Atlanta Opinion

By TW

November 7, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

The left loves John McCain again. Nobody is quite so dear to them as the maverick Republican they once loved who loses

Keep in mind, Mr. Wooten, that �loser� friend of the libs was the best you had to represent your party. The best you had�

I strongly recommend you open your mind, grab a pad and a pen, and take advantage of the eight year lesson in government you are about to receive :-)

By Mid-South Philosopher

November 7, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

A point you didn�t touch on this morning:

It looks as though Senate Majority Leader Harry �White Flag� Reid, bolstered by the gain of Democrat seats in the U.S. Senate as a result of Tuesday�s election, is taking �maverick,� Independent Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman to the �woodshed�!

Following a conversation between the two in Washington on Thursday, there is now some real doubt that Lieberman will be allowed to retain his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.

What Reid and the Democrats need to remember is that the American electorate is extremely fickle. Voters change with the wind. It was just a few short years ago that the Democrats were relying on the �filibuster� to keep them from being totally overwhelmed in the decisions-making process of the Senate. Now, they are back in power. I bet the Republicans are sure happy that they didn�t use the �nuclear option� as it was called then to forestall the �filibuster� process!

I would offer �White Flag� some advice, assuming that he is intelligent enough to understand it. Let Lieberman alone. Americans, on the whole, like a maverick. The notion of �lock-step,� party loyalty is embraced only by demigods and fools�like �White Flag.�

Remember, there is another Congressional Election in two years!

By Ragnar Danneskj�ld

November 7, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I have little sympathy for Sen. Stevens, and that small amount I hold is due to his advanced age. He did not represent conservatism. The strange charge that led to his conviction may be unprecedented in criminal trials. I also believe the venue was wrong, that if there was any deception, it was the voters of Alaska who were deceived and should have tried the matter, not a DC jury. Normally that combination of odd charges and questionable venue suggests the target was �targeted,� that someone somewhere was investigating the person rather than any particular suggestion of criminality. The rule of law compels us to avoid such activities, that we should investigate crimes to see where they lead, rather than people to see what we can get. The recent evidence of income non-reporting by Rep Rangel is almost a perfect match for these charges against Sen. Stevens; indeed, Rangel�s tax evasion is a more traditional prosecution. To Jim�s point, I would support 534 more such investigations into �under-reported� personal favors.

Handel did a good job. Maybe she will run against Johnny. I think it ought to be Romney-Palin, then eight years later Palin-Jindal. Piyush will be only 57 in 2028.

I remain unsure of the logical reason for a PSC.

�16 seats had no incumbent�.Redistricting software and the Voting Rights Act have eliminated party competition.� The parties have also realigned. Democrats are almost exclusively leftist � not more than a dozen conservatives at the national level. With the loss of the RINO presidential nominee and the defeat of the last northeast republican in the House of Representatives, there is no future for a Republican leftist. And moderates bring nothing to the debate anyway, other than an attitude of �I�m smarter than people who have a consistent philosophy, so I�ll be the decider in my own arbitrary way.�

Don�t know Ms. Jamison. If she is a leftist, she chose admirably to stick to her guns. If she is a conservative who stayed in the democrat party, she was not smart enough to pass the republican party entrance exams.

Leftists don�t really love McCain � they just tolerate wishy-washy republicans, knowing they can roll them at will. And tell Will to get out of the way.

As to Amendment 2, is that not the best evidence that Americans have learned to love Big Government. (I really wanted to say �Big Brother� there, but I�ll save that phrase for the Fairness Doctrine debates.)

The misguided concerns at Forrest School remind me of a funny story I need to tell sometime. Not now. I�m already past 425 words, and I don�t want to upset GGG.

I think one of Strunk�s rules is to never put �California� and �sanity� in the same sentence.

The leukemia story is fascinating. �Richard Wilson, a Ph.D. at the Washington University School of Medicine said: �We found 10 changes; 10 mutations in her tumor genome that may very well be related to her disease.�� In the meantime, the CDC discovers that eating wild game, killed by bullets, may introduce lead into the bloodstream. �The CDC report on human lead levels of hunters in North Dakota has confirmed what hunters throughout the world have known for hundreds of years, that traditional ammunition poses no health risk to people and that the call to ban lead ammunition was nothing more than a scare tactic being pushed by anti-hunting groups. As noted in a media advisory released by the North Dakota Department of Health, the highest lead level reading of an adult study participant was still below the CDC accepted lead level threshold for that of a child, and significantly lower than the CDC accepted lead level threshold for that of an adult.� No, I�m not going to suggest that the government entity was performing worthless research for a political agenda while the private entity was doing potentially highly-lucrative research that will save lives. No, that never crossed my mind.

Dear GGG, I am 16 words fewer than Jim today. So far.

By jojo

November 7, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

I am truly surprised, Jim, that you would suggest that former Rep. Jamieson simply switch parties to retain her seat. Both her legislative record and issues related to her business would have sunk her as a repub. This was a good change rather than the expedient and short-sighted one you have suggested. We now have a rep. in Michael Harden that reflects the values of the district (which no longer receives printed editions of the ajc!) and will be an effective legislator.

