I understand people grieve when their loved ones die. But damn Kanye come back to reality. Your mama is gone, he looks terrible, sounds terrible and acts terrible since his mom died. He is making people not like him or his music anymore. Come back to life Kanye, pray or do something to get back on the right track
Kanye has lost his itty bitty mind. For him to even attempt to put himself on the same level as the GREAT Martin Luther King, Jr. is INSANE. He needs a mentor ASAP!! He is such a LAME, attention-seeking BRAT!!!
Kanye West (Martin Louis the King Jr.) is excellent at what he does. Understand that most artists build their names from positive people and images. Lets break the name down.
Martin: of course the positive impact that Martin Luther King Jr. had on the public. Louis: Louis Vitton is a brand name that Mr. West enjoys to wear. The King: Mr. West is reigning #1 in his profession. Jr: There were Kings of rap that came before him.I beleive that if we took the time to ask Mr. West, he is intelligent enough to let us know the positive reasons why he changed his name as an artist.
It’s obvious that Kanye is having a mental breakdown in the aftermath of his mother’s sudden & unexpected death, and the subsequent break-up with his longtime girlfriend.
If he had any realy friends, they’d grab him by the elbow & have a “Eh, bruh come here lemme holla at you for a minute” conversation with him. Then send him to the nearest psychiatric provider for medical assistance.
well first lets say that Kanye is just another thats needs attention and he thinks that he’s all that and isn’t.the sad part is that he doesn’t even know it.no sense in telling him because all he’s going to do is start crying. he’s good for not getting the RESPECT he deserves right, please give me a BREAK.take your A!! somewhere and sit down no cares about your sneakers and we definetly won’t be calling you who,what,why sit down Kanye we are very ,very tired of you
a. Who is this person? I’ve never heard of him. b. And why does he get to make such a smarmy and obvious ref to a truly famous and revered person simply because he’s acting, “like” himself? and c. Who wrote this, a teenager?
It appears Kanye is suffering from Michael Jackson disease. That is a disease where your success goes literalyy to your head. Michael changed his skin color and face and turned into Michele. Now Kanye wants to be “The King”. They both need to really find God and “get real”.
Obama should direct language to be drafted in the future that contains a formula. It would give assistance to bail out a bank that is inversely proportional to average compensation of the executives. OK, admitted that sounds complicated but in essence it is this: The more they pay their executives on average the less they get. Banks that want public money need to cut compensation … that simple. Bank boards generally make such decisions and they need a disincentive plan. To support this, he can ask the finance committees in Congress to use open records rules that share holders (that’s us) of financial institutions to find out the compensation of the executives.
If you as a bank want to survive by getting public money, your and mine, in this slump which they all helped create, then lets devise a formula to force this reality home.
I am so convinced that something is seriously wrong with him. What in the world kind of drug is he on??? Does he actually believe people will address him as Martin Louis King Jr.???
Is Kanye’s publicist on vacation or did one of his friends leak a video only meant for friends that would get the joke? This is kind of funny, as he appears a bit intoxicated, but I would hope that he is embarrassed that it out like that… Hmmmm.. counseling might work.
What’s up with all the hip-hop name changin’? Why can’t people just use the names they mommas gave em’? Are they afraid the outstanding warrants will be easier to serve if they use they real names? Kanye has just gone a little further up his own azz (if that’s even possible).
yes he is off his rocker! this is the same dude that said a few weeks ago he wanted “less fans”. so why do people keep buying his music? cuz we all addicted to a little crazy every-now and again! LOL!!!
this man is on some serious anti-depressant drugs. we are just going to have to hope he gets better before its too late. he a prime candidate for other mental issues.
I pulled up to the ATM one afternoon to get cash and noticed someone left their card inside the machine and the message on the screen was asking for my next transaction. Someone left their ATM card in the machine and drove off, I immediately pressed the button for no further transactions and retrieved the person’s ATM card, got out of my car and dropped it into the night depository. I have gotten so many comments from people that I mention the story to that they would have done something totally different. I did exactly what I would have expected someone else to do if that had been my ATM card left in the machine. I have no regrets about what I did.
It was about 10 pm and i noticed a bank bag lying in the middle of the intersection.I picked it up drove home and when i opened it up there was lots of cash and checks.The checks were made payable to the ronals mcdonald house here in augusta ga.I called the local mcdonalds and returned the money rhight away.There was a fundraiser that night for mcdonald foundation and when the director put the money on her car roof to open her car she drove off the bag fell off.
I pulled up to the ATM machine and discovered that the person in the car ahead of me had left his card in the machine. I tried to stop him but he continued to drive off. The machine asked do you want to make another transaction? I pressed no and fortunately the bank was still opened for business so I took the card to the teller at the drive through window. I would hope that someone would do the same thing for me.
I’m with you. I skip Valentine’s day every year. I don’t need society to tell my husband to tell me he loves me. Why should he have to shell out $50 on a $20 bouquet of roses? Why should we have to sit in a crowded restaraunt with everyone else who decided it was romantic to go out to dinner this one night of the year? If you are truely in love, you do this any night other than Valentine’s day. We’ll be staying home, cooking dinner, and watching a movie. If he wants to buy me candy, he can go out the day after and buy it on sale.
We’ve been nearly 30 years and we avoid Valentine’s Day other than the occasional card- and we might manage to say “Happy Valentine’s Day” if we remember. But I’d bet my marriage against anyone’s. We have coffee in bed together and hold hands every morning, each night we spend together. Why pick one particular day to show someone you care?
I’ve long said a single rose in the middle of July means more than 2 dozen on Valentine’s Day. Women, remember, ANY gift you get on Valentine’s Day is given out of fear not out of true love.
I’ve always thought Valentine’s Day was a silly holiday. I’d rather my sweetie do something special or thoughtful for me on a random day….just because he wanted to. He does that all the time, so I see no need for a specific holiday set aside for it. I’m pleased to see by the other responses that I’m not the only female that thinks this way. Among my many girlfriends I’m an oddity, but thats ok with me, my sweetie’s guy friends are envious, lol.
my ex-boyfriend that was my fiancee cheated on me with 2 other women!Not only that, he married one of them and he did have the balls to tell me.I found out from his 8yrold niece.They chose that date so he wouldn’t back out. But on the day of her shower he called me. After they got married , 11 days later he came to me saying that he made a big mistake.Not my favorite day but thats ok. Because he’s been cheating on her for all of their marriage. By the way she was best friends with his ex-girlfriend!They deserve one another.
Valentine’s Day is just a useless “holiday”. Thank God I do not have anyone to “celebrate” this with. Women of today are not worth my time and effort. They are too materialistic and think too much of themselves.
Thay only have one thing to offer me and it ain’t worth all the pain and suffering. Where are the women who are true companions?
No Donna, you are not alone – I have always thought Valentines day was stupid once over the age of about 20. It is for children and young people who are trying to get a foot in the door. I was always mad when someone I was serious with especially my husband would do something for me on Valentines Day. It is a huge waste of money and rather insulting to know that they need to be told by the radio and TV to show affection. Suprise me in September.
Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Secretary’s Day, Mailman’s Day, Dog Groomer’s Day, Gay’s and Lesbian’s Day, and Valentine’s Day are all PHONEY Hallmark holidays created out of greed by greeting card companies and flower growers and candy companies and jewelry stores to bilk the masses out of their hard-earned money. And I don’t have to be “with someone” to enjoy my life everyday. LET’S BOYCOTT ALL THESE MADE-UP HOLIDAYS.
I would love to forget Valentines day. Again, it’s just plain silly when you think about it. But for some reason I cannot get my husband to forget it. Every year he insists on buying me $60 roses and taking me out to some overpriced restaurant. Last year it was roses, an hour at spa sydell and lunch at Fogo De Chao. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy/ed every valentines day and how special he made it for me. But I felt he overspent on all of them. He reminds me of a child when he eagerly hands me those $60 roses and waits for my expression. I just start thinking “Darn baby, we could have use this money for something special that we could both enjoy together”.
It’s too bad V-day has been reduced to a day that men have to impress women. Aside from a very young crowd or perhaps the very early stages of dating, shouldn’t it be reciprocal if it’s going to be observed? Years ago, a single girlfriend and I got together for dinner on V-day. I arrived early so I killed some time in a retail store just down from the restaurant. I watched a man VISIBLY AGONIZE over what would be the “perfect” gift. It made my heart ache and I promised myself that I would never do that to a man. Women – you’ll do your man a huge favor and possibly even make your relationship stronger, if you either let him off the hook completely or set him up to win with you in a manner that is attainable for him. I’m married now and my husband and I discuss what, if anything, WE want to do for V-day. This year we are taking each other (yes, we are splitting the cost) to Cirque du Soleil. We were purchasing tickets anyway so it wasn’t an additional expense. We chose V-day because we thought it would be fun and it worked with his travel schedule.
Shelley’s husband, you should do something special this upcoming weekend instead of Valentine’s Day, just to mess with her head. It probably won’t work seeing as how she might be reading this though. Good luck either way my friend, she sounds like a hand full. P.S. You might not want to make a specific resopnse to me.
Music died when Kurt Cobain died back in April of 1994. And current MTV programming disgusts me and makes me wanna put a bullet through my head as well.
This crap never ceases to amaze me. Kay Jewelers starts their commercials before Thanksgiving and runs them until Easter saying we men are asses if we don’t get her diamonds for Christmas, Valentine’s, etc. To hell with them and Hallmark.
It died in 1983. That was when rock and roll started adding too many synthesizers. Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon…heck, even Van Halen added them the next year.
When American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson went to #1. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show. But, when we were young we weren’t about to go run out and buy any albums force-fed to us from the producers of “Star Search”.
The music dies in the 70’s. What happened??? We need more like The Eagles, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Rolling Stones, The Who. Give me Rock & Roll!!
When the “heavy metal” era began, it brought the music to its knees. MTV changed the focus from the lyris/music to the video. Rap and hip hop killed it off completely
It never died. There’s always good new music being made. It’s that much of it is not on pop radio. When is the last time you heard Willie Nelson on the radio? Or Bob Dylan? Both are still making great new music. However, their new stuff is rarely played on terrestrial radio.
Men or women, what’s the big deal? If your significant other considers this a special day, what does it hurt to use this day (in addition to others) to meet her expectations for this day and show her how much you love her? As for you, This Guy, it wouldn’t mess with my head if my husband uses this weekend to do something special, but it might mess with his when he has trouble coming up with something special two weekends in a row.
Racist because they don’t like Rap? Get a life. You are paranoid. I don’t like various types of music, and rap is one. So is acid rock, and a good bit of Country. If I don’t like Country Music, what does that mean? If I don’t like classical what does that mean? Besides, what color is Eminem? Vanilla Ice? You don’t own it, and yes, there some white people that like Rap. Some don’t – just like any other type of music…..
Hip Hop died when 2pac and Biggie got killed(96-97). Music in General is still very much alive which is why you have a lot of “hybrid” music and sub-genres. “Singing rappers/Rap and Rock Mashups”. The traditional jazz artist has faded some while “Neo-Soul” is a mixture of jazz and r & b and soul music.
Bottom line music still lives…but in different forms.
after 1989. that was the last year of good music. 1990 to the present has no substance and just absolutely horriable. the 90s was nothing but sampling and make overs. Rap music steals from R&B and Rock and Roll. I have heard many rap songs sample from rock and rolls songs like “True” Sailing, as well as soul hits like ..Good Times, countless James brown beats, even John Legend got a grammy Stealing the music from Stormy to create Save Love which a direct rip off.
I suspect that if each commenter above did a little self-examination, you would find that whatever the death event specified, it happened when you were between 30 and 35. Like most 55 year olds, I have a couple of hundred “records” and CDs recorded before 1985 and a couple of dozen recorded since then. While I would like to think that the music of my youth was the best ever (it was!), I fear that everyone feels that way and you’ll never win the argument.
Music never died for me. There are lots of indie musicians out there that puts ‘pop’ music to shame. Mainstream music died in the mid 90’s for me. Rap became angry obscenity laced garbage. Rock became this Cobain-ish emo garbage. Country sold its soul to image. Rave music started playing in more clubs. Pop/R&B became so darned canned that a hamster’s flatulence sounded better.
Music, to me, died when the classifications changed. They call these new artists r&b, they aren’t r&b!! R&B was signified by supreme vocal talent, i.e. Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, James Ingram, Gladys Knight, etc..and i’m not hatin’ on these new cats, Omarion, Chris Brown, etc., but they ARE NOT r&b but they couldn’t hold a candle to any of the real singers from back then!! The lyrics of the song were another factor, it’s why they are all sampling the music from back then, because the lyrics had substance and are timeless.
It died for me with the beginning of rock ‘n roll, and that death accelerated with the introduction of songs that glorified immorality and profane lifestyles. It died a second death with senseless, violent rap music. Another factor that has accelerated my extreme dislike for today’s music is evident everytime an “artist sings” (butchers) our beloved national anthem at public events.
Rock is not dead. It is getting better and better. Linkin Park, Seether, Flyleaf, 10 Years, Bullet for my Valentine, AFI, Nightwish….
The music of today makes me feel younger. Although I grew up in the 70s and 80s, listening to that music makes me feel old. Move on!!! Adapt!!! You might feel younger too.
OffMyLawn, I’m with you. Music has never been more alive for me. Wake up people. Go find it for yourself. Don’t be spoon fed by MTV, top 40 radio, or whatever else on tv. There are SO many outlets for new music since the advent of the internet. You just have to look for it. Go buy an independent music rag and find something new. Heck, for Atlantans, we have a vibrant music scene right in our own backyard that is currently producing fantastic music. Everything from rock to hip hip to singer/songwriter fare to country. I’m 34 and I hope I never lose the urge to discover new artists.
In retrospect, the day Emerson, Lake, and Palmer posed on the beach marked the end of the greatest era of music in history: classic progressive rock. ELP, King Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and many others produced some of the most meaningful, existential, and altogether beautiful pieces of music that have ever been created.
Music cried when Buddy died, but the nails were put in the coffin on 12/8/80 when John was murdered, then the nails were hammered in and the coffin put in the ground when George joined John. The good world will end when Paul is lost.
At least a piece of it died on December 10, 1967, in a field outside Madison, Wis., when Georgia’s native son Otis Redding died in a plane crash. Otis was not as influential — yet — as Buddy Holly, but he was just venturing outside of deep soul into new territory. He had just recorded Dock of the Bay, his only No. 1 hit, which was released after he died. He had much great work ahead of him, but we’ll never know what might have been.
Happy Birthday Hank! I grew up watching you and many other baseball legends play at Fulton County Stadium. You will always be one of THE best baseball players of all time! If we could only go back in time – I miss watching you play the wonderful game of baseball.
HANK; HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I’VE BEEN A HUGE FAN SINCE YOUR MILWAUKEE BRAVE DAYS. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CLASS ACT. WISH YOU THE BEST TODAY. THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DONE AND WHAT YOU TAUGHT EVERYONE. BEST WISHES
I’ve been a fan of yours for 37 years now (from a seven year old to a forty four year old). Of all of the great athletes that I’ve been blessed to have seen perform in every major and college sport, you are my favorite. You are the athlete par excellence and you will always be the True Home Run King in my heart and the hearts of millions of baseball fans everywhere. I love you Hank and may God bless you and your wife with a great life going forward.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Aaron! You are the greatest to ever play the game and an even better human being. Unfortunately, your humility and graciousness has prevented you from receiving all the credit you deserve. However, your standard of how to play the game may be a greater legacy. Thank You for being you!
Hank, you’ve always been one of my heros. You played when baseball was a REAL sport, not like what it is today. Whenever I think of baseball, I think of you first. There have been very few like you in the past decades – the men that played for the sake of the sport. You’re the greatest!!
Hank, Best wishes to you and your Loved ones on this Special Day,Your day!! I followed your Career as a youngster in Massachusetts as you set High Standards for Yourself and Baseball. Thank you for all the Special Moments you gave us all as Fans of the Great Game!! Happiest of Birthdays !! Best Regards, Tom Gordon
Happy Birthday to one of my first heroes! As a little girl growing up in the south, I’m thankful that I wasn’t exposed to very much racism. Reading how you were treated in your early professional days…and how you reacted to it…ensured my lack of prejudice would be permanent. Thinking of it still brings tears to my eyes. But thinking of all the joy you brought me makes my smile even brighter, tho’ it could never be as bright as yours! Blessings to you always and in all ways.
Hank,
It’s an honor to share my birthday with you. You epitomize the type of athlete I want my 9 year old son to be. I am happy he calls you his favorite baseball player. Hope your birthday is as happy as mine!
Happy Birthday Mr. Aaron. You will always be the home run king. I remember watching you at Ebbets Field when I was younger and you were always a great natural hitter.
Many more Birthdays.
Happy Birthday Hank! Hope you have many more! I only got to see you play once in ‘66. I think it was the 3rd game ever played at Fulton county stadium.
Youll always be the homerun king in my eyes. You played the game the way it was meant to be played. Your perserverance should be an inspiration for all.
Now go help Frank Wren build another championship! Have a piece of cake for me.
Henry, I am a huge Cub fan but you were always one of my favorites. What a delight it was to watch you and Ernie on the field at the same time. Thank you for coming to the unveiling of Ernie’s statue at Wrigley Field (long overdue). You made a great occasion that much more special. Thank you for representing what is right about this great game. Very sincerely, David Muschler
Thanks, Hank. I named my older son after you! I followed you since 1957 when I was six, and there are thousands more who were affected by your quiet dignity and your consistent excellence.
Hank, I’m not old enough to remember you playing, but growing up in ATL I’ve long been fascinated by your career and life, I remember reading books about you in the library in grade school, even did a book report on you. I hope to one day have the pleasure of meeting and talking with you. You’ve always been one of the true “good guys” in sport. Have a happy birthday, and a good many more.
Dear Mr. Aaron,
Happy Birthday Home Run King. You are the greatest player in my book. How important it was to sit on the floor with my Dad and check the line score for your numbers of the night before (much more important than the fate of the game). “What did Henry do last night?” Thank the Lord I was there for 715 with my childhood friend Bob (and his Mom). You played the game so easily like it was a game, and of course your loping trot we got to see so often with the continual homers. You were and are such a gentleman. I am always proud to say you are my favorite player!
I wish you many many more happy birthdays with your family and friends,
Danny
I can remember my Dad taking me to the Fulton County Stadium in 1967. It was one of the greatest moments of my life to watch Legends play ball. Your cards were cherished by young collectors in the 60’s. Thanks Mr. Aaron for the many memories and Happy Birthday. May God Bless you and your Family.
If you are in time group 3 or higher, be prepared to walk more than run. Running with that many people tends to resemble a hazardous obstacle course rather than a road race. Also because of the human density it with be significantly hotter than the posted temp because of all those bodies…drink that water!
Words of encouragement for Michael Phelps by Peter Tosh!
Legalize It & I will advertise it! Because it is not a drug anyway! Because its just like when you go to the grocery store to buy some vegetables. Its gifted from God but they don’t sell it at the store. They don’t want us to stay focused. But they use it.
Train ahead of time and be polite to those who are more experienced than you. Please keep to the right, if you are slower. If you are new to running, hydrate at every water station. Try not to throw down water bottles in a way that trip other runners. Most of all – have fun. The Peachtree is not a “serious” race unless you are in group 1 or 2.
Hi Hank – I work with Yvonne Kennedy-Harris and she was telling me about your great party that her parents attended. I do remember when you played for the Braves although by brother was the one who went to the games with our dad. Thank you for all the great baseball momments. Always a fan…
I was a Girl Scout, and we sold our own. Of course our parents, family and friends bought a box or two, but basically, we went out door to door and did our own selling. If you do the selling for the child, what are you teaching them? That someone else will always pick up the slack for them? As an adult, no one is going to do that for them. If the child doesn’t do the selling themselves, they learn nothing.
I have no problem with Girl Scout Cookies. The money goes to a good cause. Plus, they’re cheap. They cost $3.50. When someone presents you with a GS order form, buy a box. It’s only $3.50. Don’t tell then you bought 12 boxes from the girl across the street or that your niece/grandaughter is a Girl Scout. Buy a box. It’s $3.50. Instead of buying 12 boxes from the first person who asks and then telling everyone else “I just bought 12 boxes from Janie” you buy a box or two from everyone who asks.
No, I do not have a daughter selling cookies. It’s a good cause.
I buy them and then just open the box and leave them in our break room. Too bad girl scouts don’t sell anything healthy. I’d buy lots of Girl Scout fresh Produce or something.
Well I LOVE girl scout cookies so I don’t mind when adults ask me to buy a box. However I do understand that by doing that the CHILD learns NOTHING. Now if the child is selling and the parent is also selling then I see no problem.
I have no problems with parents selling them at work..Yes, the kids still need to know that they have to sell also, but with all of the kooks out there, kids can’t go door to door selling like I used to..
Although we help with friends and/or relatives not in town, we encourge our daughter to sell the cookies hereself. This teaches responsibility and accountability for your sales.
The music died when “fans”/snobs/scholars began proclaiming it so. But true music fans know the music will never die, no genre can claim superiority over another, and nothing can measure it’s value.
By the way, hip-hop’s origins and evolution show and have proven it’s value to music. To pooh-pooh it is to show how out of touch and close-minded you are. (That’s also what draws young people to it.)
I personally love Girl Scout cookies and will buy a box or two from children who are selling them. However, I think it is ridiculous for the parents to sell them. What sort of lesson does the child learn? Either the child learns nothing, or he/she learns that they don’t have to be responsible for anything because the parent will pick up the slack.
Depends on how its done. One of the dad’s here brought the order form in and just left it on the table in the break room for anyone interested. I have no problem with that approach. However, going cube to cube pestering people I would consider inappropriate.
My boss used to just bring the order sheet in and leave it on a table and if anyone wanted some they could sign up. No pressure and it was a nice way to get cookies if you didn’t otherwise know anyone.
I don’t have a problem with Girl Scout cookies at work. I look forward to them each year. I would rather help my kids sell them than have my kids go door to door. Door to Door selling could be dangerous for kids in this day and age.
I will buy plenty of boxes as long as the GIRL SCOUT is the one doing the selling. I DO NOT buy from adults. The whole point of the fundraiser is that the girls learn civic responsiblity. What do they learn when their parents do it for them? It’s not safe to send them out on their own: I hear that. Then staff a booth outside a local store. Call your neighbors. Just don’t expect me to coddle your kid because you think they should reap the reward without the work.
I have my daughter write the note in her own words for selling cookies at the office. I then post it on the company board or send it out as an email. My daughter also does selling to the neighbors we know. Like so many things with kids it becomes a huge contest as in order to receive a patch they have to sell 125 boxes. THe next piece of crap they have to sell 175 boxes! Of course the top prize is an Ipod which all the little girls want but its well over 275 boxes! Does that not give incentive for parents to push selling cookies at work so they can get a prize? I would rather they not give them anything like the older days and they earn a patch for selling any amount of cookies.
I think it is time for the Girl Scouts get with the times. Instead of having them stand outside Lowes to sell cookies they need to be taking orders and have them shipped to the house. That way the girls will have to learn there selling skills to help them later in life.
Having your parents bring the form to work doesn’t mean the girls aren’t seelling too. I brought the order form in and left in in the break room with a note of who it was for and what we were doing with the money. That way no one felt pressured to buy, only if they wanted to. My daughter herself sold more boxes than I did bringing the form to work. We don’t live in subdivision and going door to door these days isn’t all that safe. They by rule MUST have an adult with them anyway so really we are selling with them no matter how you look at it. Plus, Girl Scouts now do booth sales at local businesses and that is when the girls really get to learn. The have to sell them, collect the money etc.
GS cookies are cheap and really tasty. Selling cookies for your child is fine as long as the child comes in first to make the initial hawk. Have her go around asking folks to pleeeeeeeeease buy cookies, then they can just see Mom or Dad to fill the order. I doubt this is going to have any everlasting negative effects on the child.
We are not allowed so sell stuff here at work. There is no pressure to buy anything from anyone. If you buy from one co-worker’s kid, you have to do it for everyone else’s kid. So we just have a policy.
I despise people who attempt to sell Girl Scout cookies at work. In fact, we successfully lobbied management to ban the practice. We’re bombarded constantly with requests for us to buy products and services – can’t we get a bit of relief from that while we’re at work?
Juliane – Actually troops can elect to do “no prize” selling and actually get more money per box by doing it this way. I agree with you which is why next year, that is what my troop is doing.
We have an employee who faithfully every year walks her daughter around the office, to everyone’s desk or office dressed in her Girl Scouts uniform asking you to buy cookies. Of course, no one can tell the little girl no. It also takes away from other employees who are trying to sell cookies for their daughters. I think that is way too much pressure to get someone to buy Girl Scout cookies. It’s gotten to the point where some people run and hide when they see her coming down the hall.
I sell for my daughter at work and I am a very popular man when that time rolls around. The people who buy from me at work know they are helping not only my daughter, but her entire troop earn money for activities for the year. I’m confident in my parenting skills and I believe the message my daughter gets from this is that daddy is there to help and support her as she tries to reach her goals. She still sells door to door and to family, i’m just there to boost sales so that everyone benefits.
I don’t have kids, but I wouldn’t take that into the workplace. I honestly can’t stand whenever a coworker comes to me selling something for their child. I have enough bills and don’t have time for that nonsense.
I used to buy from parents at work, but stopped buying anything, or selling anything a couple of years ago. I have a 9 year old daughter and it is ridiculous the number of fundraisers that go on all year long between daycare, school and other activities. As some of the prior people posted, it does not teach a child anything if the parent does all of the work – I especially am opposed to the “incentives”(junk prizes) to sell more – that just leads to kids trying to get their parents to sell more. I will buy GS cookies from kids who actually sell them. I DO NOT do the “sally foster” fundraisers – I write a check to the PTA for $50.00 – which is the same as selling $100.00 worth of stuff people don’t want. I DO allow my daughter to participate in “booster runs” where SHE finds people to sponsor her and they pay for every lap she runs – because she is doing the work.
“The whole point of the fundraiser is that the girls learn civic responsiblity.”
