poor General Colin Powell. Had to turn on an old friend and most of his old buddies, the conservative “military”. And the excuses…”transformational” for instance.

Many Americans do not believe that socialism is the transformation wanted in the USA.

Ah well, there’s John Lewis and now Colin Powell. I am afraid it does not reflect well on either man.

By AmVet

October 19, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

One can only hope that from the ashes of the the crash-and-burn of Dubya’s failed presidency and McSame’s failed campaign that a new and respectable Republican Party will emerge.

fredmars, I have been saying this for years.

I have also contended that it is the Republican Party, not the Democrats, who offer the most hope for this nation.

There are a few tiny promising signs - Hagel’s voice for sanity and reason against Bush’s deceit-ridden, chosen, bungled and deadly occupation of Iraq, and even Sen. McCain is to me a man of honor, as he is at least sometimes willing to tell Rove/BushCo to go to h&ll. Unlike the rank and file lockstep GOP boot licker.

But the sad reality is that this hijacked and imploding once Grand Old Party has a bigger identity crisis than a suicidal teenager.

And even more sadly, they appear to be exceptionally slow learners. Watch how the intransigent neo-cons blame McCain’s loss (it it in fact happens) on not being conservative enough!!! The same problem they attribute to GWB’s stellar approval rating.

Wake up neoliths! Many of us have been speaking truth to power for years that these BIG government Reaganistas, Newt nuts and Bushco slimeballs are not conservative AT ALL.

I believe it is going to take at least another historic, humiliating loss or three, for them to finally give up this fake conservatism and become again a party of sanity, courage and integrity.

By Peter

October 19, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

Poor Dusty……….

Poor General Colin Powell. Had to turn on an old friend and most of his old buddies, the conservative “military”. And the excuses…”transformational” for instance.

Lemmings still want to JUMP !

By Realist

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

Everybody:

Remember one thing. Obama is one man. He is not God, the Antichrist, or the Second coming of Jesus. He can’t heal the sick, raise the dead, turn water into wine, or perform any other types of miracles. He can only do what the American people let him do, and we are the most fickle unfaithful people on the face of this planet. If in two years the economy is still in the tank or even worse than today, the Repubs will sweep all the Congressional elections like they did in 1994. If not, the Dems will retain control until things DO go bad again.

What blows my mind is that this Democratic controlled Congress, with a WORSE approval rating than our sorry, and yes I do mean sorry President, is going to actually GAIN seats in the election. They ought to ALL be thrown out on their sorry a*******es and replaced.

I have voted in every election since 1976. No doubt, this is the absolute WORST choice I have had to make in all that time.

Libs, don’t look for miracles. There won’t be any.

Conservs, don’t look for Armageddon. It ain’t gonna happen.

Just business as usual in DC.

By justwonderin

October 19, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

I for one need some more info on the future president Obama’s plan for slavery reparations. I mean using the figure from Ebony magazine of $2.5 trillion, if you split that among the black population of say 40 million that’s only $80,000 each. Can we have some more detail please? I mean how are we to split that up? Also, how are we to make sure that blacks don’t end up paying for their own reparations? That certainly would’nt be fair.

By Joe the Thumber

October 19, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

What kind of a debating point is it to point out that Obama isn’t God?

Will someone somewhere tell me at what point all logical premise required for an argument on this blog was lost?

Was it when the rightist turned this into a myspace chatroom? And Wooten, you’ll never rid this blog of trolls like the racist clown you addressed above. They are like metastasized cancers: they use the internet to travel to different websights and wreak havoc. Now I know they’re clowns and you know they’re clowns, but Bookman doesn’t get it. He’s got the crazy notion you can coddle trolls.

Unbelievable. What a world.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Aw yes, the Stinking Repuke scum resort to their tried and true trick of SCARE TATICS. We have had eight long years of lying, thieving, cowardly neocons screaming the Arabs are Coming, the Muslims are Coming, the Iranians are Coming. Guess what? When such a warning would have been useful, prior to 9/11/01, the neocon scum were strangely silent.