By jojo

November 7, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

I am truly surprised, Jim, that you would suggest that former Rep. Jamieson simply switch parties to retain her seat. Both her legislative record and issues related to her business would have sunk her as a repub. This was a good change rather than the expedient and short-sighted one you have suggested. We now have a rep. in Michael Harden that reflects the values of the district (which no longer receives printed editions of the ajc!) and will be an effective legislator.

By RED

November 7, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

How can any conservative vote for Martin?

Easy - to get rid of the liberal in GOP clothing who is WORSE than a liberal.

You guys are no longer making any sense.

We have shown you the STANDARDS of your party.

We have shown you how Saxby violates every one of them.

We have shown you how the GOP leadership squelches reform.

You are boxed in a trap of your own making.

We REAL CONSERVATIVES want you out of this party or to adopt standards - you won�t be able to - that define your behavior.

By tomhere

November 7, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

PALIN? Show me that she can identify the following nations on the world map: Norway Greece South Korea Tunisia New Zealand Madagascar Guatamala I’ve got $100 says she can’t do it.

By Ga Values

November 7, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Jim you need to see a shrink. Yesterday you said we need to re elect Saxby Chambliss(Socialist,Ga) and today you say Ted Stevens(RINO,Al). Let’s see Ted brings home the PORK for his home state while Saxby takes care of his LOBBYIST son Bo & mid west corn farmers. Saxby took over $2,000,000.00 for our vote in the rip off Bailout Wall Street Act, how much did Stevens get? To be kind to Saxby let’s just say he is a disgrace to our Republican Party.

By Reality Check

November 7, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good Morning all;

Maybe I am missing something, but I am reading about the future of the Republican party being somehow tied to Sara Palin, and when I look at the MSNBC, FOX, of CNN all I hear about is how really uninformed this woman is. And the things that are coming out are scary! Not knowing that Africa was a continant and not a country. Not knowing who signed NAFTA. Thinking that North America consisted only of the US and Canada? And the bad part is this is coming from the Republicans!!! Those on the right tried / are trying so hard to ram her down our collective throats, and she appears to be about as sharp as a bowling ball.

By F22 Man

November 7, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Iam 54 years old and all I have ever done is build airplanes, it’s hard work but I enjoy it. I am concerned about the possibility of Senator Chambliss being re elected. Obama plans to kill the F22 program & Chambliss will be a dead weight to keep the program. After the this vote every Democrat in Washungton will oppose anything Chambliss wants to do. Chambliss was unable to defend Georgia at the last round of base closings with a Republican President, so how can he help us keep the F22 program?

By One Voice

November 7, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Let’s see,

I would LOVE a Palin/Jindal ticket in 2012. That would be an even bigger landslide for Obama. There’s absolutely no precedent in modern politics for a LOSING VP candidate going on to be successful in a presidential run. And now that she’s been exposed as the lightweight she is and even the Republicans have begun to tear her to shreds, I can’t think of a better losing ticket for the Republicans. I loved her pick as VP because I knew it was a train wreck, and her GOP nomination in 2012 would be even better news. Wooten has shown an incredible propensity to be flat wrong with his political choices.

Nobody loves McCain like they did. He sullied his reputation with his dishonorable campaign and will go down in history as the nasty candidate who tried to scare his way into office by smearing the first Black president as a terrorist.

The California voters were wrong on gay marriage and it’s disappointing. Why do conservatives care who marries who? Republicans claim to be about personal freedoms and less restrictive government, but that’s clearly hypocrisy. I don’t care if two guys want to marry each other or two women do. Why should the government dictate that they can’t? Now that’s un-American.

Obama’s election certainly is a green light for a clean energy agenda. What would make any fool think otherwise? It should have been Bush’s agenda for the last 8 years, but then again, he’s a fool.

The country survived Bill Clinton? Are you serious? We had a booming economy and a peaceful world throughout the 90’s. I think you meant to say we barely survived the idiot Bush’s reign and no one with an IQ above 80 could possibly perform more poorly as president. This kind of thinking shows why as the older voters die off and the country becomes less white, the Republican Party will continue to fade into oblivion. You better find a new way or you will end up far more marginalized than you are now.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 7, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

DETROIT � The Ford Motor Company, battered by the weak economy and a shift in consumer preferences, said on Friday that its automotive business lost $2.9 billion in the third quarter and announced more cuts to conserve cash, including another 10 percent reduction in salaried payroll costs and lower capital spending.

Go to your Portfolio � Ford said that it burned through $7.7 billion in cash in the third quarter, leaving it with $18.9 billion at the end of September, as vehicle sales in the United States plunged amid historically weak levels of consumer confidence and tight credit markets that have prevented some consumers from obtaining loans.

By F101 Voodoo Man

November 7, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

How about a Jindal-Anybody Else ticket? Actually, Palin has about three years to rehabilitate her unfairly tarnished image and show she’s no idiot. Still, Jindal is an amazing fellow, who should be on top of the ticket.