Really? The whole point is not to teach “civic responsibility”. Yes, that’s part of it but the other part is to raise money SO THEY CAN DO CIVIC projects. Part of our money this year is going to help our local food pantry which is in major need of help. Our girls know this and sell some on their own and some at the parent’s work. Selling cookies doesn’t teach them civic responsibility..going to nursing homes..working at food pantries…cleaning up the local park…helping fellow Girl Scouts in need…is what teaches them this.
In another place and time I was a Girl Scout and my Mom was the Cookie Drive Chairman. We sold door to door in our small town. I would be afraid for my daughter to go out door to door in a metropolitan area to sell the cookies. There are too many dangerous people out there that we are not aware of that could hurt our children. I am personally pleased to see parents at least attempting to be involved. I know the scout troops hold a training to assist these girls in knowing how to sell the cookies and all of them, I am sure do their part. The parents are just helping out. I just placed an order for my Trefoils and Thin Mints with a co-worker last week. Can’t wait for the delivery!
Poetic…My daughter went door to door in her uniform at my husband’s high school one afternoon. It was amazing how many she sold that way. She loved it!
When my niece was in the Girl Socuts (2007 & 2008) my boss was nice enough to let me put the sign up sheet in the break room. Ditto for her Mother and that’s as far as either of us cared to go. I’ve work places where people hawked things for their kids to the point that bordered on stalking.
Besides, having parents and other family members sell the cookies (or whatever else) at work teaches the child absolutely nothing other than they can get the benefits with out doing the work.
Clay: It’s ridiculous to buy a box or two from EVERYone who asks. We’re in a recession & no, I don’t like feeling pressed at work about it. I think a person should be allowed to put up a flyer on the bulletin board stating who is selling & IF I want them, I know who to go to.
It’s not rude to tell someone I have bought too many already. There is no obligation. $3.50 is a lot of money for their small box that gets smaller every year. Do you spend $3.50 on a box at the grocery store? I don’t. People have had to cut their spending, including their grocery bill.
I might support with one box from someone I know, but don’t tell me I’m wrong for not buying from everybody and yes, I do think it’s wrong to have the boss press me. That’s a conflict of interest especially since when my kid sells stuff for their SCHOOL, they don’t buy! You’re not going to tell me Girl Scouts is more important than our kids schools.
the work selling wouldn’t be so bad in a small office with one or two parents, but I work in an office with over 100 women at least half of which have children or grand children they solicit for – can you imagine if we all brought our children in for the “personal” touch? Or if you had 50 fundraisers posted on a board somewhere? it’s just not conducive to the work environment.
As for the kids selling door to door? If an adult goes with them there isn’t a risk – and if the neighborhood isn’t a good one – go to another one – people do it every year for halloween!
Parents should not sell cookies for their girscout (s). What about the girlscouts who really are working hard to sell for the incentives. It is totally unfair to the Girlscout who is truly working hard on Saturday mornings at the grocery store – so to just give the order sheet to the parent to take to work and spread around to co-workers is simply not right!
Susan: Excellent comment! It gets tiring & people eventually run the other way when they see you coming since most people have kids and in my case, I have 3 so imagine my 3 and every other persons kid having their parent sell at work. It’s getting out of hand.
I personally do not do fundraisers anymore since on average my kids school sends home at least 8 a year (8 x 3 = 24). Imagine 24 times a year in 10 months begging people to buy?!?!?
Now for the economic part of it. This is in addition to the school asking for money, $5.00 movies for each child to raise money at school, smoothies $2.00 each, supply extra school supplies, sanitizer, tissue, $15.00 field trips for first grade, ***this is a doozy, high school $20 field trip & $10 for gas for the SCHOOL bus (listed on the permission slip) & I pay taxes***
My kids know, straight in the house and drop the fundraiser materials in the trash (oh, recycling bin, there. They’ve given back). I’ve told the teachers not to send it but they try anyway.
There is no problem as no pressure is applied. The people in our office leave sheets in the break room and send out an inter office e-mail that the product is available, the cost, and the purpose. Some things like Girl Scout cookies, popcorn, Sally Foster, candles, barbecue tickets and candy bars sell well. Some of the overpriced junk doesn’t. I would much rather it be done that way then to deal with a child coming to my door or coming around the office or being “assaulted” by children selling in front of Walmart or Shriners and others disrupting traffic with their buckets or people calling me at night on the telephone. A lot of people bought Girl Scout cookies through me when my daughter was that age. The year after she finished Girl Scouts, nobody sold the cookies in our office. We had a lot of upset employees that year because they weren’t sold.
Kathy, I hate when people bring girl scout cookies to work and church its just inappropriate. Most of us feel pressured to support a practice that really should be intiated by the young people the practice was set up to nurture. If the workplace would set a policy it may get us all off the hook for the next girl scount cycle.
I was approached at work, but in a unique way. The Girl Scout herself sent me an email asking me to buy. She also offered the option, if I were concerned about health, of buying a box and donating it to a local children’s hospital. She was given a select few email addresses of her father’s coworkers that he felt would be receptive.
I was compelled by her maturity and kind heart and was moved to buy cookies. Knowing this little girl, this was all her idea. In this way I didn’t mind being solicited. If he had come, I probably would have said no, just because I hate when people push products for their kids.
I don’t think parents should bring order forms to work for people to buy cookies or anything else. This does cause problems for co-workers. There have been several instances when someone brings an order form for their child and then the person gets mad if people don’t want to buy what they are selling. An office or ‘workplace’ is supposed to be professional, not a personal place. I have had co-works and even my boss try to hawk their childern’s order sheets for different things at me, and of course, I felt pressured to buy something, even though I don’t make as much as most of them. It dosen’t matter how expensive it is or what cause it is for, the workplace is not the place to seel your childerns ‘goodies.’
I’m single, no kids. I am constantly approached by co-workers to buy their kids’ holiday wrapping, candles, cookies and other crap. Two weeks ago I was approached by no less than FOUR different coworkers telling me that I had to buy cookies. I said that I appreciated the offer but I’d pass. One of them said I was being cheap and should be supporting them. I told them that if they wanted to support my fund-raising for buying a cute pair of boots that I saw at Filene’s that I’d be happy to reciprocate.
I did the fund-raising when I was a kid – but I did it myself – my parents didn’t try to strong arm people to buy their kids stuff.
Guess what? I’m in sales for a career. And I’m the top rep in the office. And my mom doesn’t close my deals for me either.
Girls Scouts are supposed to be the ones selling the cookies. Sometimes there are challenges if you don’t know your neighbors, live in a small neighborhood, or have too many girl scouts in the area beating you to the sale.
I have my daughter write out what she would say if she was in front of someone and I bring that to work. I’ve copied it and posted it in common areas and will tape up the order form in my office. There is no pressue but my co-workers have flocked to sign up for the cookies they want. This has worked well for us for two years and no one in the office has ever said they felt pressured – in fact, some people get upset that they forgot to order when the deadline was over so I always buy a few extra boxes and just sell them those.
Ultimately the sales of girl scout cookies should be part of the scouting process and the responsibility of the girl not the parent pushing it on co-workers. And people can always politely refuse – no one is saying buy Thin Mints or you’re fired!
I hate it when people bring their children’s fundraisers to work. That includes Girl Scout Cookies. I have 2 nieces who sell cookies, and several friends’ w/daughters who sell cookies…I buy from them. I’m solicited at home for the boy scouts, and other relatives’ school fund raisers. I usually give a check to the family members…but SHEESH…I’m at work, let me work.
I don’t “socialize” with my co-workers so much, we don’t get a lot of down time to chit-chat much less a break room…but let a fundraiser get going & the line forms at my office door. I don’t interrupt your workday w/my children’s fundraisers, your son’s new job cold calling
for ____________ product …please do the same for me. And those emails…don’t send them. I get them from people in my dept at different physical locations I wouldn’t recognize on the street.
I know I’m a Scrooge, but most companies are cracking down on productivity & I’m focusing on keeping my job…not getting your child an iPod for selling ______# of boxes of cookies.
I used to be a Girl Scout. We went door to door (I guess it was safe in the ’80s??), manned booths outside of grocery stores (be careful these days you can get in trouble, i.e. the Chick-fil-a fiasco!) AND our parents sold them at work. The idea is NOT about teaching salesmanship. The whole point is to raise money for the Girl Scouts. The are NOT as well funded as the Boy Scouts and the money earned from selling cookies is their main source of revenue.
If you have time to post comments here then you have time to simply say “No, Thank you.”
The price of cookies is set by the local council. Unfortunately you can get price differences with people selling in the same area. I know my neice was a girl scout.
I really do not care if my co-workers want to sell the cookies at work. The problem for me is saying “no” and have to work with the person on a daily basic. Some people are offend by the word no and we work togther.
Girl Scouts hold booth sells and depending on their community sell door to door. My question would be what is the difference when they knock on your door versus the parent placing the form in a location where you voluntarily purchase? Yes, the goal is to teach the Scout responsibility, civic and personal but these attitudes here teach the other end of the spectrum. The only way I can purchase cookies are through these means because for years I did not know Scouts personally so I am neither offended or bothered. Here is an example: I as a Scout only know my neighborhood so although there are 8 different ones near me the goal set for my troop may be 300 boxes. Within those 8 if I cannot reach the goal which I am determined to do as a Scout I will push my parents to go further. Pulling police reports before my mom takes me is an option but how feasible. What happened to plain old fashioned giving to support a cause? These girls will benefit from the sales by the activities their troops participate in. This alone will teach them more valuable lessons than the rude, inconsiderate and possibly dangerous people they face going door to door. Try going with a troop door to door before you blog here, you will be suprised at what people do to children even with an adult present. When most of you here were younger the world was a safer and nicer place, read the front page of the AJC today it has definitely changed. Yes, tact and respect should be used by the parents and their approach at selling may offend some and most work places have policies about solicitation. I myself eagerly awaited any co-worker with a Girl Scout form because unless I’m out and about when the did booth sells I was not able able to purchase any. So I take no offense.
I would rather purchase cookies from a co-worker in support of their family enterprises, than some random kid parked out in front of the Wal-Mart. Times have changed, going door-to-door is not a realistic option. As for saying “no” to a co-worker, it is no different than saying “no” to lunch or chipping in for a co-workers birthday cake. If you are unable to say “no” than that is an individuals assertiveness issue.
I don’t understand how anyone is pressured into buying girl scout cookies. If you don’t want them then say no. I have to pass many girls during this season to say no because I have purchased many boxes of the cookies and frankly can’t help all the troops. I first look to buy cookies from someone that I know and if no one is selling, then I will purchase from the 1st group that I get to. If I have already purchased my limit, then I will not purchase more. I wish they were sold year round. I love the thin mints and freeze them. My husband just ate the last box a couple of weeks ago. I’ve ordered more for this year. Boy scouts do sell popcorn. Maybe its just individual troops, I don’t know. My dad was a leader and I don’t remember them selling products only tickets to the scout show.
I don’t live in an area with kids, especially Girl Scouts, anywhere near me. So I appreciate the couple of parents who bring in the order forms, since I love Girl Scout cookies. As others have said, though, pushing them would be innappropriate. They simply bring them in and make the order form available to anyone who wants one.
I was a girl scout during the 80’s and back then it was safer to go door to door to sell. We always sold on our own with the occasional parent’s friend buying cookies. But in today’s world, kids can’t go door to door. Too many psychos out there. I am always happy to see tables of scouts outside of stores. At least then they are doing the work themselves. I don’t think parents should hound their co-workers to buy but should say “hey, if anyone wants cookies, let me know!”. You all know you want those cookies!!!
A few things:
1. Boy Scouts sell popcorn every fall which is a major part of their fundraising. Second, this very morning I went to a fundraising meeting for boy scouts where I was given a pre-approved list of donors to call and ask for their annual contribution.
2. I hear you about not wanting to be harassed by co-workers’ children, but essentially, what it all comes down to is that particularly in the office you should make a concious effort not to put your feet in your mouth about how you can’t stand all these fundraisers. With your feet in your mouth you don’t have a leg to stand on. If you don’t want it, kindly say no and get over it.
Girl Scouts are now discouraged from going door-to-door, for safety issues. At least Juniors on down, have been told not to do so by the council. I am not sure of Cadet and above. They are specifically told to sell to people that they know. I work in a small office where everybody knows my daughter. So, yes, I sell cookies her as well as my boss for her daughter. It has never been a problem. People from other offices in the building come around every year asking if I am taking orders yet. Even people from the building management office purchases them. My daughter does call family members and close family friends as well as she asks teachers at her school to purchase them.
If you try to peddle **ANYTHING** in your work environment, where you have a “captive” audience who are merely trying to earn a decent living for themselves without being panhandled, you are sub-human slime and belong in the Great Lake of Fire.
Please take your own lives if you engage in such behavior.
I’m fine with it when the order form is left in a common area but when the President of our company (over 1,000 people & publicly traded so we’re not some mom & pop shop) brought her kid into work & walked around introducing her daughter to the employees & pushing the Girlscout cookies, I thought that tasteless….but of course, I bought some.
OMG. I used to send my kid door to door every year with the Sally Foster fundraisers and GS cookies. The kids in our ‘hood used to race each other up and down the street to see who could get the most sales. They loved it, and it was safe. See we knew ALL our neighbors and we had a ton of kids in the neighborhood. It was small, so we all knew each other.
We also used to let them play outside, and even ride bikes. We didn’t keep them inside hooked up to the tv because there are bad people out there.
There is not a creep or a pervert behind every door. You people are raising paranoid kids.
My wife has a co-worker that goes all over the department selling and delivering the cookies every year. Disappears for hour’s not knowing where she is or what she is doing. Ignoring her job and gets paid for doing it! It is totally wrong for employees to sell while working. If she worked for me she would be FIRED. I can understand doing it after hours but to ignore you work duties, it is wrong.
I am so thankful that I work in an office wwith people who are not bitter! In this day and age, I cannot beleive people would be offended by a box of cookies! Where in the hell do you people work???? Maybe it would be a better place if you weren’t there! Unless you work envolves manual labor, you probably don’t work hard anyway, Lazy Americans! BTW, manual labor does not involve loading the printer with more paper!
I see nothing wrong with sending an email to your own department, or group of colleages that you deal with on a regular basis saying “If anyone’s interested, I’ve got an order form for Girl Scout cookies”. There is no pressure in that. If someone is interested, they let you know, otherwise that’s the end of it. Many times I wanted to buy Girl Scout cookies but didn’t know who was selling them.
As for Carmichael’s question about Boy Scouts, they DO sell items. My son is in Cub Scouts, and they do a popcorn fundraiser every fall.
I have no problem with anyone selling anything in my office. If I want it I will buy it and if I don’t I won’t. It doesn’t bother me who is selling it, co-worker, supervisor, pushy or not pushy,etc. I typically buy the stuff to be nice anyway, I don’t have kids now, but plan to one day and hope other people will be as kind to buy stuff from my child. One lady in my office had a great idea, when the orders came in she had her child sit down and write each person who bough cookies a short thank you note! I thought that was a wonderful idea!
Toni: Thanks for contributing. What I said was don’t buy 12 boxes from the first person who asks and then tell everyone else you can’t buy from them because you just ordered 12 boxes from someone else. Order 1 or 2 boxes from everyone who asks and make several girls happy instead of just one.
To all the other poor, miserable scrooges: lighten up. They’re Girl Scouts selling Girl Scout cookies. They’re $3.50 a box. You get a yummy treat in return. You support programs that do good things for young girls. It’s not crap wrapping paper.
I love Girl Scout Cookies and the “cause” and buy them every year. I will buy just about anything that children are selling when they come to my door. However, I think it’s inconsiderate of parents to sell at the office. Girl Scout Cookies, Wrapping Paper, Magazines. I realize this is all for a good cause, but it needs to be done by the children. I especially don’t like being approached by a parent. It’s one thing to leave the form in the break room…it’s an entirely different thing to come to my office and ask me to buy something.
There is nothing wrong with a parent(s) assisting in selling the cookies. My dad worked at my Elementary school, so when I went to Middle and High School he would take my fundraiser books to his job and sell a lot of items for me. I LOVE THIN MINTS!!!!
GS cookies, youth sports candy bars, raffles, magazine subscriptions, wrapping paper, candles, you name it! If it smells like a fund raiser it has made the rounds at my work. I started telling people “I’m sorry but solicitation has gotten out of control at this work site. I can’t help you.” Now they leave me alone. Good riddance!
It’s okay to sell cookies at the office but never to solicit. Send out and e-mail letting people know you are hawking wares for your precious one or put the order forms on display, but that’s as far as it should go. If you feel you have to ask direct: DON’T!!!!!!!!!! It starts with Girl Socut cookies and them there are the magazine subscriptions, wrapping paper, candy, popcorn, cookie dough & pizza kits, books, etc.
Every year my daughter sells @ 300 boxes door to door and to relatives. Some people even order a year in advance or have a standard order each year. When she is done, I buy whatever amount of boxes she needs to get to the next level. Then I leave them in the break room here at work. That way, I never feel pressure to buy anything from anyone else at work. You could go broke just buying one item from everybody. After the first time doing this, nobody asks me to support their fund raiser anymore and several people have begun leaving other fund raiser items in the break room for everyone. It works out pretty well.
I sell GS cookies at work for my daughter. But, I never go to people and ask if they want to buy. I put the order form out on a cabinet at my desk and I put up a sign to let people know that they are available for ordering. I sell around 50 – 60 boxes this way. As for doing all of the work, my daughter still goes around the neighborhood (with Mom in tow) and at church and asks people if they would like to buy any. Every package that she sells is that much less that I have to pay out of my pocket for her to participate in Girl Scouts.
I only buy cookies – or anything else involving fundraisers – from people who bought stuff from me when my daughters were playing on travel softball teams and we had fundraisers. If they didn’t buy anything from me, I don’t feel I should be expected to buy from them.
I buy enough Girl Scout cookies to store the extra boxes in the freezer, otherwise they would be gone the first week. Popcorn unfortunately doesn’t freeze well, otherwise I would buy a trunkful of the microwave popcorn. My sons were in boy scouts (Eagle Scout), but unfortunately no girl scouts.
Everyone loves Girl Scout cookies. Usually you don’t even have to push them in the work place. If people find out your child is selling them, they come flocking to you.
What lesson is learned for the scout when the parents are hauling the load in cookie sales? In the work place, parents shouldn’t go around strong arming their peers to push cookies. Why not just put a sign-up sheet in a break room and leave it up to each individual to participate out of want and not guilt.
any child who knocks on my door to sell anything from Xmas paper to band candy to Girl Scout cookies I will always buy from…any parent who sends me an email and wants to know…”how many boxes can i put you down for…gets deleted- literally and otherwise…
August, 1977, when Elvis died. I was in Europe at the time, and felt like the world had just ended. Very homesick for America when the news came on the TV. Nobody before or since has ever been able to sing like the King. If there were any justice in life, he wouldn’t have died so prematurely.
If I rememeber correctly, Girs Scouts the organization does not allow parents to do the selling for the girls. They do require that parents GO with the child under a certain age. Then, isnt it against most company policies to sell things at work? I love the cookies too, but it isnt very fair to the poor girls that follow the rules and dont have mom/dad do the selling for them. There is usually some sort of a reward to the girl that sells the most. So if that is the case, the parents are teaching that breaking the rules and essentially cheating is ok.
I am an Girl Scout cookie office selling offender.
My niece is a Girl Scout and I am proud to assist her at cookie season. But, I, under no circumstances barge people at my office with solicitations to purchase cookies.
I send out an e-mail to select co-workers in my office that if they have no other relatives, friends or co-workers with children that are selling girl scout cookies and if they would like to purchase girl scout cookies that my niece is a girl scout and I am taking orders for her.
No mass e-mails, no office to office hawking. I don’t even post a sign-up sheet in the break room. I really don’t care if I sell one box to my coworkers and am not offended when people decline. Besides, a lot of us don’t have girl scouts in our neighborhoods anymore. I get a lot of ‘I didn’t know you were selling girl scout cookies!’ comments when I bring them into work and I usually tell them that if they would like to order them next year to let me know and I’ll add them to my list. No harm, no foul.
The Girls Scouts of America is a great institution and I am happy to help them out.
As a former Girl Scout, Girl Scout Leader and parent of a Girl Scout for 12 years, I have no problem with parents selling at work. With so many families with dual incomes, there is often no one at home to sell to if girls go door-to-door. My co-workers depended on me for their annual Girl Scout cookie order and had no other way to buy Girl Scout cookies.
The Girl Scout troop and Girl Scout Council depend on the revenues from Girl Scout cookies to fund activities and programs. As such, I see no harm in helping supplement the girl’s totals with sales at the office. Whether the girl sells 50 boxes or 500 boxes, she will be learning sales, organization, and accounting skills. She will also learn to plan and set goals. Girl Scouts would not sell cookies just to make money. There are life skills that are learned in cookie selling. You don’t become proficient at all these skills as a 1st grader, but it’s learned over time with pertinent activities practiced during the cookie campaign.
One final note: Cookie sales like Boy Scout popcorn or the school wrapping paper drive are not intended to be a “good” deal. A good part of the money is a donation to the organization sponsoring the sale. If you keep that in mind, you will be happy to “donate” to the cause when solicited by these young people. We used to teach the girls that “NO” doesn’t hurt, but you will never get a sale if you don’t ask.
Personally, I think fund raisers are getting out of hand, but GS is a long standing organization that funds itself through many channels including cookie sales. I provide a space in our break room for employees to post any fund raisers or for sale items. This removes the “door-to-door” waste of productivity, yet allows people to purchase items they want or support organizations they wish to support. We do not allow personal solicitations or emails promoting these items.
As a single man without children I can’t help but wonder, where are my fundraisers? I’d like the church I attend or the nonprofit I work for to have more money. Shoot, I’d like a new pair of Calvin Klein jeans, an Ed Hardy shirt, or some Hawks tickets… Whenever people shove those order forms in my face I tell them that I’d rather support their child by coming to one of their events. I just think that it says more in terms of support to show up for a football game, dance recital, play or contest than shelling out money for crap. Moreover, I just think it is absolutely wrong for parents to sell Girl Scout cookies for their daughters. What kind of message does that send? Mommy and Daddy will do your “work” for you and then you can take the credit. Instead of selling the cookies they are playing PS3, watching High School Musical 3, reading Twilight, or passing notes in school. My parents never took sign up sheets to work for the things I sold. I had to go door to door and (gasp) talk to people. My parents were willing to help me work on my sales pitch. But, it wasn’t their duty to sell for me. Truthfully, I’m glad they did it because it taught me the value of hard work, self reliance, and having a plan of action. Moreover, having to come up with a sales pitch forced me to think on my feet and helped me develop social skills. All these kids sitting at home getting fat in front of the boob tube are going to be running the country some day. It will be a travesty that people who didn’t care enough to sell cookies will be in positions of power. Also, all of these fundraiser items are incredibly overpriced. I have problems paying $4 a box for something that is not even worth half that because it’s being sold to me by someone in a green uniform. Would you pay $4 for a box of cookies at Publix? They have green vests too!! I remember when a box of Girl Scout cookies was $2; that was considered expensive for what you got. And, that was not that long ago; Oprah was on TV. I was a Boy Scout. I sold Scout show tickets door to door. No one murdered me; bullets did not whiz by my head. The only thing I feared was rejection by a few of the crotchety old men in my neighborhood and a few doors slammed shut. And, you know what… I survived. Rejection is part of life. What’s sad is that these kids are going to “grow up” and expect Mommie and Daddy’s “help” like they got when they sold cookies. So, when your kids need a loan for their first car/house, bail money, or want to bring your very own grandchildren to come live in your house with you, then you only have yourselves to blame.
I absolutely love GS cookies and I can’t wait every year for that special time to come around. Yes, I need to get a life, but until then I say let the moms sell at work. It’s better than that cheesy wrapping paper I have to sell for my kid. Also, I really like the caramel popcorn I get from the Boy Scouts. Forget a diet, I’m going full out in my support of the children!
I love Girl Scout cookies. I don’t have any girl scouts near me, so I welcome seeing the order form left in the break room at work. As long as I’m not pestered personally I’m fine with it. I understand some of the points people are making about the girls’ not learning anything, but things aren’t like they used to be, you may think you live in a safe suburb or area of town, but there are too many quacks out there for girls to go door to door at least unsupervised. You’d also be surprised if you had any idea the number of sex offenders living in your area. I don’t think any girl scouts totally rely on mom and dad pushing orders at work. Some attend my church and do very well selling them to the members at the appropriate time, people attending after school functions and sports activities.
Most Girl Scouts are nothing but spoiled brats with a very low IQ. I saw one of my college students with a box of Girl Scout cookies and confiscted them, tossed them into the garbage, and then made sure her grade was adjusted. Anyone I caught trying to sell these cookies I would report so they could be suspended.
I am an Eagle Scout on the Boy Scout side and I help out scouting financially every chance I get. Yes it is OK to sell the cookies at work. I own my company and I encourage it. Joshua…it must be awful to go through life with that kind of attitude. Just because your glass is half empty don’t get in the way of us folks whose glass is half full.
People that think it’s unsafe to go door to door to sell cookies have been watching too many episodes of “To catch a predator”. I don’t care how many kooks there are. Next you are going to hear arguements against playing outside and walking the dog. Does the newspaper guy or telephone man tremble in fear walking the streets in the ATL? Please!!
Children going door to door to sell things are not in danger if they follow common sense rules like don’t go into people’s houses and only sell during the daylight. It’s not that dangerous… This is America, the wealthiest country in the history of our world.
A child should not having trouble selling even in the most dangerous of neighborhoods even in the most dangerous neighborhoods. On the other hand, why can’t a parent supervise a child from a car on the street while she sells door to door. Then the child actually performs the activity themselves “as intended” and is not in harms way. I think that’s a nice way to spend a Saturday or Sunday afternoon for some of these parents. Most of these people don’t know that any Girl Scouts live around them because they are all laying on the couch at home getting fat eating cookies.
I totally support the Girl Scouts and friends whose daughters/nieces/granddaugthers etc are Girl Scouts – buy a few from each girl and freeze/give away/send to soldiers……
IT’S AMERICAN!!! Even our friends who have moved overseas love to receive them.
It is – at my office – though considered taboo to solict so it gets comical when people are selling “banned contraband”
My friend’s niece sent around emails thanking everyone and a little photo/thank you card with her picture in her uniform. Already ordered a bunch from her already.