By Realist

October 19, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Joe:

I know Obama is not God. But to hear the media and his disciple on these blogs, you would think he had supernatural powers. I have never seen a political candidate fawned over by the media and the “Hollywood elite” like he has been. The media “crowned” Obama President long before he won the nomination strictly because of his speaking ability.

As far as that “racist troll” you spoke of, I know many blacks that are as idiologically opposed to Obama as they would be to J.B. Stoner, but they are going to vote for him STRICTLY due to his color (see Clayton County).

Bottom line, I reiterate, no miracles, no Armageddon.

Just business as usual.

By Dusty

October 19, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Well. what many of you do not understand..I think MCCAIN WILL MAKE THE BEST PRESIDENT. I am not with an “old” crowd or following George W. Bush, although I think he has done some remarkable things. I am not voting Republican just to be Republican. I am not a member of some weird racial group. I am looking at the whole picture.

Judging on past experiences, military, political, and past action in overcoming difficulties, I will vote for John McCain.

Yes, Obama is attractive in many ways. He is intelligent, somewhat eloquent with youthful charisma. But his political experience is very short and insignificant. His past has more masquerades than a Halloween party. His allegiance to America has it’s weak spots. I cannot see him with any reliable ties to the military. There are too many missing parts to make a wholesome and able President.

Bidan is just an OK good ol’ boy who won’t amount to a row of pins in an Obama administration. He is a prop for political experience in which Obama will have no interest.

Palin, on the other hand, is an appealing breath of fresh air. She is smart and learns fast with a natural “bent” for politics. She has the charisma of Bill Clinton without the male malfeasance. She will be a youthful, feminine and thoughtful person and a useful backup to run this country. We NEED the strong and reliable team of McCain and Palin and I will vote for them.

By Chad Harris

October 19, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

For the first time in American history, the two very conservative and very Republican Chicago papers have endorsed Obama last week. When Stevenson from Illinois ran against Ike, they refused to do that.

The only people who mention Obama in the context of some kind of Messiah are the wingnuts. That’s because they are the party who facades religion and uses it as a commodity to try to sucker people that if Bozohead poses as more “Christy” than Moroncudahead, then you should vote for the good churchgoer. You don’t hear Democrats posturing about a Messiah or “Jesus” or any other religious concepts that have no place whatsoever in a political discussion or in the government of this country. It is the wingnuts who want to voucher in tax support of religious schools. Religion belongs in churchs and churchs whether the people are there for religiosity or so someone else sees them as good citizens for being there, or whatever reason, churchs need to keep their butts the hell out of politics.

I had send Sugarmomma McCain released her tax returns, but that was wrong. Examination of the two pages she “released” reveals the usual head fake that has become the trademark of the McPalins and the Wingnuts and the Wooten Buckhead Club set.

What the Wingnut party is now doing is clear. They know they are going to get their butts kicked as McIdiot and Moroncuda get sent packing. They know they are going to lose heavily in the Senate and the House. So they are positioning themselves and the message has gone out to the Handels, the Wootens, the Eric Johnsons, the Dick Williams’, and their ilk to begin saying the election isn’t legitimate. That’s the way they’ll collectively hi-five themselves in some kind of nutso self therapy, but it’s not going to matter. We have a few in our neighborhood that are ranting and raving about “dead people” and “prisoners voting” which has been the mantra since Eisenhower left.

When you try to explain to them that in fact, in several states now, prisoners can in fact vote, and in many others ex-prisoners can vote after completion of their sentences, they get flumoxed and scream. It never occurs to them that if they were that delusional, Dems could rant and rave in the streets about all the Republican dead people and Republican prisoners voting.