What’s happening with Obama’s granny? Isn’t there a funeral he needs to go to? Mayby not. I worked for six months in northern California and most of the newspaper obituaries said, “The body will be cremated and there will be no funeral service.” Other parts of the country are not as funeral sensitive as the South.

Speaking of that California reputation, there are a lot of conservatives there.

By F101 Voodoo Man

November 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

How about a Jindal-Anybody Else ticket? Actually, Palin has about three years to rehabilitate her unfairly tarnished image and show she’s no idiot. Still, Jindal is an amazing fellow, who should be on top of the ticket.

What’s happening with Obama’s granny? Isn’t there a funeral he needs to go to? Maybe not. I worked for six months in northern California and most of the newspaper obituaries said, “The body will be cremated and there will be no funeral service.” Other parts of the country are not as funeral sensitive as the South.

Speaking of that California reputation, there are a lot of conservatives there.

By CommunistAJC

November 7, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

tomhere, And Barrack Hussein thinks that there are 58 states. That makes me more nervous than Palin not knowing where Tunisia is. By the way, isn’t it funny that no one from the Mccain Camp has come out and publicly said this? We have Obama Hussein on tape. We also know that Biden can’t count. All the Palin bashing shows just how scared you libs are of her. The ball is in the democrats court. If you guys screw it up, and you will big time, then the country will promptly show you the exit. Time to put up or shut up.

One Voice, I highly doubt Jindal/Palin would be a landslide for Obama. Why? Because Mccain never ran a competent campaign. He was too busy playing nice with not going after democrats and Obama. Palin is not scared of them. By the way, we did not have peace throughout Clinton. We were bombed 4 times and we went to war to throw the media off of his sex scandal with a teenager. Keep talking smack my misguided comrade. The next few years are not going to be fun.

By The Campaign to Layoff Wooten

November 7, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

How has the Voting Rights Act eliminated party competition in statewide elections? See this is the reason YOUR party is becoming nothing more than a regional, divisive, out-of-date group. By giving minorities the right to vote without having to pay poll taxes and other means of suppressing their vote, this is bad for the state? Or bad for Republicans? You all have nothing to offer minorities, and the huge latino vote that you all lost this election only reinforces it. The electorate is finally realizing that Republicans seek out the vote of the poor and uneducated masses, so that they can give tax breaks to millionaires. Your philosophy is as old as you are Wooten, you better catch up. The world is changing and if you don’t change with it you’ll be outta here. Just like your party. Those under 40 went to integrated schools and have coexisted in society with other races their entire lives. You partisan code words don’t work anymore. Please ajc, put this tired old man out to pasture.

By Cakey

November 7, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

You and your accolades..It’s 3 days after the election and votes are still being counted; 75.000 voter registration cards found in a trash bin in Southwest Atlanta; absentee ballots are missing and you’re praising Handel? You are just as delusional as the Republicans!!

By Steven Daedalus

November 7, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

If we survived Bill Clinton,what in H—- did we do during the Bush years, sink and endure.

By fedupingwinnett

November 7, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

All you Palin bashers….don’t you find it a bit fishy that the republicans or whoever are making these charges against her are unnamed or anonymous? That fact makes it unbelievable. The stage was set prior to the election that she would be the scapegoat when McCain lost. Enough said.

By One Voice

November 7, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Dagnard,

Some questions: Aren’t you the one who said last week that McCain would win because he’d take Pennsylvania and who accused me of being in lockstep because I knew what the outcome would be? Wasn’t Pennsylvania called for Obama about 3 seconds after the polls closed? Did Obama not win an electoral landslide? Wouldn’t lockstep be a more accurate description of someone who was repeating false talking points in order to maintain a facade? Do you get tired of making yourself look foolish on here every day when your pompousness is proven wrong so consistently?

By findog

November 7, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Jim,

While a Stalinist purge might be fun to watch it is up to Alaska or the Senate to do the right thing for rarely do we find that quality in a professional politician. Republicans are no better or worse than democrats in this area, like Stalin these politicians build cults of personality that blind the local populous to the true evil of corruption.

Handel�s job was made harder by Saxby�s you know who�s voting early and the state house republican�s rethinking the early voting laws because of the perception that democrats were the ones lining up for hours to vote ahead of election day. Your point that she did a good, no great, job while holding off ridiculous requests for change warped by scandalous accusations is what we should hope all government would aspire to is accurate.

The only solution to gerrymandering of reliably safe seats is to create software that will create the districts based on zip codes and water utilities so that they are blindly drawn without political considerations. The operative phrase, �political considerations,� dooms the idea to never, never land.

Just like the religious right claiming they brought Regan to power. Any group that claims to have elected the president is an outright looser for they have forgot the operative phrase of democracy, �We the people��

Flag on the play. Even Hosea Williams would say of Lester that he did more for the poor and blacks that any other governor. You sir are no better than the Tyron Brooks of the left when you stoop to this level of character assassination referring to Maddox in the same screed as Nixon and slick Willy.