If you don’t want it just say No, Thank you – people will understand
Joshua we all all so grateful that you are so superior to all of us. It is great that we have you around to demean all the folks you think are below you on the intellect ladder. Next time I need to be put in my place I will depend on you to do that very thing. But remember this, with your type attitude and arrogance one day you will be an old man, by yourself, lonesome with nothing to keep you company except your superior intellect.
Atlanta Native Too, I would prefer to be old and alone with my intellect any day rather than be with those of inferior intelligence. And yes, people like you do need to be kept in your proper intellectual place.
Selling anything in the workplace is disruptive, but if your company allows it, always ask the seller: “What is the money used for?” Don’t assume it’s for a good cause because some sweet Girl Scout mom says so.
I work at a governmental agency, and I can’t count the number of parents/aunties who “sell” at work. Once it’s time to deliver, they “deliver” at work. Sometimes this entails hours and hours of time that is during working hours. This is on the taxpayer’s dime. Not appropriate in my book, but it is tolerated by the powers that be.
A parent is supposed to go with the girl scout and sell door to door, or at a booth sale or in an office, OR the daughter makes the phone calls to solicit orders. Girls are not supposed to just “give the order form” to mom and dad to post at the office. This is a Girl Scout rule of selling. And there are specific dates to sell within and guidelines to follow when selling. Unfortunately, MANY MANY parents and girls don’t follow the rules where selling is concerned. If the neighborhood is dangerous and the parent and daughter can’t go door to door, the troop can schedule booth sales in order to sell them. Oh…and I think it’s ridiculous for Daisy Girl Scouts to be selling cookies. This age group is Kindergarten and 1st graders and they’re too young, too shy usually, can’t calculate the forms, don’t understand money and giving change, and too many other issues here to list. The parent ends up being in charge of it all…..
I see both sides of the story. However, if the parents can’t sell the cookies, there will be a lot of people that can’t get the cookies–including me, so let the parents bring them on!
I have been a GS leader for 10 years. My daughters always sell over 150 – 200 boxes on their own very easily. In addition, co-workers who are my personal friends and out-of-town family get an e-mail letting them know that cookies are available, although they are no under obligation to buy from us. I usually sell about 50 boxes this way. I agree with the person who said you wouldn’t believe how rude people are to children. My girls have had people slam the door in their face and shout at them. Here’s a hint: if you don’t want cookies, just say No, Thank you. The girls are trained to accept that. You don’t have to explain; it doesn’t really matter why. If you don’t want to face the girl, don’t answer the door. Although it’s frustrating for them when they know people are home and they’re not answering, but they only stay for a minute or so. Girl Scout cookies are very easy to sell, so there is never any reason to pressure anybody into buying them. There are enough people that want them already, but you have to find ways to get to those people without bothering the people who don’t want them. Although I shouldn’t stoop to your level, Joshua Corin, I’m guessing you don’t have daughters. Girl Scouts has adapted with the times and is very good at helping girls with self-esteem, responsibility, and just all around making the world a better place. You may think there’s no room in society for that, but I bet most people would like to think our young generations will be better than ours. My 15-year old has been a Girl Scout since Kindergarten and she is a delightful young lady with only minor teenage attitude … Girls Scouts definitely helped with that.
I don’t want dinner/flowers/presents because my husband feels obligated and hallmark tells us which day we should show our love for each other. A gesture on any other day means so much more to me.
Miles Davis is the greatest trumpet player I have ever heard.When I listen to Miles Davis playing his horn,the sound is mesmerizing.Porgy And Bess and Kind Of Blue are the standards that all jazz recordings are measured.Summertime and Generique are my favorite selections.
Miles Davis is one of the great ones, I was fortunate enough to be turned onto Miles and Jazz in general my 1st year of college. Another great trumpeter for those who don’t already know of, check out Freddie Hubbard for a great track called “Red Clay” The live version features Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, and Ron Carter! 18 minutes of nonstop energy.
“Kind of Blue” is certainly among the greatest records ever made in any genre, and yet I think it has been less influential than Miles’s late 60’s recordings starting with “Filles de Kilimanjaro” through “In a Silent Way”, “Bitches Brew”, and “On the Corner”. KOB was a peak in modal jazz, a culmination of things Miles, Bill Evans, and George Russell, among others, had been working towards. The later albums were largely responsible for unleashing the forces of jazz fusin and jazz funk through the 70’s and open the possibilties of electronics to an entire generation of jazz musicians. Without Miles, we probably wouldn’t have Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock’s Chameleon and Rockit, or Weather Report. Love fusion or hate it, it was hugely successful in the 70’s.
Only Phil Carey could play the part of Asa. I Loved each and every sarcastic line that he Uttered, Especially to DORIAN LORD!!! Asa will be truly missed . and to the CAREY FAMILY I SEND MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY .
I’m with you!! I actaully just tried to explain this to husband before I came on here and read this….now he’s pissed at me and is accusing me of not loving him anymore. It’s ludicrous!!
‘Kind Of Blue’ is a seminal jazz recording because of the personnel on it. Miles’ most outstanding attribute was his ability to assemble great bands. Players he promoted became jazz stars in their own right, just as Miles himself did through Bird’s mentoring.
‘So What’ profoundly affected jazz that came after due to it’s modal construction. ‘All Blues’ is an interesting blues with a twist, the turnaround is characteristic.
I don’t enjoy Miles after ‘Bitches Brew’ (1969) all that much. My opinion of him plummets with his quote: “If somebody told me I had only one hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.”
Miles demonstrated the importance of space. What you don’t play, and where you don’t play it, is as important (or more so) than what you do play. He helped introduce George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept, a key component of music that followed — of course, so did many others. To some, Miles is just an out-of-tune trumpet player with poor range. To others, he’s the epitome of phrasing and concept. To me, he’s a racist due to being a victim of racism, and the person who assembled many of my jazz heros, bringing them into the international spotlight.
I am not worth a dime now since this new regime took power in Washington and has created Communism rule in America. Everyone that voted for B. Hussein Obama should be bent over a knee and spanked. Thanks for nothing.
Ricky Ricardo: Either you are joking or an ignoramus. Obama could do nothing in his first 100 days that could possibly change your situation. The U.S.A. helps those that help themselves. Stop blaming others and look in the mirror.
Charles is absolutely right. In any case, to answer the question, my net worth has fallen almost 50% in the last year or so. I still invest, but am fearful that I will still be working when I am 70 years old. *sigh*
On the bright side, I am starting to do some photography work on the side, so help me with my net worth, hire me! LOL If you think I am kidding, go here – http://www.ChiniCreations.com
I am a very conservative investor and although my home value has dropped, my investments continue to pay me 4 to 5% and this OK considering how my high rolling friends have lost everything.
Hi Mr. Aaron,
I met you at Executive Park in 1970. I worked in an office around the corner from you and I was 9 months pregnant with my first son. The mail man told me to buy and a baseball and he would let me know when you were in. You were so kind to sign the baseball as you have always been my favorite player. There aren’t many players that have the character that you have exhibited through the years. I cherish “my” signed baseball and my 2 sons are already fighting over it for when I meet my demise.
Happy birthday to you and best wishes for many more. Dottie Lange
Interestingly enough, I had a conversation with my grandmother last week in which I updated her on the status of ABC soap characters. I told her of Asa’s status, and she thought I was telling her that he’d actually passed on. “NO!” I replied as she questioned me –adding that ‘I would be sad if he were to die because he is one of my favorites’. Now I have to tell her that it’s happened exactly one week after I told her how I’d feel about it. Mr. Carey will always be remembered as a great actor. My most favorable memory of his character is the day he told Jessica that she’ll always be a Buchanan–especially because he was very exclusive with his club–this was a very powerful scene. I also loved the scene in which he told Blair that she’d actually gained a pile of poop in their divorce. In actuality, I love EVERY Asa scene. My condolences to the Carey family; Mr. Carey will always be my shining star.
I have been a fan of yours for about 40 years. Baseball is my favorite sport and you were (and always will be) my favorite player. When I was 12 or 13 I went to see you at Shea Stadium. I told everyone that we needed to get seats in left field because you were going to hit a home run “for me” because it happened to be my birthday that day. We messed up and got tickets in right field, but you hit an opposite field home run that day – I will never forget that.
Happy Birthday, and thanks for being someone I could look up to as a baseball player and as a person.
WOW! This same topic was issued on iReport other day and it also had some “hot” responses. I think the reason we are so stressed these days is that we are constantly being inundated by want ads ie: , tv, check-out isles, cars, cookies, etc. I would say “No, thank you” to office girl scouts and walk up doorstep newspaper salesmen. Rarely do I buy anything but if I do it is because I didn’t have the heart to say No but that is what you have to do sometimes. If it is the constant bother to be asked to buy, put up a sign or speak up nicely but firmly and mention this is not the time nor place for such things. Time or place would be to have a bake sale at school or park to generate funds. Now, I need to find my girl scout who owes me my cookie order. Cheers!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet and so are you.
But the roses have wilted
and the violets are dead
the sugar has lumps
and so does your head!
Roses Are Red
Violets are Blue
This Stimulus Package has gave you a clue
If you don’t know this, you’re heads in the sand
We all will be rescued, cause Obama’s the MAN!
Ironman, I don’t know how it is now, it has been a while since I has any scouts in the house, but boy scouts used to be part of the United Way. They got funds from that organization. The girl scouts did not. As a result, my money goes to the girl scouts.
Roses are red,
but why should the Prez care
’bout steroids and baseball,
when there’s *bigger* issues out there.
Like recession and war and abuse of Welfare?
Roses are red,
but can we repair
our foreign relations
And the Earth, water, and air?
Or abortion, Gay marriage, immigraton – do we dare?
Yes, roses are red,
and rhyming is fun,
You say “Yes we can,”
Well, politicians…
let’s get the job done!
As the sister to the author of this blog, I must comment! I am so proud of my brother! It really is like Feb. 14 with him and his wife. I was just talking about them today in the beauty shop with the other single women. I told them how the author of this blog and his wife seem to really be friends. They talk alllllllllllllll the darn time! So go ahead and skip today….your wife won’t even miss it…for the other 364 when you do show love!
Still tons of great music out there. I find most of it from NPR stories and Net searches, and haven’t listened to FM in decades. Irrelevant – like cars from the Big 3, they can’t seem to play what I might like to hear. But music hasn’t died – it is harder to find (if you’re over 25), and lives by the thousands on my ipod. Shuttle makes the best ‘radio station’ EVER!
I had a friend who died from throat cancer. The song his girlfriend played as she held him in his last moments was the song “Kind of blue”. RIP my friend.
Does anyone know what the profit margin is to a troop, per box of Girl Scout Cookies, or per tin of Boy Scout Popcorn? Are monetary donations discouraged? I would like to be able to give more, while buying fewer products I do not need, from multiple fundraisers. I do not want to just donate the product. Thank you.
Facebook’s retreat is temporary. Per their own press release, they’ll figure out another way to have control over the data and change the policy again. As if they don’t market all that information anyway — and so does Google. Gmail saves messages forever, developing marketing profiles on you based on the text in the messages themselves. You think they don’t sell that information?
Because of Google search and gmail, you can be identified by name and address within 7 clicks. Advertising groups track your every surfing move. It’s all for sale to marketeers who want to sell you yet more stuff. Same with your Kroger card, your VISA card — all your purchases define you, and that definition is for sale.
Nothing is free. Such targeted marketing is the biggest pot of gold that ever was.
Oh No!! not Again! Last year when this question was asked it created a flurry of pros and cons in regards to wearing an iPod (or any mp3 player) while running. Got downright dirty at times. How about asking what the runners are doing to get ready for the run? Or any strategies to get a number? Anything but the iPod issues.. please
“Better Now” – Collective Soul (and LOTS more Collective Soul songs)
“Bigger than my Body” – John Mayer
“Cruise Control” – Dixie Dregs
“Ah Leah” – Donnie Iris
“Rocking Down the Highway” – Doobie Brothers
“Runnin Down a Dream” – Tom Petty
Rachmaninov (the only music I have on my iPod)
NPR podcasts
Clark Howard
Bruce Willams
Stuff You Should Know
TechStuff
Wall Street Journal This Morning
This afternoon, 02/19/2009, in Federal Way, Washington, a diabetic woman was given two bites of cookie crumbs from a Girl Scout caramel cookie, as first aid, before the paramedics arrived, on the advice of her husband, who had arrived to unlock the car door. The semiconscious woman was found by Danette Lam, who had just picked up hundreds of boxes of cookies for sale. The neighbors had called 911. Paramedics were soon at the scene, and administered further help to save the diabetic’s life. It takes a village…and something sweet.
Sure they should be shown. It let’s the adoring public realize what a tough guy Chris Brown really is. I wonder what this young idol’s fans think about his talents now? I also wonder how he’d fare in a back alley trading hands with a man. What a chump. I hope she learned something about judging character.
Back to the stimulus bill/package and all of its offspring, seems the only people who support it expect to get something from it (at the expense of those who are responsible and work for a living)…
whats the real reason behind showing her pictures to the world what are we going to gain from this. there’s too much other issues that need being address rather than talking about chris and rihanna.its nothing more than a stunt to more damaged to chris. unfortunatly this has happen but we need to let the courts decide what fate chris gets and not the public.both images are damaged from this and he deserves justice until the truth comes out. and don’t misunderstand i’m not saying that he should be let off or anything just let the system work.i like both of them and i really hate that this has happen. hopefully they will both go and seek help for this
I use to play $10 a day but now am playin all I can.
Cash my check, head to the C store, play the video poker
and hit me 20 or 50 on the scratch off and cash 3
gonna hit it and leave u suckers behind
I thought they outlawed all those video gambling machines. It is amazing but I see
them all over the place now. Guess the APD is overlooking that they have been
outlawed.
From here on I will play only the mega million. I have noticed that the scratch offs are jokes. I spent $100 gift money on scratch offs and only got $9. That is ridiculous! Even if I got back half of my $100 would have been better than $9. Well, I guess the lottery employees and the head hauncho must keep their share for bonuses. Personally I don’t know why they are allowed to get bonuses for doing their jobs as state employees. I know that someone would be glad to work for her huge salary without a bonus.
Here is a hint: Keep around some old lotto tickets for Mega Millions/Fantasy 5, etc then COMPARE them to the most recent drawing. You’ll be saying ‘boy I saved another $10 by not playing’ in no-time. Honestly, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result! I used to play more than I do now. I’ve cut back because I’ve not won, not because of economy, etc. IMHO its insane to continue to play $20-$50/week and continue to loose. Common sense prevails versus the insanity of playing ‘heavy’ hoping for that big paydirt.
I can spend a dollar on food and get food. I can spend a dollar on the lottery (do they cost a dollar?) and get….nothing. Which is the smart to do? I have never played the lottery. Don’t have any money to waste. I feel surprised by those who do play. (BTW, I make 78,000 per year, own my house and cars outright, but I don’t have the money to play that worthless game.) Good luck to those of you who do. You are fortunate to have money to throw away.
lately I have found that I have been playing more than usual, but that is going to change ,I guess I really need the help right now but that is not the way to do it . So I am cutting back immediately.
I still play. I use the money I didn’t spend on eating lunch out that day, or the money I saved by not buying that second cup of coffee. My lotto spending is maybe 5 bucks a week. It’s still “worth it” to have the dream.
Yes, you could save up the money over the years, but you’d still never have the millions the bigger lotteries offer. To me, it’s fun to have that thought in your head (impossible as it is), to think about that first thing you are going to buy, to think about walking in (briefly) to your job, and telling them GOODBYE! Dreaming is a part of living, and if you can’t have a dream, you start dying.
Obama’s campaign rhetoric has backed him in a corner with the Liberal left wackjobs. The reality of the issues to be dealt with have shown what we suspected. He’s illprepared and there is no change…Clinton retreads in the Cabinet and key leadership positions and old tired Democratic solutions…throw money at it.
Then again, McCain was a horrible candidate on the pub side. Romney was the best candidate for the job but Huckabee helped knock him out in Florida by staying in and splitting the conservative vote.
Obama will be a one termer but his youth and “potential” I guess made him a more attractive option.
Retired,
FYI, the Georgia Lottery Corp is a PRIVATE corporation. They are not state employees. They receive no money from the state. Therefore, they are entitled to bonuses like any other private company.
Thanks for the correction. Since the Georgia Lottery Corporation is a private entity, that makes it even worse that they are able to legitimately rip people off under the guise of funding Hope scholarships and Pre-k. Big bonuses to employees still have a sour taste in many peoples’ mouths as we see the terrible state of the economy. I still maintain that there can be more winners than there are.
To Retired and all other ignorants………..
The Georgia Lottery is a private company……. Their employees are NOT state employees. They have a CEO and a board of directors just like any other private company. Saying they should not get bonuses or should return bonus money just makes you look SO STUPID. So for the AJC or anyone to compare salaries to the governor or any other state position is ludicrous. The first thing you should do is get down on your knees and kiss the ground. Thank God you live in the good ol USA where it allows stupid, misinformed people like you run your mouth and post lies about things you obviously know nothing about.
If you did a little research, such as open records, you would find that the GLC pays ALL of its employees and ALL of their bonuses with 2% of their sales. Find me ONE other company that can do that. They are a BILLION dollar corporation. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” Their CEO didn’t even make $1 million in salary and bonuses last year. There are million dollar private companies within a few blocks of the GLC office that pay their CEO’s millions just in salaries.
Actually, if you researched and compared the GLC with other lotteries in the country you will find they are underpaid. The GLC is the #2 lottery in the US, yet aren’t the second highest paid. They aren’t even in the top 10 in lottery salaries.
The GLC is not about you as an individual. It is an organization that is about providing children and young adults education. It is not meant to be a supplemental income for you. If you think it is a rip-off to help people who might not have been able to attend college otherwise (who then go on to get higher-paying jobs and pay taxes, which help benefit the state) just ask the 1-MILLION+ Georgians who have benefited from the HOPE and pre-K programs.
Calm down and stop raging. My opinion is my opinion.With your raging, you must be an employee of GLC, or have other issues. And, no the lottery is not about an individual. All I am saying is that fairness should be the issue. Payouts should be higher. I am sure that there are those however that play because their income is not very high and truly need the extra money. I surely speak for those people. In terms of supporting education, after working 40 years, I paid my share. I know without a doubt that the lottery has benefited thousands of students, that’s not the issue. In addition to taxes, I contribute to my alma mater and give book scholarships. I live frugally so that I can do that. Be blessed anyway. Ballbuster,I would like to win so that I can treat you to an anger management class.
A self imposed taxation by those who are usually least able to afford it. The lottery plays on the hopes and dreams of those who want to be instantly wealthy. That said, the lottery does provide education benefits. However, the AJC several years ago had an article that reflected where the most profits were generated and where the most were distributed. It seems mostly black Fulton county genrated the most revenue and larger white Gwinett received the most grants. Speaks volumes to me.
Too many states play Mega Millions for me to continue to have hope in winning. But scratch-offs and once or twice a year trips to the casino are my thing.
I agree totally with SPBBBMBB. It is just a dream and to play a little each week is okay. My mother always said the lotto saying to us which is ” It is A dollar and a dream” and you can’t win it if you are not in it to play. It becomes a problem when you are spending your last dollar on it or if you get depressed when you lose. It is a game. Some win and others lose.
System of a Down: Cigaro, Deer Dance, Bounce, Jet Pilot, Chop Suey
Anthrax: Madhouse, Caught in A Mosh, Cannot Kill What Doesn’t Die
Metallica: Disposable Heroes, All Nightmare Long, Judas Kiss, That Was Just Your Life, Frantic, Burn it Down, The End of The Line, Stone Cold Crazy, Trapped Under Ice, Whiplash, Phantom Lord, Helpless, Follow Me, Metal Militia,
I play the instant games, but I noticed lately that they aren’t putting as many winning tickets out there. The Georgia Lottery reported they made a killing last year, and one executive received an $150,000 bonus. I think we should all stop playing.
I’m playing the same amount, though I cut back slightly on buying higher-priced scratch-off tickets. I now play more $1 tickets than the $5 or $10 ones. The lottery has full control over printing, so my guess is that in order to save money on lost sales, fewer scratch-offs have winners than they used to, so most of any lottery money I play goes into the regular drawings, not the scratch-offs, anyway.
This is a CAPITALIST economy so you have the FREEDOM to CHOOSE how to spend YOUR money. That said if you WANT to play the lottery then play of NOT then don’t criticize other INDIVIDUALS how to spend THEIR money. That’s AMERICA and too bad the GOVERNMENT has BRAINWASHED this country to a recession.
Basically if you play the lottery you’re either ignorant or an idiot. Somebody wrote on here you could save all your life and never have the millions. Try comparing how many people who have saved their whole lives who become millionaires versus those who play the lottery their whole lives and end up millionaires. I’ll bet you a lottery ticket the number who save is over a 1,000 times more than the lottery players. That’s 1 millionaire lottery winner to every 1,000 saver millionaire. You work hard, save, and invest to become a millionaire, people. It’s not about luck.
You have too look at the Ga. lottery as an entertainment expense. Like going to a movie or going out to eat. It’s gratification. An investment in your fantasy to become a luckiy winner. If you have enough disposable income to throw at the lotto, then spend away. Otherwise,the self proclaimed King of Sandy Springs is correct in his philosophy of building net worth. When the money gets high enough on the Mega Millions, I burn a few dollars with some co-workers.
I don’t think they should have been shown without her permission. This will hurt both Rihanna and Chris’ career. I mean if there’s anything for Chris to salvage, he’s pretty much done.
i love how he is spreading the wealth. i love how he signed a stimulus bill that no one read. He’s giving more money to people who don’t have a job and don’t pay taxes. He’s going everything to take money from the people who worked hard for it and the ones who got it passed down. Hope over fear got him elected but now it’s just fear he speaks of. I think he’s the right person to really mess up this country and show the rest of the world we are complete idiots. This should be a lot fun over the next 4 years. Maybe the republicans should have a march on Washington. They to make their voice known…they are letting the idiots (which i love) ruin this country. We are on the verge of becoming France east.
Whoever is cricizing Obama needs to first get familiar with the positiion he has been put in. Ship was sinking already and it is getting worse and he has been asked to rescue it. Great job with the stimulus package and now may be some help for the homeowners..
We are a frugal retired couple. We paid off our mortgage and don’t buy anything if I can’t pay cash for-the old fashion way. Now we lost half of our mutual funds and because we don’t spend money we don’t have, we are paying all the bail out as tax payer at our age. what a sucker!!
Obama thinks he’s still on the campaign trail with his slick talking, high spending ways. He is singlehandedly destroying this great nation. He (and most of his administration) are racist, incompetent tools, and I can’t even imagine where this country will be after four years of his nonsense.
After one month he’s already done more damage to this country and to Americans than George W. Bush ever did in eight years.
In 30 days President Obama has presided over one of the largest redistribution of wealth ever in this country. He has said to trust him and his cabinet, but at the same time when he and his cabinet were asked how they will fix our economic problems they have no details. The current administration stokes class warfare in the name of being fair, and demonizes those who are successful. I am truly worried about the direction our country is currently heading, Free Enterprise is being destroyed, jobs are not created through handouts, they are created when someone has a service or good to offer that people want, and as demand grows and the individual has the resources, they hire more people in permanent jobs to produce that good or sell the service. I give him an F for substance, and has anyone else gotten tired of the fact that he is on TV every day with another speech or news conference? Give it a break, and don’t come back till you have a real plan with details of how you’re going to help fix specific problems.
Jeny wrote: “After one month he’s already done more damage to this country and to Americans than George W. Bush ever did in eight years.” Is she kidding??? Is this a joke??? Bush left the office he took with a multi-million dollar surplus and made the a multi-billion dollar deficit, he entered us into a war that killed thousands of young men, spent trillions of dollars, with nothing (not moraly or finacially) for us to gain. He had us holding moster labels to the world with place like Guantonomo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Are you kidding me Jenny??? What the Republican Party needs to do know is get real. Thats all. There is a real need for a “real” conservative party in this country and the Republicans have been a let down. Obama is more conservative than Bush for sure!!!
So far I think he’s been a miserable failure. I’m certainly not alone in thinking that either since his approval ratings are beginning to tumble. He’s obviously trying to turn our wonderful country into a socialist nation where the government will have complete control of your life from cradle to grave. I’m sure our forefathers are turning over in their grave’s right about now. The real scary part of this joke of a President is who will pay back all this money being printed? Sooner or later he will follow California’s model and raise taxes to astronomical proportions. Tax cuts are great but all the ridiculous spending is what’s really stupid. Ant farms in Vermont and rat houses in San Fran are ridiculous…..
Hes just another smooth talking politician that smartly used the Media and the race card to propel him to victory. He is very intelligent but so green in politics and experience to run the country. People expect too much out of him way too soon. he did inherit a terrible mess left both by the Repubs and the Democrat controlled congress the last 2 years. Only time will tell if he is successful or not, but we have to give him a chance and stand behind him at this moment. As far as the welfare part of his stumulus package, you have to stop the patient from bleeding before they can recover. That is priority # 1 now
Well he has shown us that as a Democrat you can not pay your taxes, then when you get nominated for a cabinet position he can pay them back with out penalty. There are lots of Americans wonder just how that works. He has also made this country a laughing stock of the world cause now you can’t make fun like they did with Bush because if you do someone might say your raciest. He is going to help home owners who could not afford to keep a house they properly should not have gotten in first place try and keep it so they can lose it later. He said before he was elected that he was going to get the troops out of Iraq, he just forget to tell us he was going to move them to Afghanistan. I could go on but why we are stuck with him for 4 years and it is going to be a LONG HARD 4 years. THANKS to all of the gullible people who believed in his CHANGE. Those of us that have WORKED hard and retired will now only have change in our pockets when he is finished.
So far, so bad. Stimulus that will stimulate nothing but anger in the next few years. I’m tired of all the democrats still “campaigning” by trashing the former President, especially when pelosi and her corrupt colleagues are probably a little more to blame than the extremely liberal media will report. obama has made no real changes. I think the only change he’s made is not wearing a coat in the oval office. Time for the Libertarians and the Republicans to start their campaign…just like the dumb dem donkeys did four years ago as soon as Bush took office for his second term.