Not only are individual states completely confused about who can legally vote as to former or current inmates, but hilariously most of the state constitutions forbid people from voting until they have completed sentences for “crimes of moral turpitude.” Moral turpitude is a phrase I first encountered in my ninth grade Latin class reading the book that started “All Gaul is Divided into tres partes.

Moral turpitude is best understood by interviewing the big bus full of Republican Congresspeople and soon one of the nastiest Senators, Ted Stevens on their way to prison or from prison where many of them now reside. They are walking, living breathing examples of it. And though it will take years, the Texas 3rd Circuit (State 3rd Circuit) will finally unfreeze politically and Delay will end up holding his butt in a prison cell as well. Delay was named well, because his Texas conviction is being delayed so long it is setting a Ripley’s Believe it or Not record for a “Delayed” [politically] prosecution.

I haven’t seen a Wooten column praising Tom Delay in quite a while—surely one is due.

Now Gaul and it’s neighbors have 16 different economies using the Euro and the stupid policies of Phil Graham, Alan Greenspan, Hank Paulson’s former company, and currently Paulson, Bernanke, and the Republicans who have controlled Congress for years and some Democrats as well have caused those economies in Gaul and their neighboring countries and their trade partners across the pond including the US to be on the brink of a depression. According to Charles Blow’s chart yesterday, in the NYT the US has already thrown (away) about 16 trillion dollars trying to bail out the banks in various permutations and combinations.

Cindy McSugarmommy only released two pages of her taxes which were meaningless and she continues to hide the rest. When she loses in two weeks, no one will care.

Cindy is a metaphor for her “husband’s” lies. The marriage is a sham, like many Republican “marriages.” They haven’t lived together in fact in over 20 years. They don’t vacation together. Cindy “hooks up” with her boyfriends from her high rise condo in California, and McCain hooks up with his lobbyist girlfriends in DC and East Coast cities.

Cindy was rejected in Washington as a young bride after McPalin had an affair with her and his wife badly injured in a car accident was still popular in the Raegan administration. She was shunned in DC and hated it and quickly left. The only reason she wants to go back is to go back (in her own mind) in triumph to “show ‘em” who is now queen. She deludes herself that she is Princess Diana, copying many aspects of Diana’s dress and even Diana’s pet charity. Cindy set up another charity and promptly began stealing Schedule II narcotics in droves from the charity. Cindy began gobbling the drugs to escape her guilt in the Keating 5 + Sugarmommy McCain scandal.

Of course following the quintissential Republican pattern, McPalin was a hawk on the failed drug war, but his wife was not prosecuted. If you had been caught stealing Schedule IIs from your local pharmacy, your butt would be in the slam. And then you might be one of those Republican prisoners voting.

Cindy’s life has been a cascade of lies including her Hillary Clintonesque lie about going to Rwanda in war time. She didn’t go anywhere in Africa during any war, and she never visited Rwanda. She portrays herself as an only child but in fact has two siblings—Hensley’s other daughter who is campaigning for Obama. The New Yorker and The New York Times Newsweek and ABC, all repeatedly describe Sugarmommy as the only Hensley child but she isn’t.

Last month, Cindy lied on CNN calling herself an “only child” and CNN, the dumbest political team on the planet was too dishonest or stupid to call her on it.

Kathleen Anne Hensley was born to Jim and Mary Jeanne Hensley on Feb. 23, 1943. She’s Kathleen Hensley Portalski now but the McPalin’s continue to lie and claim she doesn’t exist.

Sugarmommy is not an only child, but she is the sole inheritor of Jim Hensley’s pushing $200 million estate. She claims she will be in the White House and become an international benefactoress. Since she will have a lot of time on her hands come November 5, she should make that promise good and divert the money from her many half million balance charge cards to some worthwhile charities that she does not steal drugs from for a change.

Cindy says she is her “husband’s best friend” and that’s a lie because they haven’t lived or vacationed together since the first couple year of their “marriage.” Parents at the McCain children’s schools say they have never met John. Cindy literally has never been in D.C. since the first few weeks of McCain’s time there while married to her, where John lives 5 days and sometimes 7 days per week.