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Should public office holders live in the districts they represent? OF course not. And while we’re at it, why not build an ivory tower in dunwoody where they ALL can live. Then let’s build a special amusement park for just office holders. and shopping safaris. dont forget palin-style shopping safaris. Palin deserved it. Most public chicks (nancy pelosi, tipper gore, elizabeth dole) dont.

Coddling public servants is what brought Rome down. (that, and those toga parties).

I’m thinking about Palin at a toga party now. Life could be a dream. Sha na na naaa.

All these new faces in public arenas trump the poster child politician with grey hair and a fat round white face. Newt is unelectable. Round fat faces are out. Newt should market a line of bedpans, you know, the kind he stepped in to force his wife’s signature on that divorce settlement. What a clumsy man. What a clown act. Stay where UR, Newt. I’ve got 45 minutes of material just for you.

Osama. Obama. Nobama. Yesbama. OuiBama. AliBama. Alibaba and the forty thieves.

That’s who Osama Bin Laden is, you know. He’s Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. That’s what was triggered the comfortable fear in our subconscious and what Bush used to paint the enemy. That cartoon caused the Iraq War.

The consequences of the Iraq War will now rear their ugly heads during Obama’s first year. A shock awaits us. We fought and died to set our worst enemy in power. We lost the Iraq War, but only because Bush is wrong way Harrigan, who scored a touchdown for the opposing team, and lost the game. It’s as if we fought with the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Seriously. You’ll see them implode in a sectarian free for all.

The Kurds. that’s the wild card. they dont trust. they dont believe a word…. They aren’t about to reliquish control over their gas fields, nor allow any shia/sunni army into their leibensraum (living space). If we deploy anywhere with a smaller force, it should be interjected between Kurdistan and the Sunni/Shia Army. (Is that anything like the Sushi Army?)

SUSHI is an acronym for the SUNNI SHIA ARMY Sushi is best served with Rice.

Now let’s grade Wooten: The last paragraph. Is there anything worse than a someone playing doctor on a TV? Yes, someone playing doctor on a PC. Oh? they’ve identified a “set of mutations” that may have caused the disease 2 progress? Do you realize that you set back bio-physics 300 years with that sentence? Dont go there. Dont even try to report about anything remotely resembing a double helix. Worse, you then conclude with non-sequiturs. You claim that health care is expensive with no supporting data, just folklore. The whole passage is such a mess, that I speet on it!

“Politics has a place, but it’s not our whole life”? That’s what people say when they’re about to disown their behavior. That wasn’t me. I’m a different person. I have a separate life, and I was only acting like I thought I was supposed to act, which was modeled upon a far-right composite of evangelical group think and what Rushannity prompted me to say.

Jim Wooten, You opened this blog a few years ago with this philosophy: “I think that a blog can be used to advance the discussion”. Naturally, you are supposed to “stir the pot” You should present extreme views to elicit the passions that make for entertaining debate. However you forgot one critical thing about this media (blog). It’s uniquely autonomous. The average IQ of commenters is the average IQ, there is no law of personal respect for others. It’s like graffiti writers in restroom stalls who become a devil for other readers who will occasion the comment, easily eclipsing the envelope of propriety, and thrill in the idea that others will be influenced by your own riff (and drawing. and BTW, graffiti picassos: The peeny doesnt have arms and legs or hands and feet.) morons.

Most of your satirical passages are completely lost on 90 percent of your readers. You only succeeded in creating the cyberspace equivalence of mob think, vigilante banter, and thug rule.

By Frost

November 7, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

How about Palin-Jindal ticket (as in Louisiana Gov. Bobby) in 2012?

you must have missed the talking points on Fixnoise Oreily factor.That Palin woman is poison and as ignorant as my new born baby.She dont know the countries comprising North America,that Africa is a continent not a country,that South Africa is not the same as Africa,does not know the functions of the Deputy President’s office for which she was a candidate.Had u listened to Cam Cameroon’s report on the Oreily factor,you would have been proud and relieved to realize that the american electorate rejected and survived this Ignorant Fraud that those on the left knew all along.It was surprising and refreshing,hearing it from FixNoise.For somebody who took 5 years to get a single degree,we on the left were not surprised tho.She is Miss Air Head! There are better choices and plz dont put Jindal in her company at all.He is way better and deserves better Republican company!

By ron

November 7, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Good morning,Senator Stevens said he had no idea what was going on and I have a tendency to believe him.I doubt that he ever knew what was going on.

Karen Handel did the job she was hired to do.Let’s leave it at that.

Jeanette Jamison is a Democrat.Apparently there are still some people that won’t compromise their principles to get elected.

Someone has to love John McCain,The Republicans have placed all the blame on his shoulders.They don’t like Palin now either.

I know that Africa is a continent,I just can’t think what I can do with that knowledge.

The left does not have a mandate,they have a simple majority.The minorities that voted for Obama also were the driving force behind the passage of the California bill that limited marriage to one man,one woman.That bill is going to have many problems.For one thing,it fails to deal with the marriages that have already take place.The bill will be a lawyer’s dream.