It will be interesting when church lets today to hear the screams of racism start here about anyone daring to question barrack hussein’s success so far…the new attorney general calls America a coward when it comes to discussing race…but ANYTIME someone criticizes a black or muslim, they shriek and yell and march and claim bigotry…God gave you two ears and one mouth, try listeing (for once) twice as long as you run your mouth.
He said he would not hire lobbyists. He did just that. He said he would bring change to Washington. He brought back Clinton staffers and turned a so-called “stimulus” bill into the largest pork barrel spenathon ever. He said he would implement transparency, yet demanded Congress vote on the so-called “Stimulus” bill before they had even had time to read it. He promised to talk to Iran, they told him to get used to them having nuclear weapons and to apologize. He told the world America would become a better listener. Kyrgyzstan said listen up and get out. He persists in building up our forces in Afghanistan even as our ability to support those troops diminishes. In one short month he’s proven himself a liar and a fool. You really have to wonder what he will do for an encore.
Wyatt posted: “they are letting the idiots (which i love) ruin this country. We are on the verge of becoming France east.”
Hey Wyatt, if you look at the map we are actually located to the West of France. Kind of (hilariously ironically) illustrates the rest of your comment regarding idiots ruin(ing) this country.
I suspected this would end up being nothing more than a forum for ill-informed, whiny republicans to continue being sore losers–and once again ajc.com does not disappoint. The man inherited a mess and anyone who either can’t see it or worse, expected him to be able to fix it within a month is being willfully ignoraant and downright childish.
Jeny…this is just for you…you say that Obama has made things worse in one month then GW did in 8 years! That is so remarkably silly I wasn’t even sure I could add to it. I would ask you to explain yourself but we both know you can’t! In the last month has he screwed up as badly as GW did during Katrina? Any scandals on par with Abu Ghraib? Any scandals at all? He pretty much jumped in with both feet and has been working tirelessly–he is human so he will make mistakes and do things some would disagree with but working hard he is…I seem to recall that for the first few months GW was in office he was pretty much on vacation the whole time–perhaps, 9-11 could have been prevented had he not been asleep at the wheel…
It’s time for you replublicans to get over it. the majority of people in this country are fed up and want to go in a new direction with a new way of doing things. It’s what this country needs!
Funny some talk of redistribution of wealth but are they aware that the last 8 years was the largest redistribution of wealth ever with the middle class losing to the 2% upper-class. There needs to be some redistribution anyway!!
Obama set up the relief so he and the other smokers could get an extra $15 per week to pay for his smokes. Next he will socialize medicine to make sure his fellow smokers are taken care of by all non-smokers. What a joke, he wants to make sure the Americans that are facing foreclosure because they are in a house they should have never been in to start with get to keep it by forcing banks to rework bad loans? Isn’t this what got us in the mess we are in? May the good Lord help us all.
Just watch the jobs and your 401k/IRA continue to evaporate and his solution is to “Tax the Rich”. The drip……drip……drip……will continue. Then hyperinflation……………future does not look very bright.
I think it’s a little premature to evaluate President Obama’s job rating.Most of us hard working patriotic Americans are evaluated every six months on the job.So,Let’s take a deep breath and give President Obama an opportunity to stir this economy in a positive direction.Everyone with a credit card is at fault,spending money that you haven’t earn yet.Most of us attempt to live lifestyles we can’t afford.Who’s to blame for those decisions?President Obama?
I hate negative people and so far there are a lot of negative comments posted here. Probably Bush supporters anyway or racists mad that he is black. If you know so much then you should have run for president. Idiots!
Way too soon to field this question. Must the AJC fill their pages with this kind of fluff?
That said, I would like to see President Obama do well but I don’t have much hope that he will.
President Obama is a terrible disappointment. He is clearly unprepaired and in over his head. There is NO CHANGE in Washington. It is still the spend what we don’t have – pad the pockets of “friends” with the taxpayers money mentality. What do these fine folks give the hard working – tax paying citizens??? $13 dollars a week back of OUR OWN MONEY! Mr. Obama we were looking for CHANGE – stop all the crazy spending / take back our country from special interest groups / put America and Americans FIRST / Since he came into office I am exactly 35% worse off than before. So he fails with a huge F – Americans will once again vote for CHANGE in 2010. What in the world is it going to take to wake these WASHINGTON POLITICIANS UP?? Republician and Democrates alike.
He is shaping up, faster than any president in history, to be one of the biggest failures there is or ever was. But the press is protecting him, because they pushed him on us. If he fails, THEY fail also. And they’re not about to let that happen.
He’s horrible, he’s going to totally ruin this country. Your great, great grand kids are going to be paying for his HUGE mistakes.
He is doing a fantastic job. Simply because he is hopeful in dealing with this mess BUSH put us in! Most people get a 90 day probation period to see how things are going to work out. So it’s a bit early to call him a failure or a winner. Those people who are ALREADY calling him a failure are the people who are afraid he is going to actually be successful in cleaning up the mess Bush made. REMINDER: Bush pull the first “bail out” and the pointless “stimulus check”.
Creating “temporary” jobs for Americans is a lot better than Americans receiving a one-time $600-$1200 check that you have to pay taxes on. Roads, schools, technology, etc…all of these projects are needed! Why not now? There are way too many schools in old buildings that can use an upgrade. Not to mention Spaghetti Junction looks like it can fall any day now. Why not put people to work in this time of need?! (Again, thanks Bush) Yes, these may be projects, but most Americans are well aware that big corporations and other businesses are not invincible. This could give them another chance to save, get caught up, and/or live within their means. Some people may use the money to start their own business. (That can’t be done with a $600 CHECK)
The Stimulus plan was and still is available for anyone to read. So if no one read it, that would explain some of the ignorant statements and it. It will also explain why they are just waiting on the next Republican to come along… Shallow minds are the minds that got US into this mess.
President Obama is doing a great job considering the enornmity of the task at hand. The people with the loudest voices are the ones who support war, hatred, unequal distribution of wealth, intolerance for people of color, and failing school systems. George Bush is the worse president our generation has seen. The nation is in an unnecessary crisis deliberately orchestrated by the Bush administration. Our time and energy must be spent on rebuilding the country and on holding Bush and his administration accountable for the war, economy, and for monopolizing the judicial system instead of on finding ways to discredit Obama. The people who continue to support the legacy of George Bush instead of working peacefully with those who are trying to to overcome adversity makes it certain that our country can not afford to have another Rebublican president anytime soon.
AWFUL…typical liberal trash. Giving money by the truckload to those who won’t work. And keeping corporations afloat with our money is stupid too. He’s making workers and productive people pay for shiftless people that refuse to work, instead living off the gov’t. All the people that are productive are getting ripped by the fool. Terrible, useless, doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t care.
It is amazing reading the banishing of the President Obama. It has just been only 30 days. There was a lot of mess on his plate when he enter the white house. I feel he is doing a good job. I praise him and his staff with the accomplishments that have made thus far. Has it been perfect no way and we are not perfect either. He is still only a man that was voted in to lead a country. Keep up the good work and the postive impact you and your family has made on this nation. Fall short, just dust off and move to the next. Americans need to be patient.
President Obama is doing fantastic, considering the “hot mess” GW left on his desk. GW, Rush, Shaun, O’Reilly and the republicans had 8 years to create this big nightmare and folks expect President Obama to clean it up in a month… Give me a break! He’s done more in a month than those other clowns have done in their lifetimes. God Bless our President, may he continue to move this country and this world forward.
He’s in way over his head…to go from organizing ping pong tournaments for the homeless to becoming an absentee Senator and now to President. He’s very inexperienced and basically allowed Pelosi and Reid to write the largest spending bill in American history. The worst part is that his ideas are not his own, they belong to a guy named Karl Marx…completely un-American…He believes that Government has all of the solutions..he’s an Anti-Capitalist…he’s going to raise taxes on business and the wealthy. The very people that create jobs that create tax-payers to fund these moronic programs….I agree he will be a one-termer similar to Jimmy Carter…his policies will be his un-doing…Hopefully CONSERVATISM and it’s guardians will rise up in 2010!
Absolutely amazing, ALL the obama supporters here, don’t know the FACTS. They’re all blinded by the media halo that has been placed on his head.
In their eyes, he can do no wrong either, along with the media. They’re refusing to even LOOK at the FACTS.
Do you know how many trillions of dollars of debt obama just caused us???!! I’ll tell you since you don’t have a clue. The word is, about 65 trillion. SIXTY FIVE!!
I’m actually glad I’m going to die within 20 to 40 years, because I do not want to be around when this once great country, comes crashing down.
But you’ll keep blaming Bush for it. Won’t you?? Look to YOUR man, he is in charge right now. Not Bush.
Sure, his socialist, Marxist policies sound great to you people on the receiving end right now. It did to the Russians too because they found out, The Cubans loved it too ’till they found out Castro was a liar, Hugo Chavez etc…..
Yeah, you just wait.
Sure, Bush spent us into HUGE debt. Just what do you think obama JUST DID!!??
The initial efforts by this administration are dangerous for the long term viability of the country. Moving more and more people into being tax consumers while raising taxes on the rich, an elastic term if ever there was one, destroys incentives to take those risks that move economies forward. This is a recipe for a moribund economy. His support for the Freedom of Choice Act, removing all restrictions on abortion, are, to traditional Christians, morally repugnant. Closing Gitmo may also be a larger problem than Mr. Obama realizes. What do you do with people who are totally committed to destroying your country? The mortgage crisis, brought about by the Community Reinvestment Act, is being solved by moves that will increase my costs, though I bought a house below my means and paid for it. I totally fail to see any virtue in being forced to subsidize the bad decisions of others and that seems to be today’s stock in trade in Washington. Yes, I would love to have more money, but it is wrong to use the government to take it away from someone who earned it to give it to me. I believe in charity and gave, the key word in “gave”, in church this morning. I find that the way we should help others. Using the power of the state got us into trouble and using it as a means of charity, voting to make others pay for our causes, is no virtue.
“Give me a break”, why is it if you speak out against Obama then you are a racists or Bush supporter? Just because I don’t like him has nothing to do with the color of my skin. Why was it when people made fun of or disagreed with Bush, Clinton, or any other President it was ok but they were never called a racists?? Why is it that black people keep saying all the whites are racists but you don’t see Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson come out for any white person they feel has been wronged or made fun of? Why was it not racist when black people talked and made fun of other Presidents? Are you saying only white people can be racists,because I know alot of blacks that are racists against white people or against hispanics or orientals. How about GIVE US A BREAK from you must be racists or Bush supporter because we disagree with Obama! I disagreed with things Bush did too! So grow up and stop pointing fingers and giving people labels they don’t deserve!
They said that the American people would have 5 days to read any important piece of legislation before it goes for a vote. He did not even give Congress a chance to read what they would be voting on. Whats up with that
Everyone who has posted comments saying Obama is doing well so far are the same people who voted him into office. These people can’t face the truth that they were wrong and that they simply got caught up in all the Obama hype. The people who have posted that he is not doing well are realist. They understand that fixing the free market will not happen by growing government. Everyone who is posting here is free to approve or disapprove of Obama’s job so far, but the only approval that really counts is that of the financial markets. And if case you haven’t noticed, the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ have all TANKED since the great Pres. Obama has taken office. The markets continue to drop off a cliff every time Obama or one of his corrupt cronies opens their mouth. Any clear thinking American understands this is NOT good, no matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat. Obama needs to stop taking advice from the lobbyists and starting getting real with himself and the American people. Otherwise, we are in for very, very hard times ahead.
In very few words, Obama & his Socialists Party have taken us down the road away from Free Market Capitalism that made America Great to French SOCIALISM that will prolong this downturn well into 2010 & beyond.
FIRST OF ALL, NONE OF YOU PEOPLE KNOW HIM PERSONALLY (respectfully), SO HE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE UTMOST RESPECT OF BEING ADDRESSED AS WHEN SPOKEN TO OR BEING THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AS “PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA or PRESIDENT OBAMA”! PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO GIVE HIM THE RESPECT HE DESERVES. YOU WOULDN’T GO TO YOUR DOCTOR/HONRABLE JUDGE/PASTOR AND ADDRESS THEM BY HIS/HER NAME WIHOUT THE PROPER PRECEDING.
SECOND, HE IS AN AWESOME MAN DOING AN AWESOME JOB THUS FAR. I DONT THINK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THIS PRESTIGIOUS OPPORTUNITY IF NOT ABLE TO DO THE TASK AT HAND!
FINALLY, THERE IS MUCH WORK IN AMERICA TO BE DONE, BUT LIKE “PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA” said “yes we can”. So do your part by staying positive and realizing even GOD did not create this world overnite. It was 7 days. So if it takes “President Barack OBAMA” 7 years to complete the task, I am willing, ready and awaiting P.A.T.I.E.N.T.L.Y. and so can you.
Thanks for your time…HAVE A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED DAY
According to the comments I have read so far, if you don’t like Obama, your either rich, rebublican or a racist. If you do like him your a leftist, freeloading, democrat. Obama has accomplished his goal. Turn the “classes” against each other and only the government can save us and he will be King. Good bye America, Hello Russia.
It’s only been 30 days. Give me a break. Get over it. McCain lost. Why don’t you give this some time and let’s see what happens first. You can’t judge a President in 30 days.
We lets see first of all to Tina as a retired black man I can tell you that people I know need more then a “temporary” job. Your president is also going to give you money that you will be taxed on just not as much money so not sure of you point there. If the best argument your have for the president is to accuse others of Shallow minds maybe that’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black. OK now to illuminusluna as a black Democrat could you in your infinite wisdom please tell me what I have to get over other then the fact that my party elected an ill equipped man as our President. Attention ‘Give me a break” thank you, for the first time in my 60 year’s on this earth you have call me a black man a racists. Believe me when I tell you I have been called lots of things most of which I will not post some starting with the letter “N” but never a racists LOL. OMG not sure but would think you are white but no matter you are right on. The problem with most of my fellow African Americans is that instead of any kind of intelligent response to comments we resort to the “you a racists” comments which is the biggest reason why we still have the problems between races now. Wake up my fellow African Americans we will never be a country united till be learn to accept each other as we are good or bad. GOD BLESS everyone.
What a LET DOWN!!! Obama has failed on all of his campaign promises. Still waiting for the “change.” Hillary would have done MUCH better. Four years can’t get her fast enough.
Real – this question is for you. Can you give an example of what you think is so ‘awesome’ about the job Obama is doing? If you think the ‘Stimulate Government’ bill he passed is awesome, then I’m afraid you are misguided.
As head of state, I would give Mr. Obama an “A”. Because of his style and communications skills, he has generated an 80% approval rating (based on a CNN poll) for strong leadership and has so far been relatively well received by a number of world leaders. In addition, he appears to be moving relatively quickly with establishing relationships with leaders particularly in Asia.
As head of government, I would give him a “C+”. He failed to exercise control over the development of the stimulus package, allowing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to weaken the stimulus package by filling it with non-stimulative spending. Mr. Obama did give them license by requiring unnecessary spending on initiatives such as “greening” federal buildings and building hybrid cars. Only 17% of this package will help grow the nations gross domestic product. His package gives out a lot of fishes but no fishing rods. More should be spent on job training, education, and promotion of technologies that would help the United States find and extract more oil.
Unfortunately, for all of the rhetoric and campaign promises, he has acted nothing less than like a ‘deer in the headlights’. His very limited time in Washington and ‘no experience’ in the Senate is telling fast. He has quickly adapted to the ‘business as usual in Washington’ and really is not much different than his predecessor, except maybe a bit more polished and ‘trained’ in how to speak publicly for attention and in a method that sounds ‘confident and knowledgable’, which has yet to show it’s face. His prevalent ‘Socialist’ views and, apparent goals, have taken him completely off the path of his campaign rhetoric; but, for anyone of intelligence, you knew he could not fulfill the ‘BS’ he was throwing out. This was an ‘Oscar’ event from the beginning and nothing has dissuaded the facts of that. We are in for a long 4 years, and even ‘OJT’ will not come in time, as the arrogance that prevails over intelligence is too far in bloom….
Obama couldn’t be more of a failure. It’s nice to see that liberals don’t change much. They’re irrational hatred of Bush and moral values show all the time whether in their hate-filled rhetoric, or their actions. Contrary to their popular belief, Liberals are NOT “open minded”. They are more closed minded than any other group of people. Bush didn’t create this economic mess, but Clinton and his “give a house away” program dicated to the banks. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the Democractic give away vehciles. Now our “Messianic” President offers to pay for the mortgages of people who should never have qualified in the first place while good, decent, hard-working middle class Americans struggle to do things the correct way i.e., work hard, get an education, and stay together.
horribile!! we wi be lucky to survive the next 4 years. he was`nt qaualified and now he`s way in over his head. we don`t need a pelosi puppet,we need a president of all athe people.oh did i mention he`s going to free the veru terrists that want to kill us!!
He’s a great ‘emcee’ and host, the professionals who really KNOW what they want to do, thats not to say its good for us, are giving him the script and the so called ‘main stream elitist liberal media’ are making sure he is comfortable and his ego is on the constant rise, what a joke with all the idiotic idolizing from the teeming masses, most of which are like sheep being led to the slaughter!
what a mistake the american people have made!! we`ve elected a community organizer from the most corrupt political system in the country to lead our great nation.I only hope we survive long enough to vote him and his liberal handlers out of office before they ruin us all
President Obama has barely been in office 30 days. This country & the economy are messed up pretty bad. It can’t be fixed overnight & we shouldn’t expect that. I choose to see the glass as half full, not half empty. I am positive he can & will do a great job.
he is doing a great job ,even if the haters dont think so,what can he do in 30 days that took 8 years to create,get real,give our president a break,that few dollars you will lose on your taxes ,is nothing,keep up the good work mr president,god bless you .
The best our country can HOPE for is that BHO will be a one term president, otherwise the USA will be renamed USSRA! I am sick and tired of the democratic rhetoric of “helping the American people” by taking from hard-working, tax-paying, mortgage-paying, budget- to- make- ends- meet and raise responsible children citizens!!!! ENOUGH. When my husband and I were late with our mortgage payments, NO ONE BAILED US OUT- We did it the old-fashioned way, we scrimped and scraped and made concessions, worked more and made those payments. When we have had to pay additional payments on our income, we paid the penalties. Now, as it stands we will continue to pay our mortgage and the mortgages or the other SOB’S that can’t pay “theirs” because they shouldn’t have been in the #@*% house in the first place! In addition, when Uncle Sam sends me a tax bill I have to pay the penalty or I get a lien placed on my property…. too bad I can’t follow the same rules as the elite Obama administration has! This stimulus will cause to the greatest cultural revolution in the history of our country. Many of the outraged Americans will revolt, as we are sick and tired of carrying the deadbeats with entitlement mentality. The only thing this bill will do is continue to keep democratic deadbeat voters , democratic deadbeat voters for generations to come! Most shocking is not BHO policies, but that stupid people that voted for him are now upset about the stimulus packages. You suckers are responsible for $rewing us all!!!
Barack Hussien Obama was elected by the racist blacks and liberal left afraid to offend them.This is the beginning of the end for our free country.A president should be elected on the merit of his experience and the best ideas for our country……not the color of his skin.
Once again, reading this comments from these Redneck Georgia people drive me crazy. Obama has to clean up the mess that GW put us in and yes, he has been working since Day 1. Nothing happens overnight. Let the man do his job and help us. He’s doing the best than he can for a country with millions of people. All while GW sat around and too vacations to his ranch or whatever, and could care less about the minorities in this country. Where was he during Katrina? He came FOUR days later. GW has made a mockery out of the USA. Go around the world, you rednecks, and see what people have said about the USA for the past 8 years. I have been all over the world, and have talked to other nationalities and they think GW was the biggest idiot. But in the past year, while traveling, people around the globe have praised Barack Obama and said that who we NEED.
Redneck, racists people need to move somewhere else.
Kathleen, your right,he was treated like a rock star instead of a presidential canidate.most of the people who voted for him had no idea what his views were. now their finding out. i could care less about the color of his skin but he was`nt qualified to lead our great country. i only hope that people will wake up and vote all these liberal loons out before they destroy a way of life so many have scarificed to sustain
NDNGIRL,let me get this straight if i disagree with you that maks me a racist redneck? i`ll proudly wear the redneck label but i think you should look in the mirror before you call some body a racist.boh and the rest of the liberals are leading down the path of destruction.as far as minorties i must be one of them cause i`ve never gotten or asked for a handout from anybody. hardwork and determination are to keys to sucess that not waiting for some to give you a handout
Geitner’s plan may turn out to be OK, but he missed a real opportunity to mix some MEANINGFUL REAL STIMULUS into the bill like reducing the 2nd HIGHEST CORPORATE TAX RATE IN THE WORLD, and he chose to spend the entire trillion paying political debts to unions, the NEA, the greens, etc. Oh yeah, I forgot we get $13 a week extra.
Don’t forget about the protectionism slipped in as “Buy American”….. If you want to guarantee a depression, please start a trade war, you idiots….. Please, make us all poorer at the to appease a few steel producers. It worked so well in 1930…..
I wouldn’t say he’s doing a terrible job or a good job. It’s too soon to say. I don’t agree with the “grow government” spending bill, the mortgage bail out either especially the $1k a person gets if they make their payments for one year, isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? Why get rewarded for that. Isn’t it reward enough to have your house? For the post that says we should call him “President Obama” that’s ridiculous considering the names Bush was called for 8 years. For the other posts that claim Obama inherited this mess, back off of that, he was in Congress before he became President, even though he spent most of the time campaigning for President and voted the majority of time “present.” This grow government bill is nothing more than vote buying and paying back those that put him in office. It’s more like a Pelosi/Reid presidency than it is an Obama presidency. Perhaps the ?? should be how are they doing?
Before the election, Obama and the Dems had a solution for every ill in America, but now that they are in the driver seat, they do not have the PLANS necessary. It is easier to criticize than find solutions.
SORRY PERFORMANCE SO FAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHANGE !!!!!!!!
SAME OLD DEMOCRATIC SOLUTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!
DID NOT WORK FOR ROOSEVELT EITHER !!!!!!
1. The American people elect a black president with a total of 42 days experience as a U S Senator from the most politically corrupt state in America whose governor is ousted from office. The President’s first official act is to close Gitmo and make sure Terrorists civil rights are not violated.
2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a black Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.
3. The CIA Boss, Leon Penetta with absolutely no experience, has a daughter Linda we find out, that is a true radical anti-American activist who is a supporter of all the Anti-American regimes in thewestern hemisphere.
4. We got the most corrupt female in America as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.
5. We got a Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who files his own taxes.
6. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges.
7. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges.
8. A Labor Sec’y nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct.
9. A Sec’y HHS nominee who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes.
And that’s just the first two weeks. but who’s counting. ‘Nuff said…….
Misterearl, with respect sir it was clinton,reid,barney frank and other liberals that insisted that everbody should be able to buy a house weather they could afford it or not.
As for Obama – I can’t wait to see the bank executives, auto executives, wall street executives out in coveralls building roads and bridges – he did say “jobs for everyone” didn’t he. What a joke he is. What a disgrace and shame to this country. He gripes about stepping into a deficit, if memory serves me right, he voted for the bailout last year did he not?? He is proving to be just another politician who can’t tell the truth. He just does it with charisma which makes the young people of this country who know no better drool – it’s hypnotism at it’s finest.
I continued to be sickened by the out burst against this President.
Let me say I did NOT vote for him and I don’t believe for a second he should be in office, but he is.
Now, If you want someone to blame for the sickness and perversion that is sweeping America, agree with me that I am the one to blame.
I am convinced that the very person you see in your mirror is to blame for this discusting mess we are in. We have allowed our gov’t to get so big and out of control and we deserve whatever they throw our way.
If Ameicans had balls we would have turned out every congressman and senator, PERIOD! Yes, this includes yours too. Dump the entire infested
group and send in newly elected people that we can control with the push of a voting switch.
It is not the elected officals jobs to make sure we are happy and taken care of, it is our job. We do it every 2 and 4 years when we stand at a voting booth.
For the ones that say it is not your fault because you didn’t vote any of these freaks into office.
Your certainly to blame, next time VOTE!
I am glad I attended church this morning, this email could have gotten very ugly!
Well George. If I could understand what you were trying to say, I would be happy to respond. But your grammar is pretty bad. I don’t want to say something that may be the total opposite of your point. Also, because the name is Trina, not Tina, I am hoping you were referring to me. If so, the part I did understand is something being my “best argument”. I’m glad you said you missed my point because it’s totally true. Furthermore, I don’t know why you felt it necessary to say that you are a retired BLACK man. There are many WHITE retired men that know people who needs more than a temporary job. President Obama didn’t say he was going to give people jobs that would last for the rest of their lives. He wants to stimulate the economy, the rest is up to us as a people. And to your point of being racist, there are some black people who hate other black people. The same goes for whites.
Since you are retired, maybe you should take a break from this blogging thing. It’s a bit over your head. Blogging wasn’t that big back in day.
Here, I will put it plain and simple so that you can understand…It’s too early to judge.
This has been the biggest disaster in the history of the United States. In only 1 month, Barry has destroyed half of the country’s wealth and obligated the other half to pay for social welfare programs. The next 4 years will make Carter’s Presidency look like Camelot.. if we can’t dump him sooner.
Obama is Bush all over again on foreign policy, and Franklin Roosevelt on domestic policy. He has made absolutely no changes (Gitmo will be studied, detainees will not be allowed access to US courts) in foreign policy. As far as domestic policy, he is spending money we don’t have on favorite programs of the left.
yes i have earl,i`ve been in the same profession far over 30 yrs and i hope i can make it another 3 so i can retire.okay earl i`ll try to be fair if he can break away for pelosi and reid i might withhold judgement
NDNGRL,I may be southern and redneck but I have educated myself with a masters and have also traveled the world. I do not vote for someone because of the color of their skin but for substance.I’m sure your visits to those socialist country’s did garner lots of praise for Barack Hussien Obama,they can’t wait to see America fall.You should also remember to give credit to nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for their creation of the mess we are in since they have had control of congress for the last two years. As for us rednecks getting out…..you should read up on what a redneck is.As far as racist….I agree ,why don’t you go now!