Being completely away from the wife and kids until you run a national campaign is arich tradition for the McCain family started by the father and grandfather who were never around for John.

When Bridgette from Bangladesh was adopted, it was a fiat Cindy pulled off and never discussed beforehand with John boy.

Cindy faked a CVA or stroke in 2004 when she moved to California and although she claims to have lost speech and the ability to walk, she miraculously had “recoverd” that ability within 72 hours of moving to the California beach home. She was at a baseball game 4 days after suffering the purported stroke, and the McCain campaign declined to discuss any of the lies on Friday.

It is ironic that the robocall smears that McCain denounced when Bush deployed them against him in 2000 are now being run against Obama by the exact same companies that ran the smears against McCain for Carl Rove and Bush in 2000.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

If McCain wins Georgia, but not the national election, there is a strong chance almost all federal jobs will be pulled from the state of Georgia….Forever….

By Don

October 19, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

And the point of this article is????? Oh, let me give it a shot. Mr. Wooten is one of the Americans who have benefited socially, politically and economically from the status quo for centuries. Hence, the word ‘change’ sends shockwaves down their weathered spines because the Right wing prevails only in an environment of coporate welfare, ethnic rivalry homophobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance and American militarism. Right Wingers like Mr. Wooten conseal these real deviant character traits by using the vague ideology known as ‘Conservatism’. Thankfully, a few decades from today, America’s demographic make-up would undergo a dramatic revolution. During this revolution ‘Conservatism’ would be hung up at all major museums with the caption ‘Never Again’.

By Chad Harris

October 19, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

If you want a quick index to how absurdly futile the Wootinistas and the Republican cause is in this coming election, and want some grins, watch “Georgia Gang” and listen to the pathetic analysis and wishful thinking of Phil Kent, Dickie the Williams, and whacko talk show host Martha Zoeller who appears never to have read anything in her life.

A big shoutout to Moroncuda, who appeared on SNL swaying to the beat of a rap song deliniating how stupid she is.

And anyone who has ever encountered a moose live, knows that they simply stare at you. They don’t attack people. Besides being the best known bimbo in the world, Palin is a serial killer of animals who can’t defend themselves along the lines of Mike Vick.

By Jackie

October 19, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Regardless of whom is elected President, we still have a transition time from 11/04/2008 until 01/20/2009.

The next President will have to deal with Dubya’s decisions and his attempts to cover up his misdeeds.

It is a question if the transition period will be free of further injection of policies and practices that have wrought so much grief.

By Dusty

October 19, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Republicans R Crooks,2:37

So what if Obama wins the election? You have already said that gave you license to shoot everybody who did not vote for Obama. That will not leave many people alive in Georgia.

What else are you going to tell us that we will lose? And why does it matter?

We will all be supported by our socialistic government as run by the one presiding officer in the country BARACK OBAMA. There will be no VP or Cabinet.

Any other enlighenment you want to mention, Crook??

By getalife

October 19, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Karl Rove estimates that Obama has winning 313 electoral votes

They will call this one early.

Time for dusty to show some patriotism and blindly support Obama like she did with w.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 19, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Crusty, Obama is going to win right here in Georgia! You can count on it. He will be elected President, which is something George W. Hitler was not. so, put on your best mumu and kick up them swollen ankles and shake yo groove thang. Happy days are here again!

By Dusty

October 19, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

getalife 3:03

Right here, buddy, I nominate Obama as Community Organizer of the Year. He can have his old job back in East Chicago and help ACORN too. Yes, sir, I support that.

Got your flags ready to wave for McCain? White ones for Obama? YOU haven’t supported anyone in years? Why start now??