The unraveling of the disease lukemia is a fascinating subject.A set of mutations are thought to be responsible for the disease’s progression.Now the cause of the mutations is going to have to be pinpointed.Chemically caused?The result,perhaps ,of a cosmic particle hitting something in the body just right?The spontaneous shifting of an individual cell? The answer will be very interesting.

By DirtyDawg

November 7, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

You folks really serious about Sarah Palin? Now that’s funny - or it would be funny if it weren’t so ignorant. Just keep it up and ‘the base’ of the Republican Party will be the only thing left of your ‘permanent majority’. And a Palin-Jindal (or the other way around) ticket? Now that’s really not funny. The first item on their agenda will be a Constitutional Amendment to remove the word ‘evolution’ from dictionaries and the teaching of same from school curricula.

And by the way, the state ‘survived’ Lester Maddox because Lester was a hellovalot better Guv than any of us imagined he would be including increasing spending and focus on the State’s Community Development and Tourism effort - more so than any other Governor before or since.

By Simple Answers

November 7, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

One Voice asks of Ragweed: “Do you get tired of making yourself look foolish on here every day when your pompousness is proven wrong so consistently?”

The answer is “no, never”.

This is the first edition of simple answers to simple questions.

By CommunistAJC

November 7, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Frost, Who is making these accusations against Palin? That’s right, NO ONE KNOWS! You sit there and claim that she is an idiot yet Biden and Hussein both made more gaffes than anyone else. Hussein said that he’d been to all 58 states and Biden can’t count. Your bias is showing, comrade. I remember how the media said that Reagan was a dumb hick. We all know how that turned out.

Jindal/Palin-2012

By One Voice

November 7, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC,

You probably didn’t think McCain/Palin would get crushed in a landslide either.

You don’t have to call me comrade. I’m not your comrade and I’m not a communist. I’m a socialist. Big difference.

Bombings by a small group of fanatics is not the same as a war that’s causing the country to go bankrupt. Use your brain.

The next 4 years will be better than the last 8, although it may take another 2 years to begin to recover from the Stooge’s mistakes. You’ll lose about 5-8 more Senate seats in 2010, even though the House balance may stay the same as it is now. Democrats will get a great deal done in the first four years of Obama’s presidency. Then the Republicnas will lose to him again in 2012 because they still won’t have realized that their current positions are losers for the duration. It won’t be until after 2012 when you finally come to your senses and reevaluate your misguided platform. Good luck in 2016!

By J

November 7, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

One Voice, “California voters were wrong on gay marriage”

What happened to majority rules? Maybe you should become dictator so you can decide for all the ignorant masses.

By Aquagirl

November 7, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Far more important and encouraging is news that for the first time researchers have decoded all the genes of a woman who died of leukemia, identifying a set of mutations that may have caused the disease to progress. Lesson: Politics has its place, but it�s not our whole life.

Oh really, Jim? Those researchers were educated in modern biology, where evolution is a cornerstone concept. If your nutty religious crowd had their way, we’d be trying to cure leukemia with alchemy.

By CommunistAJC

November 7, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

One Voice, Big words little man. Oh, and Obama Hussien didn’t win in a landslide. He won the popular vote by a few million. The last landslide was Reagan. He won every state but two. That, comrade, is a landslide. You’re a socialist? Well, I’d advise you to head back to France will all of your other pu$$y wimps. Again, if your party fails within the first two years then I can guarantee you that they will be thrown out. If Hussein fails to protect the country then he will be shown the door. Good luck Benedict Arnold.

By Harry

November 7, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Karen Handel illegally purged over 50,000 eligible voters in her partisan attempts to suppress the Democratic vote.

Lines for early voting were 6 hours or more, but she fought every attempt to plan ahead or make a few changes to help the situation.

Her dire warnings of 8 hour waits on Election Day were completely wrong, but it did manage to suppress the vote.

So in typical republican fashion you say:

Heck of job Brownie!

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Dammit, ron, how dare you say, “Handel did the job she was hired to do, and leave it at that.”

That’s like saying, “Lucifer thought he could win, otherwise, why would he have rebeled. He thought he could win. That indicates something about how powerful we ALL will be in the afterlife. So powerful that we can confront the Creator himself. that explains why we are on earth: as a test of our ability to control our passions and not victimize the arbitrary bodies in our orbit.

Agree?

Handel is a rat. She purposefully shorted the number of voting machines it would take to accomodate the early voting throngs of minorities so that they would really have to be motivated to stay in long, long lines in order to express their civic duty. That’s unforgiveable, man. She is a criminal of the worst sort, and enemy of democracy, and a total evil woman. She will burn in hell forever for her role in this election. the idea that there are still vestiges of the institution of slavery dilluting the compliance with the spirit of our democratic traditions is wrenchingly nauseous. Get rid of Handel fast. Handel: just resign. just go away, you horrid witch.