Thank you for having an open mind. Unlike some, you are able to think with less rancor and fear.
The President is just one man. To change things it will take the entire country to wake up to what damage has been inflicted for the better part of the last decade.
So the popular liberal excuse is that things were so bad when Obama took over. Seems to me that things were set up by major DNC operatives to take advantage of what they saw as a crisis and did indeed help manufacture it for political expediency. If indeed the ship was leaking, Obama and friends have put a torpedo into her…nice going. I think we can look forward to an unprecedented effort at making Obama look as good as possible while he learns on the job and his minions continue to hand feed liberal special interests all the while telling us it’s all about change and stimulating the economy. In truth it’s all about them staying in power as they stimulate their political nest eggs. Disgusting display of self interest that will cost us, our kids and our grandkids dearly. Democrats have redefined the word “greed”…think about it.
thank you earl.i am proud to refer to you as a great american also.we need to unite as americans. if you have a problem with goverment notify you elected represenatives i do quite frequently remeber they work for us.lets work together and get this great country back on track
If you have travelled the world as much as you claim, you would understand that prejudice and ignorance is not as fashionable as it was during the 1950’s
misterearl,for your information his name was Barry ,so called by his family and friends until he hooked up with some muslim friends in college.Mybe you should be the one reading a book.
Obama is proving that he is the Chicago Thug Machine produced PUPPET politician.
In 30 days the Stock Market dropped a larger percentage in that time frame than for any other President in the History of our Country. This is the TRUE LITMUS poll.
The corrupt, colluding and electioneering Big Media are artificially propping him up in other opinion polls just like they did during the election.
He selected a cabal of the worst most controversial advisor’s and cabinet members in the history of any new presidential administration. His Press Secretary is the biggest BUFFOON on TV since Baghdad Bob.
His Stimulus Package will only stimulate the Democrat Party and will serve to take him down in 2012 to be the worst president in modern history that will bolster the image of Jimmy Carter to appear like a messiah of his time.
The “bailout” is not free money that has fallen from the wampum tree. We have to pay all this back through increased taxes. We are going into debt up to our eyeballs and will have to pay the bill for it for generations.
another bubba – the people who are eager to see the President (and the country) fail, are nothing more than poor losers. They are like the spoiled kid who takes his toys and cries in the corner if he can’t have his or her way.
President Obama will not be perfect, he has stated this many times.
How many Americans are willing to stand together and join to make the country better?
“I hope he fails”
I hope he gets more than 30 days before the crybabies throw tantrums
Republicans need to quit whinning and get on board. Your worn out policies have resulted in a marginalized party that is totally inconquential to what’s happening in this country.
That 13 bucks a week amounts to the largest middle class tax cut in history. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts resulted in 3 bucks a week.
He’s worked hard on the stimulus so it can to save jobs and the economy. The next time one of you sorry whiners post that he should fail, remember that one of the jobs he saves may just be your own.
Ya have to give the President a thumbs up. He is doing morein one month than George W. did in 8 years. And President Obama is having to clean up all the mess from the Bush years.
I love how if you do not like prezbo you are a racist. I do not like the person, I do not care what color he is, he is incompetent. When you figure in the government employee’s , welfare recipients, union workers, and the rest of the bottom feeding scum who vote, the true Americans have no chance, I have given up on this country. The people here write in how Bush was bad, No way, history will show he is a Great man and a great leader. The money spent in Iraq was money well spent. Remember, congress spends the money , not the President. We have been at the short end of the dems in the house and senate for a long time and the trouble facing this nation is their fault. The GOP has failed to grow a pair and stand up to the the left and do the right thing. All obama has done is rehash all the old clinton thugs. I always thought it was funny how dems wanted higher taxes, no I know why, they don’ t pay unless it means getting a job.
Remember the words of Thomas Jefferson: The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time.
Whah, whah, whah! Poor whiney Republicans! Ya just can’t believe you didn’t get to steal the election again! Bush II is the one who has nearly ruined what was once a great country. There was NO fiscal deficit when he took office (although under his father, Bush I, there was a substanial one that the Dems turned around). By the time Bush II left, we were $412 billion in the red. Obama is moving swiftly and firmly, is simultaneously compassionate and firm, and I love the guy. HE is going to the the one to save us, if anyone can. So quit your whining and own YOUR part in what resulted from the incompetent boob you repubs elected!
The biggest transfer of wealth is what we refer to as a bailout. Create paper money (fiat), give it to the mega bankers and let the american people pay the interest on this money the federal reserve has given away. This is also the way our government is run btw. Under our current structure absolutely nobody is capable of saving us. It’s a debt laden disaster unfolding before our eyes and we are to blame. Our forefathers would have been in Washington with pitchforks over alot less than this. All we do is vote in politicians that then tax everything we touch, and some things we dont.
Some think its a coincidence that our education system, health system, financial system and overall health have deteriorated so fast. It’s not. They have dumbed us down and taken the fight out of us. Just what you need to do before taking away peoples freedom, which is the next step.
Don’t blame O’bama or McCain or Pee Wee Herman, look at yourself. You’ve allowed this to happen and in a few years when your standard of living is closer to someone in Equador remember that today you had an opportunity to do something about it, but didnt.
Btw, this latest bailout/TARP/Stimulus package will be funded by your childrens taxes, which have already been spoken for. Another thing, as soon as we see a beam of light we’ll be hit with another disaster called SS and after that the biggy will hit as the gas supply comes to a screeching halt. Then you’ll see wars as any army needs fuel to move man and machinery. The real reason we’re in the middle east.
So quit blaming dems or repubs or anybody and look at what you’ve allowed to happen. And for those who are wondering things will NEVER go back to the old ways, 2004-5. LMAO Those who control the purse strings have demonstrated they can drain your finances whenever they’d like and all you’ll do is grumble and point fingers.
So dont blame OBAMA for whats happening. Just walk to the nearest mirror and look at the real reason america is about to become a 2nd rate nation.
It’s the standard liberal mentality on this board..if you disagree with Hussein, your a racist. Unfortunately we are going to have 4 years of this nonsense…remember, if Hussein does something good, it’s because he’s 1/2 black…if he does something you disagree with, it’s because he’s 1/2 black…I didn’t vote for Hussein, He is not representing my views at all, therefore, he’s not MY president…he’s just a slick talking hustler that comes from the corrupt Chicago political machine…Pelosi and Reid have already pimped him good….he will pay for it dearly..because this “Stimulus” will not succeed…never has, never will
Umm, Kathleen? You DON’T have a Masters–that much is clear from your posts. You don’t know how to punctuate (country’s? you mean countries). Proper names, such as Nancy and Congress, are capitalized. Also, had you really earned a Masters (that, too, should be capped), I can’t imagine you’d refer to it as “educating yourself”–what ego! You don’t bother to proofread–or you do and don’t know the first thing about basic English rules. PLUS, what I discovered during my 5 years of post-grad work (yeah, doctoral degree with honors) is while you will certainly find both Dems & Reps in graduate school, they are generally speaking both open-minded and respectful of one another’s views. I’m willing to bet your ‘degree’ was purchased from the back of a magazine.
I am grateful we have a creative, intelligent, and patient statesman in office. He has begun to create reasonable solutions to the mess created by a government that ignored its responsibilities for too long and a public that has forgotten the necessity of good citizenship. I wish he did not face so much partisan opposition.
i don`t think many people think ninny pelosi,reid, or most of congress are proper anymore incompetant may be a better term.as far as obama he`s just a liberal mouthpiece
The Obama camp has not included any business leaders in a major role! He must plan his imperial rule based on academic theory, most of his cabinet are Clinton retreads, where is change, stifle iniative with taxes, why take economic risk to increase a small business employment and make capital expenditures if it only leads to higher taxes? Lala land is his practicum, the American population allowed this to happen and will suffer for years. For our service based economy the stimulus does not appear to hit the mark, it will stimulate the south of border illeagal migrant to return now we are committed to an intensive manual labor infrastructue job works program. Sad but true with got what the liberal left wanted. It will be interesting to watch the academics squeal when they are laid off because no one can get a job to pay the taxes that support the government bloat.
How can anyone evaluate him based on a month. Good or bad there hasn’t been enough time for anything to make it to the public. An evaluation now sounds like the days I worked for Coke and every two weeks they would promote Steve Heyer as the new president of something based on the extra ordinary work he did the two weeks previously. In the end Steve Heyer was just a shiny t*rd, I hope Obama has a better track record.
A sound and growing economy is built on one fundamental: People need to have trust and confidence in the overall economy. Based on this one fundamental truth of economic human behavior, I sincerely hope Barrack Obama will learn to strike two words from his vocabulary. (1) “Catastrophe”, especially when referring to the economy, and (2) “Nationalize”, specifically when referring to the banking industry.
All of our worst fears are coming to the front, but the problem is not just Obama, it’s the Deomcratic Congress and the traitor Republicans that are NOT representing what their people want.
The majority of the country was against both the firt bailout, which the Republicans were blocked until Bush forced it thru. The more recently passed bailout/stimulus was fought hard by the Republicans lokking out for the little people in 80% of the US, but traitors to the Conservative system pushed it thru.
And before any liberals say that this stimulus is a good thing you should know some facts, since most of you only read headlines. Most recessions last around two years. Racing taxes on the richer part of the population, and on companies, ALWAYS lengthens recessions. The just passed stimulus will raise taxes on the upper middle class, the wealthy, and most companies. The result is a bunch of payouts to companies in trouble because they pay their board members well into the millions, while the common employee for them earns middle class or below wages. Way to help the little guys Democrats!! Another significant amount will give roughly $8 a week to every taxpayer. WOW!! Considering the stimulus, after interest, is going to use roughly $7250 of every taxpayers payment to the government. Which do you think would stimulate spending more .. giving bigwigs and poorly run companies millions and taxpayers $400 (non=taxpayers get this as well, which is ridiculous) .. or giving the average taxpayer $7250 to use however they wish? I thought so.
Welcome to communism. Thank you for the change all of those who voted for Obama.
The great thing about this, is just like in the 70’s, the Democrats are going to stink up the place so badly, they should lose millions upon millions of voters and put themselves in a 20 year hole in elections. I say should, because it seems people who voted in the 70’s seemed far more intelligent than those voting now, so I am not sure the message will come across as well as it should.
Stay focused folks. This dem/repub thing is just the distraction to keep us off course. Distractionary politics have been used to get things done for to long. Not one person has mentioned the real reason our country is in this position. It’s pathetic how you start blaming the guy next door when the real opponent is the one thats actually creating the fiancial policies.
I will say this, I wish I was on their side because a few well informed people can lead the masses around like puppies on a string. SMH
Here’s a question. How can everything you touch be taxed, to include the workers income that produce it and the materials used to create it, yet our country is borrowing money and paying interest just to function?
And whoever said congress spends the money is wrong. Congress is told where to spend and how much to spend.
Well, after 30 days in office, Obama is a disappointment. He is way over his head and definitely unprepared for the serious issues facing our country. He offers no hope, only fear.
He thinks somehow that $8 a week is going to stimulate the econmy and now he wants to put our money into bailing out people — many of whom — knew full well they were over their heads when they agreed to the mortgages in the first place.
He is a over his head. It will be a long time until 2012 …
Awful. “change we can believe in” apparently means appointing all lobbyists and tax-cheats to the Cabinet. How is that change? How about pushing through an $800 billion pork pile as a “stimulus” package. I’m sure all the new doggie parks and skate parks and Frisbee golf courses will have other world economic leaders shaking in their boots.
Presbo is swimming in the deep end and he’d never even waded in the kiddie pool before. But no one in the media will ever admit buyers remorse. You’re not allowed to criticize a black President in public.
Someone please answer this: What will the naysayers say IF the president’s plan does work? Will you make another reason to complain or will you give credit where it’s do? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the previous stimulus plan didn’t or hasn’t worked (before) Obama. Common sense is to take a different approach. Either way, there are cry babies who can’t spell or use bad grammar but insist on blogging . I love it because you all hate it. Go Obama!
To “REAL.” You say we should address the President with respect. Were you outraged when people referred to the immediate Past President as “Shrub”? I’m sure you were up in arms and defending his honor and respect at every turn, correct?
Hey, DJ – the previous stimulus package was created by the Democrat Congress. So – this is nothing new, just monumentally larger and doomed to fail just as much.
Also – the economy will turn around. It’s what’s known as being “cyclical.” If the economy had turned around 6 months ago – you left-wing bedwetters would have said it was either cyclical or the result of Hope in the Messiah – Presbo. It has to go both ways. No one man can push a lever and change the world’s economy. And certainly, a package full of useless pork isn’t going to do anything to fix this.
The economy is hurting. He just pushed through a trillion dollar payback bill (payback to all those who helped him win). We have his union buddies pushing for more money for the big three. And what is the first legislation he signs? Providing federal funds to promote the slaughter of the unborn around the world.
If this is “change”, I’ll prefer to keep the status quo.
WOW! It’s amazing seeing the negative comments on here. Did Obama just take office and weren’t we already in this mess before he took the oath…… so come on.. rate him in three years.
What I want to know is.. if Black Americans are “African-American” shouldn’t White Americans then be “European-Americans?” How many black people today are actually *from* Africa and how many white people are actually *from* Europe? (There will be some on both sides, but I would venture to guess that is the minority). I realize the history of each culture but in order to overcome the race issue prevalent today in this country, we need to remove classifications of White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, etc and realize we, at our core, are all people, plain and simple. Until that happens, these types of discussions (racism, black vs. white, etc..) will continue to be commonplace and that is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in this country since the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr and the many others who fought for equality for ALL, not just one race.
He has done a very poor job as President/Commander in Chief. As a politician campaigning/marketer he has been ok. If you really want to compare it to a regular 9 to 5 job, he probably would have been fired due to lying in the interview, if someone was dumb enough to hire him, even though he obviously did not have the experience. The truth is some people are going to say he did a great job no matter what, and others are going to say he did a terrible job no matter what. Simple facts are, he just doubled the deficit in less than 2 months. If you want to compare him to Bush, it took Bush almost 8 years. He was not truthful when campaigning (as he is a politician, that was expected by me). However, for those that crossed the lines, it is a bit of a betrayal and betrayal is always looked upon as negative. He supported a terrible stimilus bill because those around him convinced him it did not matter what was in the bill as long as he spent enough money, which as a President is not good. The President is supposed to lead not be led. What happened to the transparency he promised. We really won’t know how the first month will pan out for probably 10-20 years, but so far he has not adhered to his own standards and for those of us that are paying enough attention to notice this, he has performed poorly.
He is doing exactly as his liberal record stated he would do. He is making our government larger and the whole country dependant on them. When people’s votes are for money in their pockets, a democracy will fail. Period. We need change from this “change”. We need a new Reagan after this Carter.
I feel great knowing my hard work, thriftiness, obligation and personal responsibility in paying my mortgages and debts, personal responsibility in the types of loans I take out, matter not. Now I get to pay for those who made and will continue to make dumb decisions. The ones who make good decisions will continue to carry the water for those who do not. When you pull from Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul’s vote. This is how Obama got elected. McCain was really not much better of a choice.
I didn’t vote for him but I pray for him to do the right thing. Too bad he’s just another in a long list of tax and spend liberals with a twist. The anger that flows from this administration is scary. Equality? Seems more like retribution to me. An all out attack on those of us who go to work every day, pay our share of the ever increasing taxes and actually feed our children breakfast and lunch without relying on the taxpayer to do it. The entitlement mentality so ingrained in the Obama supporters is what is ruining this country.
You want to get the economy going again? Slash personal income taxes, cut corporate tax rates so companies can invest again and cut the capital gains tax. The economy will skyrocket. No country has ever taxed it’s way to prosperity and it isn’t going to work now.
Though I did not, nor will I EVER vote for Obama – I have to agree with those who say he has done what he has set out to do. His goal is to make Americans so dependent on the government that they willingly give up the rights set forth in the Constitution by our forefathers. He has rushed through his “econmoic stimulus” package so quickly that no one even knows what it says – get ready for more. Obama’s only goal is to cripple Americans so that he can have more power.
Obumba is doing a terrible job. All those whom voted for him will be singing the tune of buyers remorse in 3 yrs. He is taking us down the road to socialism. Bush is not responsible for the economic mess. The sin of man is..It’s preposterous to think man can spend his way out of his own woes..the people fail to realize that the democraps had both houses of congress since 2006 and have done nothing with it..It’s their fault..2010 the GOP will take back the house and the whitehouse in 2012. Until then, it’s going to be a bump ride with the socialism and immorality forced upon us.
Let’s see… so far he’s decided to let a bunch of terrorists off easy, put us in a crapload of debt, continued to support lazy people living off of the gov’t, and put a little band-aid on the economy by pumping up companies that can’t seem to do a good job anyway (there’s a REASON foreign cars are becoming more popular). I won’t deny that he has a certain personality, but he’s all talk. He didn’t even write “his” stimulus bill, and doubt he could have if he wanted to. Some of the bills he has passed are just scary. I can only hope he doesn’t do too much damage before his four years are up.
Considering the miserable state that George W Bush left this country in, I think that Mr Obama is doing a very credible job. Obama has already succeeded in passing an economic stimulus package, aimed at jump starting the economy. Obama is an extremely dilligently worker, and, most importantly, he is honest with the American people, about the state of our country, and the state of affairs around the world. This unlike George W Bush, whose blatant lie about weapons of mass destruction, led us into a war that has lasted six years, and cost 4,000 American soliders lives.
I say, considering the state of this country, it is impossible to judge a president in his first 30 days. Mr Obama will need a year, to really have time to accomplish things, and for people to arrive at a fair judgement of his presidency. Based upon what he has done so far, though, I like what I see.
Prediction: This country will be in far better shape in November 2012, when it is time for Obama to run for re election, then George W Bush left it in on January 20,2009.
Just wanted to say, that this is only our president first 30 days in office, I think it is unfair to judge him weather he is good or bad. I do think he is doing a great job at this time,we all should spend our time as a great country supporting and praying for our country and president,that we will be able to grow above this disaster we are in at this time.No one is perfect,but I can say he is working very hard at making a change, so that things will be better in the future. President Obama is a very educated and smart man,let’s give him a try. May God bless all of us and this country
NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE THINK THAT OBAMA IS GREAT! I too am against this stupid bill that is giving people on WELFARE more FREAKIN money!!! not all black people are on welfare! and “Brenda Tucker” its 2009, why do we need to have “tolerance for people of color?” not all “people of color” (as you put it) have to be tolerated. you mean bush didnt feel the need to CARRY the lazy people on their backs that refuse to work and obama is. are you implying that all people of color are that way, and have to be TOLERATED? I hope not, because that sure sounds racist to me!
I cant believe this crap. I have two jobs and im a student, and I wont benifit AT ALL from this crap. I mean, my parents make too much money for hardly any financial aid, and we arent enrolled in anytype of government assistance. too bad for us right?
Just because you disagree with obama doesnt mean your a racist, white people, and dont you think that all of us black people think that crap! you ask these radical black people that voted for obama (most of which wouldnt have voted other wise, just wanted to be part of history…) to tell you something about obama (and I mean politically, not about his wife or what his daughters were wearing, I mean the important stuff like what he plans to do with this country) and they haven’t a clue. i’m only 23 years old, and Im uncertain about what the future holds as well. I just hope that the senate and the house do their jobs of checks and balances because if it DOES all go wrong Obama wont be the only one responsible!
The little guy needs a break, not Wall Street! Thanks OBAMA. Conservatives had 8 years and look at the mess that was handed to this new administration. Now you say you have a plan to fix eight years of your own political screw-ups ! America has heard it all before, just sit in the back seat and shut up !
Lauren you are exactly right. I would also add that some people (other than black folks) also voted for him to be part of history. People got so caught up in the “let’s vote a black man into the presidency” that they didn’t even look at his “resume.” That’s the problem I had with him I could care less what color he was.
Good job Ray. Slaughter of the unborn.! Are we a nation willing to allow our babies to be murdered in the womb,before they are given the chance to be all that GOD HAD PLANNED FOR THEM TO BE.! By supporting organizations with funding who do these such things is a slap in our HOLY GOD’S FACE.! I was a child that was brought into this world as a result of my mother being raped. My mother loved me enogh to carry me to term, and she gaave me up for adoption. I was adopted and loved by two wonderful people. I have some physical challenges, but,our GOD has carried me through them all, and promises me in his word that ” he will never forsake me”. I am not critical of someone that GOD says he put into this place of earthly authority. “We are to give to Caeser what is Caesers.” But, God giveth and takes away. It is not and should not be our role as a Christian nation to support killing our unborn babies. The PRESIDENT OF OUR GREAT NATION SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER DIDNT BELIEVE IN ABORTION. Lets just love each other and support the man that GOD HAS placed in this position. God Bless Our Nation.
I think President Obama is in over his head. I can’t believe he sayd he inherited this problem. No! He saw what he thought was a problem and actively sought the office of President because he thought he was the man for the job. He didn’t inherit anything. He said during the campaign that he had solutions. Go for it President Obama but please don’t complain about the job you spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get.
I’m praying for all of you! You people should be ashamed of your comments, I could give each and every one of you a good tounge lashing but I won’t stoop to your ingnorant level…say what you will but at the end of the day Barack Hussein Obama is President so get over it!!!!
Using scare tactics to push through a bill only to jet off to Chicago in Air Force One for a 3-day Valentine’s Day/President’s Day weekend and then to Denver for a flashy bill signing ceremony. Huh? I don’t get it! We’re either in a crisis and need leadership and decisive action now or it’s all a bunch of rhetoric… and by many of this President’s actions it’s all a bunch of rhetoric. Thus far he seems more interested in trying out all of the bells and whistles of his new office, e.g. Camp David, Air Force One, etc. and holding cocktail parties and dinners and being on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine than he does fixing the problems of our Nation. I didn’t vote for the man but dammit he’s my President now too and I expect him to get down to business and put an end to all of this self-aggrandizement. Leadership starts at the top and I’m sorry but President Obama is not showing leadership.
First, it’s been a month. It’s too early. There is some good and bad in this bill. Happy to see the ‘energy’ initiatives in the bill. Happy to see the tax cuts (and I will see very little benefit from these), happy to see the infrastructure spending (wish this had been the focus).
Second, those who play the race card lose credibility right out of the gate. It tells everyone who reads this that ‘you’ are a racist. Do not believe me?
rac•ism (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Third, totally agree that President Obama should always be addressed with the title President ‘first’. Too bad that most of you could not show that respect for our previous President.
Fourth, if you honestly believe that everything wrong with this country fell on the shoulders of this previous administration, you are either naive or ignorant. Some names you should research:
Senator Frank and Senator Dodd (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).
President Clinton’s Administration (laws changed in our banking system that last two years of his administration). The Bush administration tried to change multiple times and ran into significant interference from the Senators mentioned above.
President Clinton (opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden).
Our past President and the Republican Party (for six years) spent like drunken sailors. So far, the Democrats seem determine to ‘out spend’ them, which I did not think was possible.
Fifth, money supply. There is only so much money that any market can bare and be loaned out. Much of that was just sucked away by the US government. The only way that more money becomes available is by expanding the economy. This administration is betting that the money they are taking away from free enterprise will do just that. We all should hope and pray that they are correct.
I’ll give the man and his administration a chance. Certainly more than many of you ever gave our last President.
Looks like the American people have been coned by a great public speaker.
President Obama promised us change. He promised the American people transparency, and he has not delivered.
Promised to give the public time to review bills before he signed them. Hasn’t done it yet.
Promised to get rid of the Bush tax cuts, but had decided to let them expire.
Promised to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now is deploying more troops to Afghanistan.
Promised to give detainees in Cuba access to the US Justice system. Denied them constitutional rights after he ordered Gitmo shut down.
Promised to clean up Washington but then appointed tax criminals to his cabinet.
Promised to be a leader in Washington, then allowed Pelosi to form the stimulus package
And that’s only in 30 days…
But none of this means anything because the press treats him like a rock star and not a president.
And, somehow, since I think he has broken his promises, that makes me a raciest.
But there is a silver lining. Obama preached change and hope in his campaign, and it appears as though his positions are changing. Now that gives me hope.
Awful.
Far left policies unlike anything he said during the campaign and have NEVER worked when tried in the past.
Several of cabinet nominations have had to withdraw but he says they have been selected with “the highest standards”.
Already broken several campaign promises to be “open and transparent”.
Oh and inviting republicans to dinner was just a show when he then in private says “I won” so my way rules. Its childish and dishonest considering his public stated goals.
But by far worst of all, is that we have real enemies in the world that can sense that Obama is in over his head and they already appear to be flexing their muscles. This is a VERY dangerous time for the US to get complacent and/or have naive leadership.
Truthfully, you must give President Barack Obama some leeway, considering he’s been in office 30 days. Can you really judge a man’s character and morals from 30 days of action out of 4 years? What with an economic slump, and 8 years of the age of indecisions and bad decisions of those that were decided, you can’t expect the President to pull a Superman! The Republicans had their chance, and blew it. I do not mean to entirely offend Ex-President George Bush, but he did not do anything to help the economy, while the press gave him worse and worse breaks. Even so, the people of the U.S.A. own up to some of the problems themselves. If President Barack Obama fixes problems, no one can expect all of them to disappear. We have to meet him more than halfway for anything to get done in this day and age. We can not blame all of our problems on the figurehead when the new Administration has been in effect for only 30 days. And to those who complain of the “defective Administration”, do not forget that many of these are reprecussions from the previous Bush Administration. And to all of you complaining Republicans who think someone could have done better, you can’t do anything wasting your complaints now. President Barack Obama is in Office, and it does no good and too much harm to condemn him further. To get this country of ours out of this rut that Ex-President George Bush just dug deeper, we need to act now. Yes We Can!
It will only get worse, you can’t expect someone who has NEVER accomplished anything in a leadership role to suddenly lead, He’s a news hype something that should have never happened
No problem with a black president. Big problem with a liberal president. Heck, read the resumes of some of his cabinet and close advisors-some of them are as lefty radical as they come. I blame blame Bush for a lot of this. We he had both houses of congress on his side, he had the chance to just about crush liberalism, (at least set it back) and now since he let them off the hook, we’re slouching toward socialism. Let’s hope that the new generations “professional blacks” realize that it’s their country now and they had to earn their wealth just like everybody else. Maybe they won’t think too kindly about Obie redistributing the wealth.