By Cecil Nix

October 19, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

This election cycle shows how far afield the Republican party has become from mainstream America. McCain’s failure to be true to his moderate roots will result in his loss of the election. His choice of Palin -which was a pander to the right will unravel. The party will either unite or divide into two seperate camps - right and middle of the road. There is a real possibility that the Republican party will cease to exist - it remains to be seen if the libertarian party will rise from those ashes.

By Dusty

October 19, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

A.J. Calgoon 3:37

Stash you swastikas, white flags, voter registration cards, ACORN hair bands, teleprompter stands and paid misfits….the election is COMING and you don’t need to sing the Halleluia chorus yet.

You may end up having to support yourself instead of Obama paying for you with our taxes. You may have to salute the flag!! Sing “God Bless America”!! Quit spitting on soldiers!! Give up meth.

It will be a nice change for you. I will enjoy every minute of it.

By Get Outside

October 19, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

It is a beautiful day out. I got some wood split, now it is time to go and clean the front gutter.

I just finished my Gatorade, so it is time to get back at it.

Don’t waste the sunshine.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Papers, Dusty, Papers…..ya better have yours in order…..Cause there is a new sheriff in town, and he don’t much like BIG MOUTHED TRAITOR COWARDS.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 19, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Just for the fun of it, I looked over comments on the blog the day after the 2006 elections. Our leftist friends forecast great progress since their party had reclaimed the Congress. My two comments that day forecast (1) that President Bush would be given free hand to win the war in Iraq, as the leftists lacked the courage to oppose him there, and (2) that passing the minimum wage would end the long period of job growth. My comments drew criticism from our leftist friends. As always, the conservatives called it correctly, and the leftists were wrong as usual.

By Devastator

October 19, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON – Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bush’s first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain’s campaign.

The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said either candidate, both of them senators, is qualified to be commander in chief. But he said Obama is better suited to handle the nation’s economic problems as well as help improve its standing in the world.

“It isn’t easy for me to disappoint Sen. McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret that,” Powell, interviewed on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said of his longtime friend, the Arizona senator.

But, he added: “I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change and that’s why I’m supporting Barack Obama, not out of any lack of respect or admiration for Sen. John McCain.”

Powell’s endorsement has been much anticipated because he is a Republican with impressive foreign policy credentials, a subject on which Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, is weak. Powell is a Republican centrist who is popular among moderate voters.

At the same time, Powell is a black man and Obama would be the nation’s first black president. Powell said he was cognizant of the racial aspect of his endorsement, but said that was not the dominant factor in his decision. If it was, he said, he would have made the endorsement months ago.

Powell expressed disappointment in the negative tone of McCain’s campaign, his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate and McCain’s and Palin’s decision to focus in the closing weeks of the contest on Obama’s ties to 1960s-era radical William Ayers. A co-founder of the Weather Underground, which claimed responsibility for nonfatal bombings during the Vietnam War-era, Ayers is now a college professor who lives in Obama’s Chicago neighborhood. He and Obama also served together on civic boards in Chicago.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

The local board idiot, Ragnar Danneskjöld the Wanna Be Viking, says passing the minimum wage led directly to the current financial meltdown….Is there any LIE the stinking Repukes will not tell to cover their thieving tracks?

By Joe the Thumber

October 19, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

I guess he told me.

Jbmlaw: that was a fine bit o’predictin’

You still cant explain the bailout’s causes nor it’s effects. There was someone on the old KO message board at Yahoo who was recommending that people start hoarding gold, (2004) and he predicted gold’s rise from 300 to 900. He also lectured on “fiat” money, and how a “new paradigm” would emerge from an inevitable collapse of the global economy. He claimed that our money’s intrinsic value was arbitrary and unmeasurable.

Now THAT’s predictin’

But of course, I am the most accurate predictin’-er of all. After the 2000 crash of the stock market I suggested we would be at war within year. I had a dream of being on a plane flying low between many tall skyscrapers and I’d awaken in a sweat about it totally filled with fear. I had that dream two or three time in the months leading up to 911. When I realized what the passengers saw going into the towers I knew I had channelled into something unworldly. That’s why I cant think about the planes into the towers. I get too angry. I suddenly want war too. Kill any arab with even invented connections 2 al queda.

and that’s not right. I’m ashamed of those emotions. But guess what. Conservatism dashed itself on a rock over those emotions.