Ron. read more. try not to believe your own propaganda about what a player UR.

and try the salve.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 7, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

F22 Man 8:30 AM

As an old grunt I think the F22 program should be cancelled & the money spent where it is need. I agree with you that Saxby will not be able to deliver anything to Georgia but his main concern has always been mid west corn farmers.

Your only hope to save the F22 is probably Jim Marshall from the 8th district who is on the house armed forces committee. He does not get along with Saxby, so I guess if we want to waste billions on the un necesarry f22 you need to be voting for Jim Martin.

By findog

November 7, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

F22 Man @8:30

I remember when Nunn retired and the republicans chased Newt from the capitol. You guys almost bought it then; your argument against Saxby has merit, but Georgian�s are proud mavericks and probably will not heed your warning�

Tom @9:11

Sushi is rice, figuratively and nutritionally

By JohnF

November 7, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

The passage of Proposition 8 only proved that fear mongering is still a viable way to gain votes.

Who voted for prop 8?

Overwhelmingly the white bumpkins from California’s agriculture belt and East Nowhere (ever been to Bakersfield..pretty scary..by the way, if you would like to shoot a young male homosexual in the back of the head, that is the place to do it), along with blacks, and mostly black women..guess they was a-scared that they boy friends be on the DL.

Those that opposed the measure were from the coastal and urban areas..(you know where you actually get the chance to interact with people that are not exactly like you)

The statistics already show those that oppose Prop 8 were mostly college educated people, while those that voted for it only had a High School education..if that.

And the Mormons came up with a clever commercial exploiting all the fears about how them queers were gonna take over the schools and convert their kids into leather wearing fruits or flannel shirt wearing lesbians.

Of course it doesn’t matter that the world actually has models of societies that allow gay marriage. As far as I know heterosexuality is still popular in Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Massachusetts. But why look at facts when you can use fear?

It’s all BS Wooten..just like your “blog”.

By J

November 7, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Aquagirl, Don’t fall into the trap of painting religion with such a broad brush. Plenty of doctors are religious too.

By Ga Values

November 7, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

F101 Voodoo Man

In early 1969 I traded a case of AK47’s for a joy ride in a F101, Wow. It was 1 of the set up for recon models but it was still geat. I have a 35mm slide in my collection of a 101 at tree top dropping a 500 pounder.

By One Voice

November 7, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

J- You may want to read some Thoreau (and FYI he’s an American author in case you never heard of him and thought he was French).

Commy AJC- Obama won by nearly 8,000,000 votes and doubled McCain’s electoral total. That’s a landslide.

I’ll gladly stay here since my party will have unmitigated power for the next 8 years. And your descriptions don’t really fit for a 225 lb former heavywieght boxer, football player, and MMA fighter. Wrong once again, foolish, spinless man.

By Redneck Convert

November 7, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Well, I say it’s better to elect a axe murderer to the Senate than a librul Democrat. So Stevens took a few hunderd thousand on the side. Who don’t?

We need Stevens in the Senate to make sure we perteck the public health. He can gang up with other godly Republicans to keep the librul Democrats from passing a tax increase. And if they passed a tax increase we would need about a dozen Roto-Rooter tank trucks and every mop in GA to clean up the mess Raghead would make. People would be able to whiff the smell the minute they crossed into GA.

Have a good day everybody.

By Frost

November 7, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Frost, Who is making these accusations against Palin? the Republicans in Mccain’s Camp,not liberals! If it were liberals,Fox wld have none of it.Yu get it now Communist

Ignore Palin’s Air headedness at your own party’s peril comrade.

By Frost

November 7, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

what do u all say about Mccain,s drubbing at the polls????

Is Ragnar still around??

By Hugo

November 7, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

A school wants to change its name because it was named after one of the founders of the KKK Nathan Bedford Forrest and you Mr Wooten don’t believe this is important. The Republican Party is not just sinking it has sunk.

By JohnF

November 7, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

J,

If they took a vote in the 1500’s as to whether the world was round or flat and the majority agreed that it was flat (as was the case then)..would that make the world flat?

I imagine a few decades back that a majority of people could have voted to amend their constitution to restrict a minority (blacks) from being able to vote.

Can you describe any other time in this country where a majority of people were able to vote on and decide what a minority of people could or could not do? (i.e., something other than issues related to gay rights)

Can anyone?

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Ga Values, yeah, I bought the same wallet with the same picture of the tree-top bombing from the F101. If you are not for real, sir……

I am the Airforce. I was born in a Jug, man. I was weaned on the teet of a Goony Bird. When I first saw the F-100, I thought we should have invaded Russia. I was four.

I never was more than five hundred feet feet from a runway until I was in my teens, man.

SO dont got there. Just dont. I can smell a troll a mile away. I used to watch takeoffs and landings all day long. I’d just stare. I absorbed flight.