When you went to bed last night, this country was headed by President Obama. When you go to bed tonight, this country will be headed President Obama. With your continued leadership and the wisdom of those who think like you, he will be re-elected in 2012.
Deal with it.
Welcome to the new America. We will rise again under the leadership of President Obama, a true Americam. GOD bless America.
Big – fat – ZERO! He is not a leader nor will he ever be a leader! This man has an agenda and his best interest lies only in getting his agenda accomplished, not doing what is in the best interest of the American people.
And not to seem redundant, but as much as you think you are “let down” because President Barack Obama did not fulfill ABOSLUTELY EVERYTHING that he promise in 30 DAYS, that’s the way these Presidential candidates have been doing it for a long time. Ex-President Bush promised us the things that we wanted to hear. Over a 4-year term he gave us (or shall I say took from us) the exact opposite of what he promised to us. And yet we elected him again. Why? Because some of us believed and refused to look at the truth. Faith isn’t everything, time is the true answer. I truthfully dislike, almost hate, those who demand their instant gratification while they patiently sat out the 7th worst president in his 2nd term. Those who do want their instant gratification may enjoy taking a look at Hofstede and his concept of the ‘desirable’ vs. ‘desired’. Let us make the two into one, and stop this useless whining…
I am appalled at the unpatriotic behavior of my fellow Americans. The US is facing a crisis far greater than anything the US has encountered since WWII. Even the CIA has reported to Congress that this crisis is far more dangerous than terrorism. As true patriots, we need to rally around our elected officials and support our president. United we stand, divided we fall.
Blaming the size of the government is not a plan. Remember, we tried “tax cuts” and “deregulation” for the past 8 years. We invaded a country looking for “WMD”, but found none.
This country has selected new leadership to take us in a different direction. Either provide some solutions or stop complaining.
I voted for him but so far he’s broken many of the promises he made so I am very disappointed in his performance thus far. The fact that he said he would bring the troops home and that he is anti-war and then to find out he is sending more troops in to Iraq and Afghanistant is the major disappointment. I know it didn’t make the news that he is sending them to Iraq but being in a military family I know he is. Also the fact that he bailed out companies that should have been allowed to collapse and as a result the rich CEO’s got even more money and bonuses as a result just appalls me. Why did Obama not consider helping out the American taxpayer rather than rich corporate leaders and owners? We needed it more but as a result he is placing the burden of repaying the money on us while the CEO’s enjoy spas etc. Obama also did not stop the lobbyists and special interest groups from controlling Washington like he said he would either. All in all I give him a failing grade for his actions thus far and I regret ever voting for him.
Has he started “working” yet? I only see deficit spending which will bury my pre-teen grandchildren with debt! Hey Sam From GA – whose been in control of our inept congress for the past 3 plus years? Your simple advice – provide solutions or stop complaining! Further proof that knowledge without wisdom is blatantly useless……….
To Kathleen and Another Bubby:Where did you two go to school?Were you two homeschooled,or did you receive your diplomas from a mail order catalog?Just asking!
I think Obama is still shocked that his there. He seems to still be in campaign mode, parading himself around the country to push his awful socialist entitlement plan. Now he wants to punish the producers of the country by raising their taxes. This will destroy us.
First let me say that Iam NOT partisan.I have voted for George Bush and Bill Clinton.
As a fiscal conservative and cultural moderate, I really wanted to give President Obama a chance before I judged. He is an articulate, intelligent man and I assumed that he would put as his highest priority to bring our country out of the recession/depression we are currently in. I had prayed that he would push Congress to do what was necessary. I was hoping that “change’ truly meant change.
I fully understand that he is under political pressure to pass legislation that appeases the more progressve/liberal Congress but I had hoped he would delay or at least spread out the inflation producing, politically motivated legislation.
After downloading and reading the Stimulus Bill and researching it, I realized that my hopes were obliterated. In just 30 days, he has already proven to be as or more partisan than President Bush. I am very, very dissappointed.
My only hope is that the congressional elections of 2010 will force Obama to the center or he will back in Chicago watching the Sox play.
Dls- did you see Bush’s record before he became president? Every company he ran collapsed yet he always made money. He ran the country just like his private companies.
And all presidents are products of the media, but then again who isn’t? I’m still trying to figure out where Britney Spears talent lies. Thats one of our problems too, the media tells us what to believe because we dont want to think for ourselves.
Listen folks, our country doesn’t produce anything and production is the life blood of any great country. We allowed our government to ship our best jobs over to a country that now owns us.
What industry will lead us out of this situation? Automotive? Real Estate? Tansportation? Nope. 2/3rds of our economy is you heading to the mall and shopping and you dont have the funds to do that so we’ll have to wait for the government to pick up the hoards of layed off folks. What we’ll have really is working welfare rolls. So it goes.
kclubmember, may god bless your bigoted soul and those who think like you.I`m proud to be American even if our current President is a misguided liberal. vote for real change in 2010&2012
Ok, people. Enough criticizing of the President of the United States. Whether you voted for him or not, He is OUR President. If you aren’t happy with how he is trying to get America back on track, then…..move to another country and see if that’s any better for ya.
If he champions another bailout of GM & Chrysler without demanding union concessions on wages & benefits. I will persinally buy him White Sox season tickets for 2013.
All I have seen from Washington and Detroit so far is that Detroit will go from making poorly built gas guzzlers to poorly built hybrids. Given that it won’t be as easy to lease cars going forward, I am curious who can afford to pay $40,000 for the Chevy Volt.
He’s only been on the job a month. So give him a break. That said, it’s been a pretty scary start for a man who had so many believing in his ability to make a difference. Most of his early moves on the economy seem to be counterproductive. And many of his cabinet picks have serious ethical problems. Let’s give President Obama time and pray that his next few months will be better.
OBAMA is a Yes man and even the Arabs got that right about him..If we had said it here we’d be racist,lol this world cracks me up..there have been white slaves black slaves and all colors of men and women that have been slaves but we all tend to just look at the past 100 yrs and cant see beyond that .also Id like say there’s slaves as we speak in Africa that are slaves to other Africans and that’s where the white man got them from so many years ago .FROM OTHER BLACKS IN AFRICA.Oh and it was the Italians and Spanish that did it first less we forget and were 85 % of the slave trade .only 14% here..but we take all the heat and blame for it..i blame Liberals of the bleeding hearts variety for that .you don’t loose racism by keeping it going .Two wrongs don’t make a right those.Black people who wont take account of their own situations will never get over their racist attitude until they become fit enough and responsible enough to forgive their selves and only then will they become part of the solution instead of their own problem..Whites and blacks together should hold all these people in account .we have done that in the white race for ever that’s why we disagree so much its called Constructive criticism freedom of speech and Dialogue .I see some but not a lot of other Blacks doing this now ,like the 60 yr old Black man in here that see’s OBAMA for what he is and it’s no secret he is a under qualified and a socialist..In case no one noticed the black caucus has been doing this and preaching socialism on CSPAN for years now and no one SAID a word.Most of the black people in power want this so they can even the playing field and redistribute the wealth and that’s not a good thing ..what if it were whites doing the same thing ? They would not like that AT ALL,well there’s black rich men and women in this country who finally made it, that are going to have to give their money in taxes to white and black sorry asses that dont or wont work .Wonder how that will play out..and one more thing thanks to Barney Frank,Chris Dod and a lot of the Democrats that would NOT let them regulate the market and the Financial organizations and their loans and spending.the Market and all else went bust..GW is not without fault either but not as much Hell as the media put on him for sure..I wouldn’t blame him if he didn’t care a damn about this country after what you people put him through and you are the same people crying for us who didn’t vote for O to give him a chance ? when we already know what he is ? and now He is proving it everyday ..there will be poverty crime in this country that will pale in comparison to Katrina at the things that are getting ready to happen here in this country and on this Earth .after awhile people wont care about white or black but how to eat and survive..Now take that and chew on it for awhile
Presdident Obama is doing a great cleaning up the republican and Bush mess…I give President Obama credit for trying to help the middle class and poor….That why we need to vote the republican out the offfice
President Obama is doing a GREAT job thus far for ANYONE in his position. You idiots always have something negative to say. You should have said all this hogwash when YOUR CONSERVATIVE President and his friends were in office. HOwever, you all chose to sit in a corner and go with it like the idiots you are. Our situation is not blamed on the “liberals” alone, because we ALL know the dumb conservative that just left office had a lot to do with it. He could have done more no matter what EXCUSE you idiots make, don’t make it seem like he did all he could because that fool didn’t. President Obama keep doing a great jobs… its shows he is because there are a LOT of negative people that don’t want to see him do good but he is.
They ought to tie his ass up and let her whole family ,just the Women tear his Ass up and beat the spirit and ego out of him.break him down in other words
Very disappointing. Said the right things at first, and I had hope. Now shows his true colors and lack of any type of leverageable experience. Seems at best clueless. Needs to quit campaigning, he won already, and start listening and governing.
The people spoke loud and clear, but you Republicans have your heads up your butt and can hear the voice of the people. We’ve been trickled on for the last time and your comments are totally ill-timed.
Have you forgotten that the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of congress for six out of the last years and did nothing to justify another four years?
Such it up! Man up! You got your butts kicked fair and square.
This guiy does not have a clue what he is doing…..first he wastes a trillion dollars to pay back his cronies that got him in office and now he is making me responsible to bail out the do nothing low life dead beats of society that never should have gotten a home in the first place…..all the idiot liberals can do every time Obama fuks up is whine about george bush even though he is no longer president….how can these people be so damn stupid? oh wait they feel for the change you can believe in crap…no brains and look where we are now!!!
What’s the difference anymore? You just have to decide what you want your money wasted on. The police power of government is being used to take tax money from unwilling citizens to make giant pay outs to companies and individuals that have made terrible choices. Save yourselves and Vote Libertarian.
for the first 30 days i believe he has done more than the Dictatorship of the Bush administartion has done in eight years and that is to listen to ALL the people and not just a select few groups. He has also shown the world that we are not just mindless barbarians trying to rule the world (Middle east), but we can also listen and discuss our differences. i see when people talk about President Obama they spell out his full name in order to reveal his middle name which is Hussein. that is the problem right there. People have yet to evolve from the rhetoric and name calling they so often hear on talk radio and the news. unfortunately there are still many people who are racist toward other ethnicities and therefore have a closed mind and can not let go over their obsession of hate. I have been in georgia for 3 years and all i hear is of racism, hate, war, and just negativity instead of ideas on how to better our community
Lets See what Change you can believe in really is shall we??:
· The Dow at a 10-year low.
· A tax cheat running the IRS
· Another tax cheat as the Chief of Staff
· A trillion-dollar plus federal deficit
Over one-half of voters relieved of any federal tax liability
Government mandated limits on executive compensation
· Three failed attempts and still no Commerce Secretary
· Tom Daschle rides his free limo into the sunset – after paying taxes he evaded.
· The White House performance czar turns out to be a tax cheat also
· Lobbyists hired to work for the Obama Administration
· The census gets politicized
Double government spending in one year
·The word “freedom” fades into obscurity
· Increasing home loan mortgage rates across the board
· Millions of Americans made dependent on government
· Moving unionization-by-intimidation forward
· Welfare checks become “tax cuts.”
· Illegal aliens free to work on taxpayer-funded “stimulus” projects
· Welfare reform reversed, states ordered to increase welfare roles
· Move to silence critical talk radio shows
· Selling Senate seats
· Obama books in religious sections of book stores
· More government workers, not private sector jobs
· A government bureaucracy to intrude on doctor/patient relationships
· Stage set for medical services rationing
· Annual welfare checks for middle income families
· Dow at a 10-year low.
· A tax cheat running the IRS
· Another tax cheat as the Chief of Staff
· A trillion-dollar plus federal deficit
· Over one-half of voters relieved of any federal tax liability
· Government mandated limits on executive compensation
· Three failed attempts and still no Commerce Secretary
· Tom Daschle rides his free limo into the sunset – after paying taxes he evaded.
· The White House performance czar turns out to be a tax cheat also
· Lobbyists hired to work for the Obama Administration
· The census gets politicized
· Double government spending in one year
· The word “freedom” fades into obscurity
· Increasing home loan mortgage rates across the board
· Millions of Americans made dependent on government
· Moving unionization-by-intimidation forward
· Welfare checks become “tax cuts.”
· Illegal aliens free to work on taxpayer-funded “stimulus” projects
· Welfare reform reversed, states ordered to increase welfare roles
· Move to silence critical talk radio shows
· Selling Senate seats
· Obama books in religious sections of book stores
· More government workers, not private sector jobs
· A government bureaucracy to intrude on doctor/patient relationships
· Stage set for medical services rationing
· Annual welfare checks for middle income families
The above facts speaks for it all….This GUY SUCKS AS PRESIDENT!! This proves Liberals are complete brainless dumb asses…they actually think all of the above is good work….What a bunch of LOSERS !!!!!!!!!
JC – Has it correct. Repubs need somebody to blame and Obama is it. Truth be told, President Obama has the most thankless job in the country right now. He’s playing the role of Janitor who gets to clean up all the elephant dung after the GOP circus left town.
I’m not a huge Obama supporter, but I’m thankful we have this man who is smart, articulate, and possesses leadership skills far beyone what we’ve come to expect from the previous administration.
Most blacks voted for Obama for the fact that he’s half black. They’re too uneducated to vote on the issues. This election reminded me of American Idol, with all the judges being black. Funny how the “African Americans” became Americans when it came time to vote. Hypocritical fools….
Republican, Dem, Independent, whatever. None of us matter to these people & none of us has any control or say so. I am, for the first time in 42 years, afraid of living here in America but as an American who has never been out of the country I don’t know a place that would be any better. More & more I can’t watch the news, read newspapers or get online. I am scared. For everyone except those greedy, selfish people in Washington. This country is going to fall..either to the radical Muslims or China. I don’t have children & amm glad now I don’t. The world they are inherting is going to make the movie Mad Max look like a day at Disney.
TruthHurts – you are my favorite type of posting…you think you have it all figured out…but your true ignorance really shows when you try to put down other people. You are hopeless. Keep living in your bubble.
I had high hopes for President Obama, but he has certainly not gotten off on the right foot. Too many of his nominations have been crooks, so no longer sure of his own character or values. I had to work hard for my money; I had to sacrifice to own a home; I had to think through what I would have to give up to make a house payment; but with President Obama, even a fool can now own a house even if they have no way of paying for it! I get the distinct impression that he is trying to buy future votes with my meager taxes. What am I supposed to do as a 70 year old? Thank him for causing the stock market to tank 2,000 points since his election with my IRA losing my future?? I shutter to think of what he will do to health care!!!! Folks, as a senior citizen, I am NOT IMPRESSED!
I love how all the people who were bashing the former president are the ones saying that we need to rally around the current president and support him because it’s the patriotic thing to do.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
What’s even funnier is that the masses that voted Obama into office will be lead like lambs to the slaughter after he rapes our country with his stimulus disaster.
You know, I’d like to be fair and hope that whatever poor soul decides to take the job of heading the free world, that whoever he or she may be start off on a high note and have a successful 1st 4 yrs. But I’m sorry, the way this guy is going, I don’t think the country can take 4 more years of him. My points are these:
1 Why are you going to close Guitmo? OK I get that some people have the conception that prisoners get tortured blah blah blah. You know what though, the terrorist that are housed there would be a bigger threat if they were housed over here. And several of our alies have said they will not house them if Guitmo is closed.
2 Stimulus Bill. I don’t really need to say much on this except THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. YOU JUST INSPIRED ME NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN BECAUSE IF I DO THEY AS WELL AS ANY GRANDCHILDREN I MAY HAVE WILL BE PAYING FOR THAT BILL FOR DECADES!!! Yeah I know he didn’t write the bill, but he signed it into law. Without that pen stroke maybe we could’ve worked out something else that made more sense. Doubtful I know but anything’s possible.
3 I just got done reading how the president wants to cut the deficit in 1/2 by reducing funding for the Iraq war and “taxing the wealthiest in the country” OK, I get that there’s a fair amount of people that have wealth envy and think that rich people somehow just had a pile of money dumped in their laps without having to work for it. But I’m sorry Most rich people own companies that provide jobs to the “middle class” and many other jobs that could be had by others needing work. What do you think is going to happen when all these supposed rich people start having the tax bill hiked up on them. They’re going to start making cuts in their companies which means JOB LOSSES GO UP! Which means UNEMPLOYMENT GOES UP! and guess what, THE ECONOMY GETS WORSE! So thank you Mr. President, you done a great job in your first 30 days. You’ve saddled future generations with a huge debt, declared that you’re for all intensive purposes going to weaken national security by closing the facility that houses terrorist that want to kill us, and you’ve decided that wealth redistribution and pulling out of Iraq will pay back 1/2 of the debt this country has now taken on. Yeah, great job sir, thanks a pantload!
Obama like Bill Clinton will need a Republican Congress in order to succeed. Just like in a marriage where two people have no financial discipline the couple is doomed to failure and divorce. So the only hope is that an entirely new citizens congress will be elected in 2010. One void of lawyers and PHD’s. Just like George Bush was brought down by a Democratic Congress. As long as evil Harry Reed and the dumbest speaker of the house in American History Nancy Pelosi are in charge, no President will succeed. The media focused for two years on the race for the presidency when in fact the power is in congress.
America will continue to slide into a thirld world country as long as academics continue to fill our bureaucracies and our congress. You would think with all the Sigma Black Belts in business, and PHD’s in government, that the brain trust we all put so much stalk in, would easily solve the world’s problem’s. In fact those who have risen to these levels and are now ashamed of their hard working HS educated blue collar parents and grandparents, are in fact not smart enough to hold to the very values that made us great as a country. Those were the values of God, (attending church and studying of the Bible), hard work, (entrepreneurship), and serving others, (charity helping your neighbor, taking care of ailing parents).
Beware of the accumalation of wealth by the socialist that run our universities. Their goal since the sit ins of the 60’s was to not level the scales of justice as tehy stated, but in fact to tip it to the left. No more free speech is allowed on university campuses where voo doo sciences of evolution, darwinism, global warming, and socialsist economics, are now mainstream; and family values, faith in the Creator, and self reliance are scourned.
The bible says that which we earn that honors God will be blessed and that which we earn without honoring God will disapear like sands in the wind. So when you look at your 401K and it is 59% lower than one year ago you can look to God’s word to find out why
I challange you to read the Bible and our founders from Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Webster and many others and their total faith and reliance on God which was the foundaiton of the blessings to come.
February 22nd, 2009
1:28 pm
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Chellie
January 30th, 2009
12:08 pm
I understand people grieve when their loved ones die. But damn Kanye come back to reality. Your mama is gone, he looks terrible, sounds terrible and acts terrible since his mom died. He is making people not like him or his music anymore. Come back to life Kanye, pray or do something to get back on the right track
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Reese
January 30th, 2009
12:15 pm
Kanye has lost his itty bitty mind. For him to even attempt to put himself on the same level as the GREAT Martin Luther King, Jr. is INSANE. He needs a mentor ASAP!! He is such a LAME, attention-seeking BRAT!!!
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Joe
January 30th, 2009
12:16 pm
This guy is an fn nutjob. His “music” is awful as well. Yet, people continue to feed his ego. Sigh.
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Cooley High
January 30th, 2009
12:41 pm
Why not? Hell, Dexter and the rest of ‘em been trading on his name their whole life
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Ernest Jackson III
January 30th, 2009
12:47 pm
Kanye West (Martin Louis the King Jr.) is excellent at what he does. Understand that most artists build their names from positive people and images. Lets break the name down.
Martin: of course the positive impact that Martin Luther King Jr. had on the public. Louis: Louis Vitton is a brand name that Mr. West enjoys to wear. The King: Mr. West is reigning #1 in his profession. Jr: There were Kings of rap that came before him.I beleive that if we took the time to ask Mr. West, he is intelligent enough to let us know the positive reasons why he changed his name as an artist.
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Cindy
January 30th, 2009
1:19 pm
I cannot stand Kanye West. He has absolutely NO talent. Can’t sing to save his live (or whatever you call what he does). Horrible, Horrible!!!
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Marsha Bond
January 30th, 2009
1:23 pm
Kanye has been haveing “issues” for quite some time now. I really think his issues went into overdrive when his mom passed away. God Bless Him.
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theresa williams
January 30th, 2009
1:39 pm
He is totally off his rocker! He is so full of himself. This is why I can’t stand him!
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Mo's mom
January 30th, 2009
1:45 pm
It’s obvious that Kanye is having a mental breakdown in the aftermath of his mother’s sudden & unexpected death, and the subsequent break-up with his longtime girlfriend.
If he had any realy friends, they’d grab him by the elbow & have a “Eh, bruh come here lemme holla at you for a minute” conversation with him. Then send him to the nearest psychiatric provider for medical assistance.
God bless him.
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kendall meeks
January 30th, 2009
2:10 pm
well first lets say that Kanye is just another thats needs attention and he thinks that he’s all that and isn’t.the sad part is that he doesn’t even know it.no sense in telling him because all he’s going to do is start crying. he’s good for not getting the RESPECT he deserves right, please give me a BREAK.take your A!! somewhere and sit down no cares about your sneakers and we definetly won’t be calling you who,what,why sit down Kanye we are very ,very tired of you
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joseph
January 30th, 2009
2:14 pm
a. Who is this person? I’ve never heard of him. b. And why does he get to make such a smarmy and obvious ref to a truly famous and revered person simply because he’s acting, “like” himself? and c. Who wrote this, a teenager?
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Barry
January 30th, 2009
2:40 pm
It appears Kanye is suffering from Michael Jackson disease. That is a disease where your success goes literalyy to your head. Michael changed his skin color and face and turned into Michele. Now Kanye wants to be “The King”. They both need to really find God and “get real”.
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admin
January 30th, 2009
2:48 pm
Greed is NOT good. No where. Ever
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John
January 30th, 2009
2:49 pm
WHAT A THUG! He is pathetic. Anyone surprised? All rappers need to vanish.
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Chief Wiggum
January 30th, 2009
2:57 pm
He’s an attention-seeker…and he’s apparently getting it with yet another crazy statement. Please ingore him.
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kevin
January 30th, 2009
3:27 pm
you have got to be kidding. what an ego for a typical no talent hack rapper
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Csquared
January 30th, 2009
3:51 pm
he better watch out, the King family got all the copyrights on that.
he might be known as Martin Louis the BrokeAzz prince before it’s all over.
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Erik Voss
January 30th, 2009
4:00 pm
Obama should direct language to be drafted in the future that contains a formula. It would give assistance to bail out a bank that is inversely proportional to average compensation of the executives. OK, admitted that sounds complicated but in essence it is this: The more they pay their executives on average the less they get. Banks that want public money need to cut compensation … that simple. Bank boards generally make such decisions and they need a disincentive plan. To support this, he can ask the finance committees in Congress to use open records rules that share holders (that’s us) of financial institutions to find out the compensation of the executives.
If you as a bank want to survive by getting public money, your and mine, in this slump which they all helped create, then lets devise a formula to force this reality home.
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Harmony
January 30th, 2009
4:06 pm
I am so convinced that something is seriously wrong with him. What in the world kind of drug is he on??? Does he actually believe people will address him as Martin Louis King Jr.???
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Lynn
January 30th, 2009
4:16 pm
Wow – I guess this is a continued publicity stunt. I don’t think he has been right since the death of his mom. Poor guy……………
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Melissa
January 30th, 2009
4:37 pm
Is Kanye’s publicist on vacation or did one of his friends leak a video only meant for friends that would get the joke? This is kind of funny, as he appears a bit intoxicated, but I would hope that he is embarrassed that it out like that… Hmmmm.. counseling might work.
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anastasia beaverhausen
January 30th, 2009
4:42 pm
Kanye West is calling himself Martin Louis the King Jr now – I suppose we’ll be calling him Jesus Christ soon
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Mike
January 30th, 2009
4:46 pm
What do you expect from an idiot who says moronic things like “George Bush doesn’t like black people?”
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carol
January 30th, 2009
4:46 pm
Has anyone forgotten he was in a serious car accident and obviously suffered some type of brain damage, he was strange before his mom passed.
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Notorius Name Changin'
January 30th, 2009
4:48 pm
What’s up with all the hip-hop name changin’? Why can’t people just use the names they mommas gave em’? Are they afraid the outstanding warrants will be easier to serve if they use they real names? Kanye has just gone a little further up his own azz (if that’s even possible).
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Notorius Name Changin'
January 30th, 2009
4:49 pm
Anastasia, naw baby, Obamas’ already got that one.
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why?
January 30th, 2009
4:57 pm
yes he is off his rocker! this is the same dude that said a few weeks ago he wanted “less fans”. so why do people keep buying his music? cuz we all addicted to a little crazy every-now and again! LOL!!!
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LOL
January 30th, 2009
4:59 pm
this man is on some serious anti-depressant drugs. we are just going to have to hope he gets better before its too late. he a prime candidate for other mental issues.
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Uncle Tom
January 30th, 2009
5:15 pm
He is at that stage in life where my grandmother used to say he is “smelling his must.”
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ADAM
February 1st, 2009
4:10 pm
i think its amazing , i am a great fan of kanye sorry Martin lois the king i wish i had his mind
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Mary Carmichael
February 3rd, 2009
9:25 am
I pulled up to the ATM one afternoon to get cash and noticed someone left their card inside the machine and the message on the screen was asking for my next transaction. Someone left their ATM card in the machine and drove off, I immediately pressed the button for no further transactions and retrieved the person’s ATM card, got out of my car and dropped it into the night depository. I have gotten so many comments from people that I mention the story to that they would have done something totally different. I did exactly what I would have expected someone else to do if that had been my ATM card left in the machine. I have no regrets about what I did.
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frank gibbs jr
February 3rd, 2009
9:56 am
It was about 10 pm and i noticed a bank bag lying in the middle of the intersection.I picked it up drove home and when i opened it up there was lots of cash and checks.The checks were made payable to the ronals mcdonald house here in augusta ga.I called the local mcdonalds and returned the money rhight away.There was a fundraiser that night for mcdonald foundation and when the director put the money on her car roof to open her car she drove off the bag fell off.