At least liberal ol’ me has control.

A good political movement knows it’s limitations.

Right? But you deserve credit for your prediction. Even if I kept sayin’ “we aint nevah gonna git outta iraq”.

minimum wage? if this collapse is minimum wage’s fault, then you deserve the pulitzer prize for being the only person in the world to figure that out. In fact, you should teach classes, or be fed chairman or something.

By yankee

October 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

The minimum wage? That comment has got to win some kind of award.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 19, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Right yankee, I suggest Republican Big Lie of the Year Award….I have a size 13 right boot with which to make the award…

By Jackie

October 19, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

News reports indicates the Iraqi parliament is not going to approve the deal to maintain US troops on Iraqi soil until 2010.

Do we have the manpower and financial wherewithal to impose our will upon a sovereign government again?

By the rapture

October 19, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

*By Republicans R Crooks *

Papers, Dusty, Papers…..ya better have yours in order…..Cause there is a new sheriff in town, and he don’t much like BIG MOUTHED TRAITOR COWARDS.

Crooked R liberal crock couldn’t be more right. Nazis did the same thing to dissent about 70 years ago.

By kevin

October 19, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

Today Colin Powell endorsed Senator Obama. I am not surprised since Mr. Obama is the first serious mixed race candidate to have a chance at winning the White House so from a heart persepective I can understand Mr. Powells’ choice.

However, I would have thought Mr. Powell could have framed his endorsement in these terms. I can’t imagine that a General Powell would have even considered putting an officer that is two years out from graduating West Point in charge of a battalion no matter how gifted the indivdual was. But this is what Mr. Powell is advocating in supporting Mr. Obama.

As far as Mr.Powell’s crticism of Mr. McCain’s reference to Mr. Obama as a socialist, I would greatly appreciate brighter minds than mine opining as to why Mr. Obama should not be termed a socialist. I thought that a socialist does not believe that wealth should be concentrated among a few but by means of state intervention should be spread equally. Since Mr. Obama wants to spread wealth around to be fair, why should he not be described as a socialsit?

If Mr. Obama is concerned about helping the middle class, what not cut actual, not future, federal spending as he indicated in the last debate when he indicated he would go line by line through the federal budget and rebate these savings to those making a gross income under $95,000 a year rather than providing an additional tax burden to those who already provide a disproportionate share of total taxes?

By the rapture

October 19, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

Another voice of reason, Daily News’ Michael Goodwin:

U.S. is desperately in need of a President but I don’t see any

Sen Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain at Wednesday night’s final presidential debate. Near the end of the presidential debate Wednesday, I had a fantasy of bursting into the hall, rushing on stage and shouting, “Is there a President in the house?” What stopped me was fear that the answer would be no. I’m not sure if John McCain and Barack Obama are getting smaller, or if it’s just that America’s problems suddenly are getting so much larger. Either way, the final debate left me with the chilling feeling that neither man is yet up to the job they are so desperately seeking.

I don’t see what all the fuss is about. We need America to shift left..FAR left. Yep, we do.

It will be okay. The fascism of a supermajority of liberal democraps will be just the beginning.

Patience.

Patience…

By Joe the Thumber

October 19, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

The ideological base of conservatism jumped the shark when Falwell said Tinky Winky was gay. I didn’t know Tinky Winky could even BE gay. Does Tinky Winky have a Pinkie? It was easy to joke about. But Falwell was serious. So was W when he let God talk him into Iraq. God Guns and Gays could get anyone elected, and stupify a dissappointingly simple citizenry.

Today, there are only vestiges of the mercenary lunatic fringe of conservatism which tithed to their own 401K plans. Lady Liberty cant even pay for a taxi ride home, unless it’s the cash cab, of course.