In Nam, my dad said that he never ever landed his C-47 without flying through flack. Ever. the cong were bad shots, man. They couldn’t hit the broad side of a…..UGH! (camera to me being hit by a piece of shrapnel that somehow floated around in the atmosphere for forty years and suddenly fell through my roof.)….they got me….tell my mom I always liked her apple pie….it’s getting dark….I smell bread cooking….oh auntie Em……(the ajc regrets the loss of it’s most entertaining blogger and who is solely responsible for the increase in the number of total jackwipes who infest this blog. we now return control of this site to you…blog on).

this is a sad day.

By Steven Daedalus

November 7, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

I’m glad the Republican Party’s hopes are tied to Sarah Palin, maybe they will all move to Alaska, by the way, the most Socialistic state in the Union, with all their subsidies, and they eventually cross the Bering Strait and live happily everafter with all the Stalinists in Siberia. It seems like a perfect fit, and the rest of us will be spared their whining.

By Aquagirl

November 7, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

J @ 9:38, please understand I said the “nutty” religious crowd, who so champion the G.W. Bushes and Sarah Palins of the world. There are plenty of decent, sane people who consider themselves religious. Unfortunately, they seem willing to let the nutty folk represent them in the Republican party. Moderate Muslims have a responsibility to stand up to extreme radicals. So do Christians. As long as Jim is considered “Right,” I rest my case.

By Tomhere

November 7, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Technically there are 58 “states”, because the “territories” are referred to as “states”. So, Hussein Osama Obama YoMama was correct. How about this: Let’s just do away with Alaska. All you Palin geeks move up there, renounce your citizenship in the Obamanation, and you can HAVE ALASKA. You can have the oil, the timber, the mineral, kill all the Salmon AND the Polar Bears, DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. You will have to apply for a visa to come visit here, you will have no border with the “Lower 48”. You will have your OWN SOVEREIGN NATION. You can screw it up anyway you want. How clearly I remember what you told ME when I protested the Viet Nam War: AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. SO… BACK ATCHA MAMMYJAMMER……..

By findog

November 7, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

One @9:26

In 2010 the efforts will be on state legislative races. That is because those bodies will take the census data and draw the districts for the 2012 House that will last ten years. Remember the Hammer�s project to flip five house seats in Texas?

The question then is will the democrats deliver sensible solutions that can be of significant consequence to persuade voters to turn their state houses blue?

AS FOR RAGNAR He certainly does not need, nor probably want, my moderate support but if half the liberal or progressive positions here were as well informed as his [though some times I feel they are misguided] then this blog would be worthy of the first amendment right we as a people share like no other group governed by a central government.

By Dusty

November 7, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Well, Jim Wooten, the beat goes on and the libs are still beating it out. (That sounds like PoFo who is Tom Becker today for those of you new to this blog). I do believe Libs have a list made out.

Last week it was McCain Palin. This week it is Chambliss, Palin and Handel. I’ll be glad when those Demo Election funds run out. Well, maybe they have.
Chad Harris isn’t here yet. Mostly just “hanger-ons” today.

But let’s see. Stevens, old time politician, thinks he deserves “favors”. Found out differently. Handel preserves election laws. Gets the “black spot” from Dems. Palin is sharp as a tack and good politician, just needing a bit more battle experience. McCain will always be a hero no matter how hard Dems tried to convince us otherwise. Chambliss is a good ol’ boy who better watch his back with all the daggers being thrown.

Obama should hurry up and make one of those pretty speeches. People are going to forget why they elected him, ‘specially when he is filling up the place with Clinton retreads. (Isn’t it interesting how some libs still try to put a halo on Bill Clinton? Fantasia in action!)

George W. Bush and the first lady are showing the fine character they posess. Giving a warm welcome to future inhabitants of the White House is not routine. But they are bringing in Obama and Michelle with grace and charm. Now that is the way to do it.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

November 7, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

People opposed to gay marriage can pass all the propositions they want but the courts will knock them down. And they should! If men want to marry other men and women want to marry women let ‘em. I don’t care! Homosexual marriage has no effect upon me or my family. Live and let live. Same sex marriage will be good for sellers of wedding attire, cake makers, photographers and divorce attorneys. These unions pose no threat to me and they don’t to anyone else either. Let people be whomever they want to be. If they aren’t posing a threat to public welfare then leave them alone!

By Andrew

November 7, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Jim likes to suggest that lying about a sex act almost destroyed this country. Bush’s disregard for the Constitution has done far more, I would say.

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Tomhere: unreadable. I have no idea what you wrote. none. and I read you 3 times.

Findog; Ditto, man. WTF? shrooms this early? YOu made no sense. Sorry. truly sorry.

John F: EXCELLENT!! I’m not worthy. But I love the prompt. Just what criteria did Europe use to decide whether the earth was flat or round? I love it!

Great material. I will spend today coming up with a top ten list of criteria points that medieval europe used to determine the ground upon which they walked.

great stuff, sir!

and thanx for being normal.

By findog

November 7, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Hugo @9:52

Gump�s namesake was the first leader of the KKK, who later disbanded the organization.

The point that you blindly missed is that the school is failing to provide a quality education to the children and that changing the name, and probably a subsequent PC renaming of the �Rebel� mascot, is much less important than its primary mission but a classic misdirection by clueless rubes [like you].