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February 3rd, 2009
9:57 am
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Dorothy Graham
February 3rd, 2009
10:00 am
I pulled up to the ATM machine and discovered that the person in the car ahead of me had left his card in the machine. I tried to stop him but he continued to drive off. The machine asked do you want to make another transaction? I pressed no and fortunately the bank was still opened for business so I took the card to the teller at the drive through window. I would hope that someone would do the same thing for me.
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cody
February 3rd, 2009
10:36 am
ha. well wel know one man thats not getting any from his wife.
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Jessa
February 3rd, 2009
10:47 am
I’m with you. I skip Valentine’s day every year. I don’t need society to tell my husband to tell me he loves me. Why should he have to shell out $50 on a $20 bouquet of roses? Why should we have to sit in a crowded restaraunt with everyone else who decided it was romantic to go out to dinner this one night of the year? If you are truely in love, you do this any night other than Valentine’s day. We’ll be staying home, cooking dinner, and watching a movie. If he wants to buy me candy, he can go out the day after and buy it on sale.
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innerjuju
February 3rd, 2009
10:58 am
We’ve been nearly 30 years and we avoid Valentine’s Day other than the occasional card- and we might manage to say “Happy Valentine’s Day” if we remember. But I’d bet my marriage against anyone’s. We have coffee in bed together and hold hands every morning, each night we spend together. Why pick one particular day to show someone you care?
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The Anti-Cupid
February 3rd, 2009
11:07 am
I’ve long said a single rose in the middle of July means more than 2 dozen on Valentine’s Day. Women, remember, ANY gift you get on Valentine’s Day is given out of fear not out of true love.
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Donna
February 3rd, 2009
11:16 am
I’ve always thought Valentine’s Day was a silly holiday. I’d rather my sweetie do something special or thoughtful for me on a random day….just because he wanted to. He does that all the time, so I see no need for a specific holiday set aside for it. I’m pleased to see by the other responses that I’m not the only female that thinks this way. Among my many girlfriends I’m an oddity, but thats ok with me, my sweetie’s guy friends are envious, lol.
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Bailey
February 3rd, 2009
11:19 am
Another reason to skip Valenbtine’s Day:
It is darn depressing when you are not with someone at the time.
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kevin
February 3rd, 2009
11:26 am
after sammy hagar left van halen.that next album really sucked.
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good woman
February 3rd, 2009
11:29 am
my ex-boyfriend that was my fiancee cheated on me with 2 other women!Not only that, he married one of them and he did have the balls to tell me.I found out from his 8yrold niece.They chose that date so he wouldn’t back out. But on the day of her shower he called me. After they got married , 11 days later he came to me saying that he made a big mistake.Not my favorite day but thats ok. Because he’s been cheating on her for all of their marriage. By the way she was best friends with his ex-girlfriend!They deserve one another.
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kevin
February 3rd, 2009
11:38 am
adam, grow up…. punk
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Operman1
February 3rd, 2009
12:09 pm
Valentine’s Day is just a useless “holiday”. Thank God I do not have anyone to “celebrate” this with. Women of today are not worth my time and effort. They are too materialistic and think too much of themselves.
Thay only have one thing to offer me and it ain’t worth all the pain and suffering. Where are the women who are true companions?
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Sarah B
February 3rd, 2009
12:32 pm
No Donna, you are not alone – I have always thought Valentines day was stupid once over the age of about 20. It is for children and young people who are trying to get a foot in the door. I was always mad when someone I was serious with especially my husband would do something for me on Valentines Day. It is a huge waste of money and rather insulting to know that they need to be told by the radio and TV to show affection. Suprise me in September.
Sarah B
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Sarah B
February 3rd, 2009
12:35 pm
Operman1, sounds like we might get along…
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Shelley
February 3rd, 2009
12:49 pm
You just try it and let me know how it works for you.
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Shelley's Husband
February 3rd, 2009
1:00 pm
I thought sending this article to my wife was a good idea at the time. Not so sure now…
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Secure In Myself
February 3rd, 2009
1:09 pm
Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Secretary’s Day, Mailman’s Day, Dog Groomer’s Day, Gay’s and Lesbian’s Day, and Valentine’s Day are all PHONEY Hallmark holidays created out of greed by greeting card companies and flower growers and candy companies and jewelry stores to bilk the masses out of their hard-earned money. And I don’t have to be “with someone” to enjoy my life everyday. LET’S BOYCOTT ALL THESE MADE-UP HOLIDAYS.
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red
February 3rd, 2009
1:15 pm
I would love to forget Valentines day. Again, it’s just plain silly when you think about it. But for some reason I cannot get my husband to forget it. Every year he insists on buying me $60 roses and taking me out to some overpriced restaurant. Last year it was roses, an hour at spa sydell and lunch at Fogo De Chao. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy/ed every valentines day and how special he made it for me. But I felt he overspent on all of them. He reminds me of a child when he eagerly hands me those $60 roses and waits for my expression. I just start thinking “Darn baby, we could have use this money for something special that we could both enjoy together”.
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TS
February 3rd, 2009
1:38 pm
It’s too bad V-day has been reduced to a day that men have to impress women. Aside from a very young crowd or perhaps the very early stages of dating, shouldn’t it be reciprocal if it’s going to be observed? Years ago, a single girlfriend and I got together for dinner on V-day. I arrived early so I killed some time in a retail store just down from the restaurant. I watched a man VISIBLY AGONIZE over what would be the “perfect” gift. It made my heart ache and I promised myself that I would never do that to a man. Women – you’ll do your man a huge favor and possibly even make your relationship stronger, if you either let him off the hook completely or set him up to win with you in a manner that is attainable for him. I’m married now and my husband and I discuss what, if anything, WE want to do for V-day. This year we are taking each other (yes, we are splitting the cost) to Cirque du Soleil. We were purchasing tickets anyway so it wasn’t an additional expense. We chose V-day because we thought it would be fun and it worked with his travel schedule.
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WrapTheRap
February 3rd, 2009
1:41 pm
Music died the day the first rap/hip-hop song was recorded.
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This Guy
February 3rd, 2009
1:42 pm
Shelley’s husband, you should do something special this upcoming weekend instead of Valentine’s Day, just to mess with her head. It probably won’t work seeing as how she might be reading this though. Good luck either way my friend, she sounds like a hand full. P.S. You might not want to make a specific resopnse to me.
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Wes
February 3rd, 2009
1:44 pm
Music died when Kurt Cobain died back in April of 1994. And current MTV programming disgusts me and makes me wanna put a bullet through my head as well.
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ADL
February 3rd, 2009
1:49 pm
Sounds like good woman @11:29 is free this year.
This crap never ceases to amaze me. Kay Jewelers starts their commercials before Thanksgiving and runs them until Easter saying we men are asses if we don’t get her diamonds for Christmas, Valentine’s, etc. To hell with them and Hallmark.
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Chief Wiggum
February 3rd, 2009
1:51 pm
It died in 1983. That was when rock and roll started adding too many synthesizers. Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon…heck, even Van Halen added them the next year.
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gagirl
February 3rd, 2009
1:51 pm
^^^Racist. So now rap/hip-hop isn’t considered music?? That’s okay. Just as long as you know that rock and roll is rooted in R&B……
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Leon
February 3rd, 2009
1:51 pm
When Springsteen released “Boring The USA”
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Macca
February 3rd, 2009
1:53 pm
December 8, 1980
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Chris
February 3rd, 2009
1:54 pm
When American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson went to #1. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show. But, when we were young we weren’t about to go run out and buy any albums force-fed to us from the producers of “Star Search”.
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pbear
February 3rd, 2009
1:55 pm
gagirl, since when is not liking rap/hip-hop racist? do black people own this music? some of us whites like it too
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Who Cares?
February 3rd, 2009
1:55 pm
R&B and American Roots Music proudly gave birth to Rock ‘N Roll. The afterbirth became rap and hip-hop.
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Marty
February 3rd, 2009
2:00 pm
The music dies in the 70’s. What happened??? We need more like The Eagles, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Rolling Stones, The Who. Give me Rock & Roll!!
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nikki
February 3rd, 2009
2:02 pm
Never died. In my heart always
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lax3
February 3rd, 2009
2:02 pm
awww dat is not kool
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Jade the Joker
February 3rd, 2009
2:03 pm
When the Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, and High School Musical became top-selling albums. XP
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Randy Terrell
February 3rd, 2009
2:05 pm
When the “heavy metal” era began, it brought the music to its knees. MTV changed the focus from the lyris/music to the video. Rap and hip hop killed it off completely
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itpdude
February 3rd, 2009
2:09 pm
It never died. There’s always good new music being made. It’s that much of it is not on pop radio. When is the last time you heard Willie Nelson on the radio? Or Bob Dylan? Both are still making great new music. However, their new stuff is rarely played on terrestrial radio.
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Tim-mah!
February 3rd, 2009
2:10 pm
There are certain ‘lulls’ when the feeling goes away, but it has to be when the brain-surgery left me less than excited to listen to most anything.
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Shelley
February 3rd, 2009
2:10 pm
Men or women, what’s the big deal? If your significant other considers this a special day, what does it hurt to use this day (in addition to others) to meet her expectations for this day and show her how much you love her? As for you, This Guy, it wouldn’t mess with my head if my husband uses this weekend to do something special, but it might mess with his when he has trouble coming up with something special two weekends in a row.
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BC
February 3rd, 2009
2:11 pm
Racist because they don’t like Rap? Get a life. You are paranoid. I don’t like various types of music, and rap is one. So is acid rock, and a good bit of Country. If I don’t like Country Music, what does that mean? If I don’t like classical what does that mean? Besides, what color is Eminem? Vanilla Ice? You don’t own it, and yes, there some white people that like Rap. Some don’t – just like any other type of music…..
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LydiasDad
February 3rd, 2009
2:11 pm
When hip hop and gangster rap replaced original rap (Run DMC and LL Cool J).
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MrJimmy
February 3rd, 2009
2:11 pm
It didn’t die. You just need to look for it in the right places. You are not going to find it on MTV, American Idol or most FM radio stations.
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Formerly Known as Prince Fan
February 3rd, 2009
2:16 pm
Music got terminally ill when Prince changed his name to that symbol, and finally succumbed when he “found religion” and became too preachy.
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Zack
February 3rd, 2009
2:17 pm
The music died after the 80’s. The 90’s was all about videos and appearances. Bring back the 80’s!
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Brooke
February 3rd, 2009
2:22 pm
when Madonna lip-locked Brittany on MTV!
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B Boy
February 3rd, 2009
2:29 pm
Hip Hop died when 2pac and Biggie got killed(96-97). Music in General is still very much alive which is why you have a lot of “hybrid” music and sub-genres. “Singing rappers/Rap and Rock Mashups”. The traditional jazz artist has faded some while “Neo-Soul” is a mixture of jazz and r & b and soul music.
Bottom line music still lives…but in different forms.
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Ruby
February 3rd, 2009
2:44 pm
12/8/1980 When John Lennon was killed
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Cindy
February 3rd, 2009
2:45 pm
Music for me stopped when it became less about the music itself, and became more about MONEY.
I think today’s music is horrible. I can’t stand anything from the 90’s, and will put up with 80’s music. The 70’s and before, THAT was music.
I don’t know how you can call gangsta rap music? It’s just a bunch of noise as far as I’m concerned. There is absolutely NOTHING artistic about rap.
Give me Dylan, Cream, Yardbirds, etc ANY DAY.
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blkshephered
February 3rd, 2009
2:46 pm
after 1989. that was the last year of good music. 1990 to the present has no substance and just absolutely horriable. the 90s was nothing but sampling and make overs. Rap music steals from R&B and Rock and Roll. I have heard many rap songs sample from rock and rolls songs like “True” Sailing, as well as soul hits like ..Good Times, countless James brown beats, even John Legend got a grammy Stealing the music from Stormy to create Save Love which a direct rip off.
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80s Still Rule
February 3rd, 2009
2:50 pm
The music was killed my a Flock of Seagulls, after crap like that started becoming popular it was all down hill from there.
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Sandy
February 3rd, 2009
2:50 pm
It died when Michael Stipe’s singing became comprehensible.
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Uncle Tom
February 3rd, 2009
2:54 pm
It died the first time back when Michael Jackson saw the man in the mirror and “changed.”
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ChevyLevy
February 3rd, 2009
2:55 pm
It died when Tom Petty started sounding like Bob Dylan.
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Fred
February 3rd, 2009
2:55 pm
I suspect that if each commenter above did a little self-examination, you would find that whatever the death event specified, it happened when you were between 30 and 35. Like most 55 year olds, I have a couple of hundred “records” and CDs recorded before 1985 and a couple of dozen recorded since then. While I would like to think that the music of my youth was the best ever (it was!), I fear that everyone feels that way and you’ll never win the argument.
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OffMyLawn
February 3rd, 2009
2:55 pm
Music never died for me. There are lots of indie musicians out there that puts ‘pop’ music to shame. Mainstream music died in the mid 90’s for me. Rap became angry obscenity laced garbage. Rock became this Cobain-ish emo garbage. Country sold its soul to image. Rave music started playing in more clubs. Pop/R&B became so darned canned that a hamster’s flatulence sounded better.
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still blastin
February 3rd, 2009
2:56 pm
No matter what you like, it’s out there and better than ever. Just open your eyes and look around.
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JT
February 3rd, 2009
2:56 pm
Music, to me, died when the classifications changed. They call these new artists r&b, they aren’t r&b!! R&B was signified by supreme vocal talent, i.e. Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, James Ingram, Gladys Knight, etc..and i’m not hatin’ on these new cats, Omarion, Chris Brown, etc., but they ARE NOT r&b but they couldn’t hold a candle to any of the real singers from back then!! The lyrics of the song were another factor, it’s why they are all sampling the music from back then, because the lyrics had substance and are timeless.
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Jai
February 3rd, 2009
2:57 pm
The day that money trumped artistry
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joaobass
February 3rd, 2009
3:00 pm
For me personally, it died when James Brown died.
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Whiny Kid
February 3rd, 2009
3:00 pm
Music died when my “Close ‘n’ Play” stopped working.
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orangesux
February 3rd, 2009
3:01 pm
when Stevie Ray’s plane went down.
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Frank
February 3rd, 2009
3:05 pm
The day Z-93 died. When there was no more John Young, Dale O’Brien, Randy Reeves and Lindsey!
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Lee Raines
February 3rd, 2009
3:05 pm
It died for me with the beginning of rock ‘n roll, and that death accelerated with the introduction of songs that glorified immorality and profane lifestyles. It died a second death with senseless, violent rap music. Another factor that has accelerated my extreme dislike for today’s music is evident everytime an “artist sings” (butchers) our beloved national anthem at public events.
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David
February 3rd, 2009
3:06 pm
Rock is not dead. It is getting better and better. Linkin Park, Seether, Flyleaf, 10 Years, Bullet for my Valentine, AFI, Nightwish….
The music of today makes me feel younger. Although I grew up in the 70s and 80s, listening to that music makes me feel old. Move on!!! Adapt!!! You might feel younger too.
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Jonathan Crane
February 3rd, 2009
3:14 pm
When Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
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Ben
February 3rd, 2009
3:14 pm
OffMyLawn, I’m with you. Music has never been more alive for me. Wake up people. Go find it for yourself. Don’t be spoon fed by MTV, top 40 radio, or whatever else on tv. There are SO many outlets for new music since the advent of the internet. You just have to look for it. Go buy an independent music rag and find something new. Heck, for Atlantans, we have a vibrant music scene right in our own backyard that is currently producing fantastic music. Everything from rock to hip hip to singer/songwriter fare to country. I’m 34 and I hope I never lose the urge to discover new artists.
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80's fan
February 3rd, 2009
3:19 pm
After 1990.
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Stonoguy
February 3rd, 2009
3:20 pm
When Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed & Madonna was put in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!!! When did she ever make a rock ‘n’ roll record???!!
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JASon
February 3rd, 2009
3:21 pm
In retrospect, the day Emerson, Lake, and Palmer posed on the beach marked the end of the greatest era of music in history: classic progressive rock. ELP, King Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and many others produced some of the most meaningful, existential, and altogether beautiful pieces of music that have ever been created.
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clwood
February 3rd, 2009
4:22 pm
Music cried when Buddy died, but the nails were put in the coffin on 12/8/80 when John was murdered, then the nails were hammered in and the coffin put in the ground when George joined John. The good world will end when Paul is lost.
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Tom
February 3rd, 2009
4:56 pm
October 20, 1977. RIP Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Lee Brown
February 3rd, 2009
5:05 pm
Gagirl, on the post below is a joke. Has to turn this into racism. (Guess who’s black and hypersensitive about her color?)
Buddy Holly was just at the start of rock and roll, but folks, he wasn’t Elvis. Elvis was, and remains, the King.
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Lee Brown
February 3rd, 2009
5:06 pm
Woops! The way they post these, Gagirl is one of the first posts, at the top of the page.
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J.W.
February 3rd, 2009
5:45 pm
The music was dead well before 12/08/80 although that was a very sad day. The music actually died when the Eagles had their first hit.
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Sissy
February 3rd, 2009
6:10 pm
The 70’s for sure!
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Jim
February 3rd, 2009
7:49 pm
One mention of Lynyrd Skynyrd.(Thanks Tom) No mention of Duane Allman. I thought this was the south
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Bubba
February 3rd, 2009
7:51 pm
At least a piece of it died on December 10, 1967, in a field outside Madison, Wis., when Georgia’s native son Otis Redding died in a plane crash. Otis was not as influential — yet — as Buddy Holly, but he was just venturing outside of deep soul into new territory. He had just recorded Dock of the Bay, his only No. 1 hit, which was released after he died. He had much great work ahead of him, but we’ll never know what might have been.
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Mark
February 4th, 2009
3:45 pm
Music never dies, tho rap and hip hop smell that way.
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Kelly
February 5th, 2009
12:46 pm
Happy Birthday Hank! I grew up watching you and many other baseball legends play at Fulton County Stadium. You will always be one of THE best baseball players of all time! If we could only go back in time – I miss watching you play the wonderful game of baseball.
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Ms. Cassandra Riggins
February 5th, 2009
1:05 pm
You are the greatest! Happy Birthaday to you, and I wish you many,many more.
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DAN CORTEZ
February 5th, 2009
1:08 pm
HANK; HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I’VE BEEN A HUGE FAN SINCE YOUR MILWAUKEE BRAVE DAYS. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CLASS ACT. WISH YOU THE BEST TODAY. THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DONE AND WHAT YOU TAUGHT EVERYONE. BEST WISHES
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Kevin Taylor
February 5th, 2009
1:26 pm
To Henry Aaron,
I’ve been a fan of yours for 37 years now (from a seven year old to a forty four year old). Of all of the great athletes that I’ve been blessed to have seen perform in every major and college sport, you are my favorite. You are the athlete par excellence and you will always be the True Home Run King in my heart and the hearts of millions of baseball fans everywhere. I love you Hank and may God bless you and your wife with a great life going forward.
Kevin Taylor,
A Hank Aaron fan for life
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Craig Taylor
February 5th, 2009
1:30 pm
Happy Birthday, Mr. Aaron! You are the greatest to ever play the game and an even better human being. Unfortunately, your humility and graciousness has prevented you from receiving all the credit you deserve. However, your standard of how to play the game may be a greater legacy. Thank You for being you!
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Tom Norris
February 5th, 2009
1:51 pm
Hank, you’ve always been one of my heros. You played when baseball was a REAL sport, not like what it is today. Whenever I think of baseball, I think of you first. There have been very few like you in the past decades – the men that played for the sake of the sport. You’re the greatest!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, a bit belated!!
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Tom Gordon
February 5th, 2009
1:54 pm
Hank, Best wishes to you and your Loved ones on this Special Day,Your day!! I followed your Career as a youngster in Massachusetts as you set High Standards for Yourself and Baseball. Thank you for all the Special Moments you gave us all as Fans of the Great Game!! Happiest of Birthdays !! Best Regards, Tom Gordon
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Paula Beckham
February 5th, 2009
2:03 pm
Happy Birthday to one of my first heroes! As a little girl growing up in the south, I’m thankful that I wasn’t exposed to very much racism. Reading how you were treated in your early professional days…and how you reacted to it…ensured my lack of prejudice would be permanent. Thinking of it still brings tears to my eyes. But thinking of all the joy you brought me makes my smile even brighter, tho’ it could never be as bright as yours! Blessings to you always and in all ways.
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Melody Dilworth Biederman
February 5th, 2009
2:11 pm
Hank,
It’s an honor to share my birthday with you. You epitomize the type of athlete I want my 9 year old son to be. I am happy he calls you his favorite baseball player. Hope your birthday is as happy as mine!
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Angela Palmer-Vaughn
February 5th, 2009
2:11 pm
Happy Birthday Mr. Aaron. You are a true hero. I am from Mobile, Alabama, and proud to be so.
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Amy
February 5th, 2009
2:13 pm
Happy Birthday, Mr. Aaron! Thank you for everything you have done for the Braves organization and Major League Baseball.
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Joe Grimes
February 5th, 2009
3:03 pm
Wait, today *is* the 5th, so Tom’s wishes weren’t belated! haha
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr Aaron!!
I remember going to a game or two when the Braves were still up north. Baseball was magic back then!
Thanks for all the wonderful things you’ve contributed to the sport – and many cheers for all your records that even these *new* guys can’t match!!
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Craig Taylor
February 5th, 2009
4:26 pm
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alan from Atlanta GA.
February 5th, 2009
5:04 pm
Happy Birthday Mr. Aaron. You will always be the home run king. I remember watching you at Ebbets Field when I was younger and you were always a great natural hitter.
Many more Birthdays.
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David Walker
February 5th, 2009
6:07 pm
Happy Birthday Hank! Hope you have many more! I only got to see you play once in ‘66. I think it was the 3rd game ever played at Fulton county stadium.
Youll always be the homerun king in my eyes. You played the game the way it was meant to be played. Your perserverance should be an inspiration for all.
Now go help Frank Wren build another championship! Have a piece of cake for me.
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David Muschler
February 5th, 2009
6:35 pm
Henry, I am a huge Cub fan but you were always one of my favorites. What a delight it was to watch you and Ernie on the field at the same time. Thank you for coming to the unveiling of Ernie’s statue at Wrigley Field (long overdue). You made a great occasion that much more special. Thank you for representing what is right about this great game. Very sincerely, David Muschler
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joe
February 5th, 2009
9:37 pm
Thanks, Hank. I named my older son after you! I followed you since 1957 when I was six, and there are thousands more who were affected by your quiet dignity and your consistent excellence.
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Tom Conn
February 5th, 2009
11:01 pm
Hank, I’m not old enough to remember you playing, but growing up in ATL I’ve long been fascinated by your career and life, I remember reading books about you in the library in grade school, even did a book report on you. I hope to one day have the pleasure of meeting and talking with you. You’ve always been one of the true “good guys” in sport. Have a happy birthday, and a good many more.
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Sugar
February 6th, 2009
10:04 am
Definately a hand written, mailed card.
E-cards are tacky and just scream laziness.
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Lisa
February 6th, 2009
10:44 am
Happy Birthday, Mr. Henry Aaron. You’re still the home run king in my book.
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Danny
February 6th, 2009
11:01 am
Dear Mr. Aaron,
Happy Birthday Home Run King. You are the greatest player in my book. How important it was to sit on the floor with my Dad and check the line score for your numbers of the night before (much more important than the fate of the game). “What did Henry do last night?” Thank the Lord I was there for 715 with my childhood friend Bob (and his Mom). You played the game so easily like it was a game, and of course your loping trot we got to see so often with the continual homers. You were and are such a gentleman. I am always proud to say you are my favorite player!
I wish you many many more happy birthdays with your family and friends,
Danny
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Andrew
February 6th, 2009
11:17 am
Keep swingin’ Mr. Aaron. You are still the best of baseball.
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TC Daniel
February 6th, 2009
1:47 pm
YOU are the Home Run King!
I was there and saw it from way up top Atlanta Stadium.
I wish you could sign my poster!
I wish you many more birthdays and good health!
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Thomas
February 6th, 2009
2:08 pm
I can remember my Dad taking me to the Fulton County Stadium in 1967. It was one of the greatest moments of my life to watch Legends play ball. Your cards were cherished by young collectors in the 60’s. Thanks Mr. Aaron for the many memories and Happy Birthday. May God Bless you and your Family.
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David
February 7th, 2009
10:04 am
If you are in time group 3 or higher, be prepared to walk more than run. Running with that many people tends to resemble a hazardous obstacle course rather than a road race. Also because of the human density it with be significantly hotter than the posted temp because of all those bodies…drink that water!
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Jon
February 7th, 2009
12:43 pm
I am in time group 1A or sub seeded. If you bandit and jump in the race in front of me, prepare to be knocked down. Bandits are scum.
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sowah
February 7th, 2009
12:52 pm
Words of encouragement for Michael Phelps by Peter Tosh!
Legalize It & I will advertise it! Because it is not a drug anyway! Because its just like when you go to the grocery store to buy some vegetables. Its gifted from God but they don’t sell it at the store. They don’t want us to stay focused. But they use it.
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Rrachel
February 7th, 2009
3:52 pm
Train ahead of time and be polite to those who are more experienced than you. Please keep to the right, if you are slower. If you are new to running, hydrate at every water station. Try not to throw down water bottles in a way that trip other runners. Most of all – have fun. The Peachtree is not a “serious” race unless you are in group 1 or 2.
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Luci
February 8th, 2009
6:30 pm
With RAP and HIP HOP
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Nancy Wheeler
February 9th, 2009
5:35 pm
Hi Hank – I work with Yvonne Kennedy-Harris and she was telling me about your great party that her parents attended. I do remember when you played for the Braves although by brother was the one who went to the games with our dad. Thank you for all the great baseball momments. Always a fan…
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Turd Ferguson
February 10th, 2009
12:32 pm
When Milli Vanilli admitted to lip singing…I still hurt deep down
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V
February 10th, 2009
2:20 pm
Phil Carey stole every scene he was in on the show. He will be missed.