How could liberalism jump the shark? Which puppet would they have to accuse of debauchery?

I dont know. That one is way over my head.

By the rapture

October 19, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

The local board idiot, Ragnar Danneskjöld the Wanna Be Viking, says passing the minimum wage led directly to the current financial meltdown….Is there any LIE the stinking Repukes will not tell to cover their thieving tracks?

Hey liberal demonrat blog scum, what part of SUBPRIME in the phrase “subprime mortgage” do you not understand, you worthless neomarxist pile of left wing fecal matter?

By the rapture

October 19, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

NBC Universal is prepping another round of major cuts, slashing spending by $500 million next year.

Good. Get rid of the partisan media hacks that helped elect Democrats to congress in 2006, including all 10% that supported them then and only continue to support them now according to the latest polls.

By GayGrayGeek

October 19, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Jim, after all of your columns, one after the other after the other, expressing your Republican’t Fear that one of Those People might be YOUR President, why the mock surprise and casting faux opprobrium at racists posting openly on your blog?

You’re shocked, shocked to find that racism is going on in here?

By Craig

October 19, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

Jim, after all of your columns, one after the other after the other, expressing your Republican’t Fear that one of Those People might be YOUR President,

Hey Greek, idiotic libs like you who run on emotions may not remember this, but in 1991, post Gulf War I, Powell had a HUGE white CONSERVATIVE supporter base. In fact, said people were hoping he’d run for president. Remember that, race baiting cretin liberals?

But go ahead you little mindless liberal snakes, don’t let FACTS and HISTORY get in the way of a good bed wetting liberal rant.

By Jackie

October 19, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

Those that believe Sen. Obama and the policies that he supports are socialist should try to understand the literal meaning of the word.

Sen. Obama has never espoused taking from the rich to give to the poor; he as advocated making the “tax system” fair to all.

To give an example to those that seem to have difficulty with this concept when they say that those American citizens that do not pay as much tax as others, why don’t we institute a proportional “use system.”

For each one that pays 10% of their income in taxes, that individual would only be allowed to used those services at the same percentage for which their taxes reflect.

Since 95% of Americans pay far less tax than the top 5%, stop using the roads, water, sewer, television, electricity, police, fire, military, etc., at a greater proportion than your taxable percentage.

Problem Solved!!!!

By Craig

October 19, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

I surmise the most humorous thing about the mindless liberal Obamanation lovers is that a lot of us out there really do not depend on the government for assistance. I mean, to be realistic, almost half of Barack’s 95% he says he won’t raise taxes on do not even pay income taxes to begin with. For those remaining, you can bet many folks will be doing their homework on where to keep what is LEFT of their money the hell out of the neo-communist modern liberal Democrat hands.

By Craig

October 19, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

Sen. Obama has never espoused taking from the rich to give to the poor; he as advocated making the “tax system” fair to all. To give an example to those that seem to have difficulty with this concept when they say that those American citizens that do not pay as much tax as others, why don’t we institute a proportional “use system.”— the brilliance of LIBERAL SOCIALISM brought to you by “Jackie”

Let’s do the math, shall we? The top 25% ($65k and up) of federal income tax payers comprise 87% of all federal income tax taken in by US citizens. The top 10% ($110k and up) comprise 71%. The bottom 50% of tax payers pay only 3%.

You know, it doesn’t take a math genius to see where we already are, irrespective of what disgusting liberal socialists like Jackie think.

By Craig

October 19, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this

And another thing Jackie the lib:

To give an example to those that seem to have difficulty with this concept when they say that those American citizens that do not pay as much tax as others, why don’t we institute a proportional “use system.”

It’s already been thought up, moron lib: it’s called the FAIR TAX. But you liars on the assinine socialist left want to say it will cost me another $20 to fill up my tank. Yeah, I’ve seen the Saxby ad from your pathetic left wing ilk, Jackie.