Tom @10:06 Pants on fire

By Reality Check

November 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Dusty @ 10:17

Palin is sharp as a tack????? Are you kidding me? Now I read this blog daily, and I understand that you are hard right ( almost to the point and blindness), but to continue to pine for this woman is CRAZY! The daggers being thrown at Palin are not coming from the left, They are beong put out there by The Mccain folks who were given the impossible task of trying to make her seem worthy of being on a field that large. I like to compare her to being 5 feet tall at a midget convention… You are the tallest person in the room, but in the big picture, you ( SHE) is still short…..

By One Voice

November 7, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

findog,

Dagnard certainly has the right to be wrong and misguided. Our disagreement is on the substance of his views. You too may want to note the trends of the beliefs of the American people, particularly the Hispanics, whose population is growing rapidly, and young Americans, who will be voting for 50 more years. White Americans will probably comprise less than 50% of the country by 2020 and fewer of them will hold conservatives ideals.

By Dusty

November 7, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Aquagirl,

I do believe that you have decided that every religious persion is a snake handling, “speaking in tongues” indiviual who studies science on a ouiji board. You call them conservative Republicans.

Fortunately, you are wrong. Most of the major denomination in Christianity believe in the simple yet saving Christ, one main element being “love for humanity”. They also follow the laws of the USA and do not interfere with the beliefs of others unless it breaks the law.

Science is taught on the basis of facts and not religion. The scientists who found the genetic mutations in the leukemia case may or may not be Christian or MUulim or whatever. They are scientists, not philosophers. Their scientific work will be done in research not religion.

Laws may change but true science will not. I hope you in the legal field will never try to change that premise to combine it with religion. If you do, it will no longer be considered “science”.

By AmVet

November 7, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Andrew,

William Jefferson Clinton betrayed his wife.

George Walker Bush betrayed the nation.

By findog

November 7, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

TB @10:27

I would attempt to explain, but you gave no reference to where you were left clueless, though that idea may be redundant. Local cow patty fungal growths can open a willing mind; I guess you just wouldn�t understand let alone qualify. Wish I could stay and play but I have to go make sure water will run down hill�

By The Snark

November 7, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

If Katherine Harris — ooops, I meant to say Karen Handel — did such a great job, why are we sitting here on Friday still waiting on the final ballot count to see if there will be a run-off for Senator?

By Steve

November 7, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

“partisans were gunning for something that would gin up Democratic turnout.”

Why is it that “thinking right” means being against having more people vote? Republicans are free to “gin up” their vote as well.

The reason people are mad at Handel has to do with waiting in line for hours and that she did nothing to try to alliviate that, which of course smelled of a partisian attempt to suppress the vote.

As far as Obama’s agenda, during the election, he was very clear about what he planned to do. Post-election attempts by the right to spin it differently are just wishful thinking on their part.

By Peter

November 7, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Jim will NEVER talk about the REAL Issues facing America, and he will NEVER talk about Solutions……

This is the real REPUBLICAN Mind set..the Mind set that got Hammered in the last election…… The Blame game, and the Attacks are what the REPUBLICAN’S are all about.

Today we still have Bush Raping the Ecology of America and Polluting as mush as they can…….. the Unemployment is through the roof…………..the Spending is so far out of control, that to call themselves even close to “Conservative” is a TOTAL JOKE !

There are ZERO ANSWERS that come from the RIGHT…….. Just what can be done for ME, ME, ME, ME, Big Business a few Rich folks and Screw America in General.

Someday Jim and the rest of the Republican’s WILL wake up……… and to actually be a PART of the Solution, and NOT the PROBLEM……..to do this they will have to have Idea’s that are GOOD for America, and not for just a few !

By Curious Observer

November 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Post-election observation: Same old junk. A presidential candidate knows he’s losing big-time. But will he acknowledge it? Not at all. He puts out word that the gap is “closing.” Sometimes I think a political candidate would rather acknowledge the practice of bestiality than acknowledge a looming electoral disaster. Everybody’s got to be optimistic, regardless of reality.

And why is anyone surprised that Fulton County still does not have final election results? Fulton County—worst administrative processes in the nation. I was reminded of that when I went to the North Fulton Courthouse Annex to vote early. A long line snaked through various hallways. When I finally got to the check-in room, I discovered the reason. A single worker—one—was doing all the computer checks. In about ten minutes, a second worker strolled in, talked and laughed with the first worker for a few minutes, and then sat down to a terminal. Meanwhile, hundreds of would-be voters waited.

Why must Fulton County residents be saddled with such incompetence? It isn’t confined to voting. The staff I encounter when I go to renew my vehicle registration treat taxpayers as though they were cattle. And I dare you to just try to get in touch with any courthouse worker by telephone. You will be long dead before anybody answers.

I never thought I would have any sympathy at all for Karen Handel. But in the case of Fulton County, I do. No other county in the United States would deliberately violate state law and allow vote-counters to go home before absentee and provisional ballots were counted.