By sandra

October 20, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Since when can a governor not be considered for the presidency? Need I say, Reagan, Bush, Clinton? The budget of Alaska is many times that of the Arkansas budget whenever Clinton was elected? Bigotry is your problem.

By Pat

October 20, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Jim, McCain should have been able to run as the voice of moderation and experience, and coasted to an easy win. And had McCain himself believed this enough; if he’d had the courage to CONTINUE to defy Bush and his party the past 18 months … if he’d stood up to the right wing base and selected his own choice for VP … appealed to the basic decency and common sense of Americans …if he’d chosen to sell himself this way AND take the actions needed to make it a credible argument, he’d be leading the polls. But he ruined that argument by selecting a bubble-headed beauty pageant contestant far less prepared for the job of President than Obama - laughably over-reaching arguments of partisans aside. But even before that, with the nomination in his sights, he began jettisoning his principles, on everything from campaign finance reform to choice and more. Then the cherry on the cake? One of the most viscious, un-American, racist smear campaigns ever, unsubstantiated attack after attack, all orchestrated by the same wrecking crew who visciously destroyed McCain and his family in South Carolina in 2000. Tell me - if someone smeared your wife and child, would you despise that person forever? Or would you think to yourself, “Hey, I gotta keep this guy’s number top of my Rolodex so I can do this to MY opponents?”

This guy was the conscience of the GOP. “WAS” being the operative word. He committed sepaku to win its nomination and the half-hearted approval of its vile base. That stiff thing you see paraded around at McCain Palin rallies before hissing mobs, a wierd, rigor mortis grin on its face, is a corpse. The real McCain has been dead for about two years.

The voters have heard the real voice of today’s GOP at the Palin rallies Jim. Your appeal comes too late.

By AnonyMoose

October 20, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

“There is no question that the nation and families would be more secure with John McCain in the White House.” Jim, tell that to the 100,000 people who gathered in St. Luis this weekend to hear senator Obama speak. Perhaps you’re just not asking the right people if they have questions about McCain.

“In my view, the effort by Congress to create social policies — “affordable housing”….” Jim, how did you feel about “affordable housing” when you were living in public housing as a child? My bet is that you were thankful your government provided a safety net so that you didn’t end up on the street. There is nothing worse than someone who would deny to others the good grace they have themselves received.

“This is an instance where the good common sense of ordinary Americans should kick in.We have heard promises before.Costs always trickle down.” Jim, I’m still waiting for that big business wealth to trickle down to me. Any idea when it’s going to arrive?

“The world is dangerous still. No potential adversary will misread John McCain. He’s a serious, experienced leader who on national security concerns does not send false signals.” Jim in this case, I will turn to the words of Senator Thad Cochran, a very conservative Republican from Mississippi: “The thought of his (John McCain) becoming president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”

By AnonyMoose

October 20, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

One more thought. As I said last week, if John McCain wanted to run against George W. Bush, he should have done so 4 years ago.

By Gordon

October 20, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

Ragnar @9:53:

Well done.

By kevin

October 20, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Jackie, you did not address the question I raised although that might not have been your intention. Mr. Obama said he wanted to spread the wealth around, did he not? Since he was not referring to his wealth but the wealth of the upper 5%, which he is a member by the way, he has to use the federal government as a means to spread the wealth around.

Is that not the definition of a socialist??

And to respond to AnonyMoose about waiting for a trikle down of big business wealth, unless you have committed capital to the process, why are you deserving of anything more than a fair wage? And if you don’t believe you getting a fair wage at work, than look elsewhere if your skills are in demand.

By Ande

October 20, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

GW Bush was elected with an all-Republican congress. Didn’t hear any objection then.

By Middle Class Tax Payer

October 20, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

All you wealthy people who think that people making less than $45,000 do not pay taxes must know something that I don’t. Please let me know how this is done so that I can share this information with those folks just like me.