Asa’s wedding to Alex was really memorable. I also loved his relationships with Max, Tina and Dorian.
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Susan
February 11th, 2009
9:01 am
I was a Girl Scout, and we sold our own. Of course our parents, family and friends bought a box or two, but basically, we went out door to door and did our own selling. If you do the selling for the child, what are you teaching them? That someone else will always pick up the slack for them? As an adult, no one is going to do that for them. If the child doesn’t do the selling themselves, they learn nothing.
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Clay
February 11th, 2009
9:03 am
I have no problem with Girl Scout Cookies. The money goes to a good cause. Plus, they’re cheap. They cost $3.50. When someone presents you with a GS order form, buy a box. It’s only $3.50. Don’t tell then you bought 12 boxes from the girl across the street or that your niece/grandaughter is a Girl Scout. Buy a box. It’s $3.50. Instead of buying 12 boxes from the first person who asks and then telling everyone else “I just bought 12 boxes from Janie” you buy a box or two from everyone who asks.
No, I do not have a daughter selling cookies. It’s a good cause.
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sd
February 11th, 2009
9:10 am
I buy them and then just open the box and leave them in our break room. Too bad girl scouts don’t sell anything healthy. I’d buy lots of Girl Scout fresh Produce or something.
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Shawn
February 11th, 2009
9:12 am
Well I LOVE girl scout cookies so I don’t mind when adults ask me to buy a box. However I do understand that by doing that the CHILD learns NOTHING. Now if the child is selling and the parent is also selling then I see no problem.
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Becky
February 11th, 2009
9:12 am
I have no problems with parents selling them at work..Yes, the kids still need to know that they have to sell also, but with all of the kooks out there, kids can’t go door to door selling like I used to..
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David
February 11th, 2009
9:19 am
Although we help with friends and/or relatives not in town, we encourge our daughter to sell the cookies hereself. This teaches responsibility and accountability for your sales.
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Maya
February 11th, 2009
9:21 am
The music died when “fans”/snobs/scholars began proclaiming it so. But true music fans know the music will never die, no genre can claim superiority over another, and nothing can measure it’s value.
By the way, hip-hop’s origins and evolution show and have proven it’s value to music. To pooh-pooh it is to show how out of touch and close-minded you are. (That’s also what draws young people to it.)
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Tiny
February 11th, 2009
9:22 am
I personally love Girl Scout cookies and will buy a box or two from children who are selling them. However, I think it is ridiculous for the parents to sell them. What sort of lesson does the child learn? Either the child learns nothing, or he/she learns that they don’t have to be responsible for anything because the parent will pick up the slack.
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TJW
February 11th, 2009
9:23 am
Depends on how its done. One of the dad’s here brought the order form in and just left it on the table in the break room for anyone interested. I have no problem with that approach. However, going cube to cube pestering people I would consider inappropriate.
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Aubrey
February 11th, 2009
9:28 am
My boss used to just bring the order sheet in and leave it on a table and if anyone wanted some they could sign up. No pressure and it was a nice way to get cookies if you didn’t otherwise know anyone.
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Kris
February 11th, 2009
9:29 am
I don’t have a problem with Girl Scout cookies at work. I look forward to them each year. I would rather help my kids sell them than have my kids go door to door. Door to Door selling could be dangerous for kids in this day and age.
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Clydesmom
February 11th, 2009
9:30 am
I will buy plenty of boxes as long as the GIRL SCOUT is the one doing the selling. I DO NOT buy from adults. The whole point of the fundraiser is that the girls learn civic responsiblity. What do they learn when their parents do it for them? It’s not safe to send them out on their own: I hear that. Then staff a booth outside a local store. Call your neighbors. Just don’t expect me to coddle your kid because you think they should reap the reward without the work.
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Juliane
February 11th, 2009
9:31 am
I have my daughter write the note in her own words for selling cookies at the office. I then post it on the company board or send it out as an email. My daughter also does selling to the neighbors we know. Like so many things with kids it becomes a huge contest as in order to receive a patch they have to sell 125 boxes. THe next piece of crap they have to sell 175 boxes! Of course the top prize is an Ipod which all the little girls want but its well over 275 boxes! Does that not give incentive for parents to push selling cookies at work so they can get a prize? I would rather they not give them anything like the older days and they earn a patch for selling any amount of cookies.
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Move on Up
February 11th, 2009
9:31 am
I think it is time for the Girl Scouts get with the times. Instead of having them stand outside Lowes to sell cookies they need to be taking orders and have them shipped to the house. That way the girls will have to learn there selling skills to help them later in life.
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Rip Off
February 11th, 2009
9:32 am
$3.50? My co-worker has been selling them for $4.00! Where’s the extra 50 cents going?
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Nan
February 11th, 2009
9:34 am
No. It’s a good cause, but when you sell the cookies at work it’s not the kid selling them, it’s the parents.
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Juliane
February 11th, 2009
9:34 am
Rip Off…yes they should be selling for 3.50
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Kathy
February 11th, 2009
9:35 am
Having your parents bring the form to work doesn’t mean the girls aren’t seelling too. I brought the order form in and left in in the break room with a note of who it was for and what we were doing with the money. That way no one felt pressured to buy, only if they wanted to. My daughter herself sold more boxes than I did bringing the form to work. We don’t live in subdivision and going door to door these days isn’t all that safe. They by rule MUST have an adult with them anyway so really we are selling with them no matter how you look at it. Plus, Girl Scouts now do booth sales at local businesses and that is when the girls really get to learn. The have to sell them, collect the money etc.
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David
February 11th, 2009
9:37 am
GS cookies are cheap and really tasty. Selling cookies for your child is fine as long as the child comes in first to make the initial hawk. Have her go around asking folks to pleeeeeeeeease buy cookies, then they can just see Mom or Dad to fill the order. I doubt this is going to have any everlasting negative effects on the child.
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Sugar
February 11th, 2009
9:38 am
We are not allowed so sell stuff here at work. There is no pressure to buy anything from anyone. If you buy from one co-worker’s kid, you have to do it for everyone else’s kid. So we just have a policy.
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Pizen
February 11th, 2009
9:38 am
I despise people who attempt to sell Girl Scout cookies at work. In fact, we successfully lobbied management to ban the practice. We’re bombarded constantly with requests for us to buy products and services – can’t we get a bit of relief from that while we’re at work?
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Kathy
February 11th, 2009
9:38 am
Juliane – Actually troops can elect to do “no prize” selling and actually get more money per box by doing it this way. I agree with you which is why next year, that is what my troop is doing.
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Poetic
February 11th, 2009
9:38 am
We have an employee who faithfully every year walks her daughter around the office, to everyone’s desk or office dressed in her Girl Scouts uniform asking you to buy cookies. Of course, no one can tell the little girl no. It also takes away from other employees who are trying to sell cookies for their daughters. I think that is way too much pressure to get someone to buy Girl Scout cookies. It’s gotten to the point where some people run and hide when they see her coming down the hall.
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Dan
February 11th, 2009
9:39 am
I sell for my daughter at work and I am a very popular man when that time rolls around. The people who buy from me at work know they are helping not only my daughter, but her entire troop earn money for activities for the year. I’m confident in my parenting skills and I believe the message my daughter gets from this is that daddy is there to help and support her as she tries to reach her goals. She still sells door to door and to family, i’m just there to boost sales so that everyone benefits.
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Jessica
February 11th, 2009
9:41 am
I don’t have kids, but I wouldn’t take that into the workplace. I honestly can’t stand whenever a coworker comes to me selling something for their child. I have enough bills and don’t have time for that nonsense.
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susan
February 11th, 2009
9:42 am
I used to buy from parents at work, but stopped buying anything, or selling anything a couple of years ago. I have a 9 year old daughter and it is ridiculous the number of fundraisers that go on all year long between daycare, school and other activities. As some of the prior people posted, it does not teach a child anything if the parent does all of the work – I especially am opposed to the “incentives”(junk prizes) to sell more – that just leads to kids trying to get their parents to sell more. I will buy GS cookies from kids who actually sell them. I DO NOT do the “sally foster” fundraisers – I write a check to the PTA for $50.00 – which is the same as selling $100.00 worth of stuff people don’t want. I DO allow my daughter to participate in “booster runs” where SHE finds people to sponsor her and they pay for every lap she runs – because she is doing the work.
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Kathy
February 11th, 2009
9:43 am
“The whole point of the fundraiser is that the girls learn civic responsiblity.”
Really? The whole point is not to teach “civic responsibility”. Yes, that’s part of it but the other part is to raise money SO THEY CAN DO CIVIC projects. Part of our money this year is going to help our local food pantry which is in major need of help. Our girls know this and sell some on their own and some at the parent’s work. Selling cookies doesn’t teach them civic responsibility..going to nursing homes..working at food pantries…cleaning up the local park…helping fellow Girl Scouts in need…is what teaches them this.
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Marsha
February 11th, 2009
9:45 am
In another place and time I was a Girl Scout and my Mom was the Cookie Drive Chairman. We sold door to door in our small town. I would be afraid for my daughter to go out door to door in a metropolitan area to sell the cookies. There are too many dangerous people out there that we are not aware of that could hurt our children. I am personally pleased to see parents at least attempting to be involved. I know the scout troops hold a training to assist these girls in knowing how to sell the cookies and all of them, I am sure do their part. The parents are just helping out. I just placed an order for my Trefoils and Thin Mints with a co-worker last week. Can’t wait for the delivery!
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Kathy
February 11th, 2009
9:47 am
Dan…great post!
Poetic…My daughter went door to door in her uniform at my husband’s high school one afternoon. It was amazing how many she sold that way. She loved it!
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lovelyliz
February 11th, 2009
9:49 am
When my niece was in the Girl Socuts (2007 & 2008) my boss was nice enough to let me put the sign up sheet in the break room. Ditto for her Mother and that’s as far as either of us cared to go. I’ve work places where people hawked things for their kids to the point that bordered on stalking.
Besides, having parents and other family members sell the cookies (or whatever else) at work teaches the child absolutely nothing other than they can get the benefits with out doing the work.
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Toni
February 11th, 2009
9:49 am
Clay: It’s ridiculous to buy a box or two from EVERYone who asks. We’re in a recession & no, I don’t like feeling pressed at work about it. I think a person should be allowed to put up a flyer on the bulletin board stating who is selling & IF I want them, I know who to go to.
It’s not rude to tell someone I have bought too many already. There is no obligation. $3.50 is a lot of money for their small box that gets smaller every year. Do you spend $3.50 on a box at the grocery store? I don’t. People have had to cut their spending, including their grocery bill.
I might support with one box from someone I know, but don’t tell me I’m wrong for not buying from everybody and yes, I do think it’s wrong to have the boss press me. That’s a conflict of interest especially since when my kid sells stuff for their SCHOOL, they don’t buy! You’re not going to tell me Girl Scouts is more important than our kids schools.
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susan
February 11th, 2009
9:53 am
the work selling wouldn’t be so bad in a small office with one or two parents, but I work in an office with over 100 women at least half of which have children or grand children they solicit for – can you imagine if we all brought our children in for the “personal” touch? Or if you had 50 fundraisers posted on a board somewhere? it’s just not conducive to the work environment.
As for the kids selling door to door? If an adult goes with them there isn’t a risk – and if the neighborhood isn’t a good one – go to another one – people do it every year for halloween!
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Parents should not sell cookies for girlscouts
February 11th, 2009
9:57 am
Parents should not sell cookies for their girscout (s). What about the girlscouts who really are working hard to sell for the incentives. It is totally unfair to the Girlscout who is truly working hard on Saturday mornings at the grocery store – so to just give the order sheet to the parent to take to work and spread around to co-workers is simply not right!
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Toni
February 11th, 2009
9:57 am
Susan: Excellent comment! It gets tiring & people eventually run the other way when they see you coming since most people have kids and in my case, I have 3 so imagine my 3 and every other persons kid having their parent sell at work. It’s getting out of hand.
I personally do not do fundraisers anymore since on average my kids school sends home at least 8 a year (8 x 3 = 24). Imagine 24 times a year in 10 months begging people to buy?!?!?
Now for the economic part of it. This is in addition to the school asking for money, $5.00 movies for each child to raise money at school, smoothies $2.00 each, supply extra school supplies, sanitizer, tissue, $15.00 field trips for first grade, ***this is a doozy, high school $20 field trip & $10 for gas for the SCHOOL bus (listed on the permission slip) & I pay taxes***
My kids know, straight in the house and drop the fundraiser materials in the trash (oh, recycling bin, there. They’ve given back). I’ve told the teachers not to send it but they try anyway.
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W. Eliz
February 11th, 2009
9:58 am
I hate to be pressured – however, I rather buy from the mom at the office than have a child harmed by a pervert in the community going door to door
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John
February 11th, 2009
9:59 am
There is no problem as no pressure is applied. The people in our office leave sheets in the break room and send out an inter office e-mail that the product is available, the cost, and the purpose. Some things like Girl Scout cookies, popcorn, Sally Foster, candles, barbecue tickets and candy bars sell well. Some of the overpriced junk doesn’t. I would much rather it be done that way then to deal with a child coming to my door or coming around the office or being “assaulted” by children selling in front of Walmart or Shriners and others disrupting traffic with their buckets or people calling me at night on the telephone. A lot of people bought Girl Scout cookies through me when my daughter was that age. The year after she finished Girl Scouts, nobody sold the cookies in our office. We had a lot of upset employees that year because they weren’t sold.
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The Truth
February 11th, 2009
10:01 am
Kathy, I hate when people bring girl scout cookies to work and church its just inappropriate. Most of us feel pressured to support a practice that really should be intiated by the young people the practice was set up to nurture. If the workplace would set a policy it may get us all off the hook for the next girl scount cycle.
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Angelica
February 11th, 2009
10:14 am
I was approached at work, but in a unique way. The Girl Scout herself sent me an email asking me to buy. She also offered the option, if I were concerned about health, of buying a box and donating it to a local children’s hospital. She was given a select few email addresses of her father’s coworkers that he felt would be receptive.
I was compelled by her maturity and kind heart and was moved to buy cookies. Knowing this little girl, this was all her idea. In this way I didn’t mind being solicited. If he had come, I probably would have said no, just because I hate when people push products for their kids.
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Hannah
February 11th, 2009
10:14 am
I don’t think parents should bring order forms to work for people to buy cookies or anything else. This does cause problems for co-workers. There have been several instances when someone brings an order form for their child and then the person gets mad if people don’t want to buy what they are selling. An office or ‘workplace’ is supposed to be professional, not a personal place. I have had co-works and even my boss try to hawk their childern’s order sheets for different things at me, and of course, I felt pressured to buy something, even though I don’t make as much as most of them. It dosen’t matter how expensive it is or what cause it is for, the workplace is not the place to seel your childerns ‘goodies.’
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Single Diva
February 11th, 2009
10:16 am
I’m single, no kids. I am constantly approached by co-workers to buy their kids’ holiday wrapping, candles, cookies and other crap. Two weeks ago I was approached by no less than FOUR different coworkers telling me that I had to buy cookies. I said that I appreciated the offer but I’d pass. One of them said I was being cheap and should be supporting them. I told them that if they wanted to support my fund-raising for buying a cute pair of boots that I saw at Filene’s that I’d be happy to reciprocate.
I did the fund-raising when I was a kid – but I did it myself – my parents didn’t try to strong arm people to buy their kids stuff.
Guess what? I’m in sales for a career. And I’m the top rep in the office. And my mom doesn’t close my deals for me either.
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Mindy
February 11th, 2009
10:20 am
Girls Scouts are supposed to be the ones selling the cookies. Sometimes there are challenges if you don’t know your neighbors, live in a small neighborhood, or have too many girl scouts in the area beating you to the sale.
I have my daughter write out what she would say if she was in front of someone and I bring that to work. I’ve copied it and posted it in common areas and will tape up the order form in my office. There is no pressue but my co-workers have flocked to sign up for the cookies they want. This has worked well for us for two years and no one in the office has ever said they felt pressured – in fact, some people get upset that they forgot to order when the deadline was over so I always buy a few extra boxes and just sell them those.
Ultimately the sales of girl scout cookies should be part of the scouting process and the responsibility of the girl not the parent pushing it on co-workers. And people can always politely refuse – no one is saying buy Thin Mints or you’re fired!
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Mrs Scrooge
February 11th, 2009
10:33 am
I hate it when people bring their children’s fundraisers to work. That includes Girl Scout Cookies. I have 2 nieces who sell cookies, and several friends’ w/daughters who sell cookies…I buy from them. I’m solicited at home for the boy scouts, and other relatives’ school fund raisers. I usually give a check to the family members…but SHEESH…I’m at work, let me work.
I don’t “socialize” with my co-workers so much, we don’t get a lot of down time to chit-chat much less a break room…but let a fundraiser get going & the line forms at my office door. I don’t interrupt your workday w/my children’s fundraisers, your son’s new job cold calling
for ____________ product …please do the same for me. And those emails…don’t send them. I get them from people in my dept at different physical locations I wouldn’t recognize on the street.
I know I’m a Scrooge, but most companies are cracking down on productivity & I’m focusing on keeping my job…not getting your child an iPod for selling ______# of boxes of cookies.
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Ironman Carmichael
February 11th, 2009
10:54 am
How come Boy Scouts never have to go out and sell anything?
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Judy
February 11th, 2009
11:01 am
I used to be a Girl Scout. We went door to door (I guess it was safe in the ’80s??), manned booths outside of grocery stores (be careful these days you can get in trouble, i.e. the Chick-fil-a fiasco!) AND our parents sold them at work. The idea is NOT about teaching salesmanship. The whole point is to raise money for the Girl Scouts. The are NOT as well funded as the Boy Scouts and the money earned from selling cookies is their main source of revenue.
If you have time to post comments here then you have time to simply say “No, Thank you.”
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Rodney
February 11th, 2009
11:03 am
The price of cookies is set by the local council. Unfortunately you can get price differences with people selling in the same area. I know my neice was a girl scout.
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TJ Stroker
February 11th, 2009
11:05 am
I really think that it all depends on how hott the mom is. The one in the Math Department at CHS is smokin’ so I bought 2 boxes.
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sam
February 11th, 2009
11:08 am
I really do not care if my co-workers want to sell the cookies at work. The problem for me is saying “no” and have to work with the person on a daily basic. Some people are offend by the word no and we work togther.
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Andy
February 11th, 2009
11:23 am
Girl Scouts hold booth sells and depending on their community sell door to door. My question would be what is the difference when they knock on your door versus the parent placing the form in a location where you voluntarily purchase? Yes, the goal is to teach the Scout responsibility, civic and personal but these attitudes here teach the other end of the spectrum. The only way I can purchase cookies are through these means because for years I did not know Scouts personally so I am neither offended or bothered. Here is an example: I as a Scout only know my neighborhood so although there are 8 different ones near me the goal set for my troop may be 300 boxes. Within those 8 if I cannot reach the goal which I am determined to do as a Scout I will push my parents to go further. Pulling police reports before my mom takes me is an option but how feasible. What happened to plain old fashioned giving to support a cause? These girls will benefit from the sales by the activities their troops participate in. This alone will teach them more valuable lessons than the rude, inconsiderate and possibly dangerous people they face going door to door. Try going with a troop door to door before you blog here, you will be suprised at what people do to children even with an adult present. When most of you here were younger the world was a safer and nicer place, read the front page of the AJC today it has definitely changed. Yes, tact and respect should be used by the parents and their approach at selling may offend some and most work places have policies about solicitation. I myself eagerly awaited any co-worker with a Girl Scout form because unless I’m out and about when the did booth sells I was not able able to purchase any. So I take no offense.
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Jody
February 11th, 2009
11:26 am
I would rather purchase cookies from a co-worker in support of their family enterprises, than some random kid parked out in front of the Wal-Mart. Times have changed, going door-to-door is not a realistic option. As for saying “no” to a co-worker, it is no different than saying “no” to lunch or chipping in for a co-workers birthday cake. If you are unable to say “no” than that is an individuals assertiveness issue.
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Linda
February 11th, 2009
11:27 am
I don’t understand how anyone is pressured into buying girl scout cookies. If you don’t want them then say no. I have to pass many girls during this season to say no because I have purchased many boxes of the cookies and frankly can’t help all the troops. I first look to buy cookies from someone that I know and if no one is selling, then I will purchase from the 1st group that I get to. If I have already purchased my limit, then I will not purchase more. I wish they were sold year round. I love the thin mints and freeze them. My husband just ate the last box a couple of weeks ago. I’ve ordered more for this year. Boy scouts do sell popcorn. Maybe its just individual troops, I don’t know. My dad was a leader and I don’t remember them selling products only tickets to the scout show.
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Joshua Corin
February 11th, 2009
11:27 am
No they should not be allowed sell the cookies. Girl Scouts make no sense in this day and age and the whole organization should be abolished.
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knoxgrad
February 11th, 2009
11:38 am
I don’t live in an area with kids, especially Girl Scouts, anywhere near me. So I appreciate the couple of parents who bring in the order forms, since I love Girl Scout cookies. As others have said, though, pushing them would be innappropriate. They simply bring them in and make the order form available to anyone who wants one.
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Amy
February 11th, 2009
11:45 am
I was a girl scout during the 80’s and back then it was safer to go door to door to sell. We always sold on our own with the occasional parent’s friend buying cookies. But in today’s world, kids can’t go door to door. Too many psychos out there. I am always happy to see tables of scouts outside of stores. At least then they are doing the work themselves. I don’t think parents should hound their co-workers to buy but should say “hey, if anyone wants cookies, let me know!”. You all know you want those cookies!!!
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Eliot
February 11th, 2009
11:51 am
A few things:
1. Boy Scouts sell popcorn every fall which is a major part of their fundraising. Second, this very morning I went to a fundraising meeting for boy scouts where I was given a pre-approved list of donors to call and ask for their annual contribution.
2. I hear you about not wanting to be harassed by co-workers’ children, but essentially, what it all comes down to is that particularly in the office you should make a concious effort not to put your feet in your mouth about how you can’t stand all these fundraisers. With your feet in your mouth you don’t have a leg to stand on. If you don’t want it, kindly say no and get over it.
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Cammi317
February 11th, 2009
11:58 am
Girl Scouts are now discouraged from going door-to-door, for safety issues. At least Juniors on down, have been told not to do so by the council. I am not sure of Cadet and above. They are specifically told to sell to people that they know. I work in a small office where everybody knows my daughter. So, yes, I sell cookies her as well as my boss for her daughter. It has never been a problem. People from other offices in the building come around every year asking if I am taking orders yet. Even people from the building management office purchases them. My daughter does call family members and close family friends as well as she asks teachers at her school to purchase them.
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No, I Don't Want Any.
February 11th, 2009
12:00 pm
If you try to peddle **ANYTHING** in your work environment, where you have a “captive” audience who are merely trying to earn a decent living for themselves without being panhandled, you are sub-human slime and belong in the Great Lake of Fire.
Please take your own lives if you engage in such behavior.
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Norcross Worker
February 11th, 2009
12:00 pm
I’m fine with it when the order form is left in a common area but when the President of our company (over 1,000 people & publicly traded so we’re not some mom & pop shop) brought her kid into work & walked around introducing her daughter to the employees & pushing the Girlscout cookies, I thought that tasteless….but of course, I bought some.
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Anon
February 11th, 2009
12:05 pm
OMG. I used to send my kid door to door every year with the Sally Foster fundraisers and GS cookies. The kids in our ‘hood used to race each other up and down the street to see who could get the most sales. They loved it, and it was safe. See we knew ALL our neighbors and we had a ton of kids in the neighborhood. It was small, so we all knew each other.
We also used to let them play outside, and even ride bikes. We didn’t keep them inside hooked up to the tv because there are bad people out there.
There is not a creep or a pervert behind every door. You people are raising paranoid kids.
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JimBob
February 11th, 2009
12:08 pm
My wife has a co-worker that goes all over the department selling and delivering the cookies every year. Disappears for hour’s not knowing where she is or what she is doing. Ignoring her job and gets paid for doing it! It is totally wrong for employees to sell while working. If she worked for me she would be FIRED. I can understand doing it after hours but to ignore you work duties, it is wrong.
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Good Grief!
February 11th, 2009
12:10 pm
I am so thankful that I work in an office wwith people who are not bitter! In this day and age, I cannot beleive people would be offended by a box of cookies! Where in the hell do you people work???? Maybe it would be a better place if you weren’t there! Unless you work envolves manual labor, you probably don’t work hard anyway, Lazy Americans! BTW, manual labor does not involve loading the printer with more paper!
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Jeff
February 11th, 2009
12:10 pm
I see nothing wrong with sending an email to your own department, or group of colleages that you deal with on a regular basis saying “If anyone’s interested, I’ve got an order form for Girl Scout cookies”. There is no pressure in that. If someone is interested, they let you know, otherwise that’s the end of it. Many times I wanted to buy Girl Scout cookies but didn’t know who was selling them.
As for Carmichael’s question about Boy Scouts, they DO sell items. My son is in Cub Scouts, and they do a popcorn fundraiser every fall.
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Maggie
February 11th, 2009
12:16 pm
I have no problem with anyone selling anything in my office. If I want it I will buy it and if I don’t I won’t. It doesn’t bother me who is selling it, co-worker, supervisor, pushy or not pushy,etc. I typically buy the stuff to be nice anyway, I don’t have kids now, but plan to one day and hope other people will be as kind to buy stuff from my child. One lady in my office had a great idea, when the orders came in she had her child sit down and write each person who bough cookies a short thank you note! I thought that was a wonderful idea!
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Clay
February 11th, 2009
12:18 pm
Toni: Thanks for contributing. What I said was don’t buy 12 boxes from the first person who asks and then tell everyone else you can’t buy from them because you just ordered 12 boxes from someone else. Order 1 or 2 boxes from everyone who asks and make several girls happy instead of just one.
To all the other poor, miserable scrooges: lighten up. They’re Girl Scouts selling Girl Scout cookies. They’re $3.50 a box. You get a yummy treat in return. You support programs that do good things for young girls. It’s not crap wrapping paper.
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Ellie
February 11th, 2009
12:20 pm
I love Girl Scout Cookies and the “cause” and buy them every year. I will buy just about anything that children are selling when they come to my door. However, I think it’s inconsiderate of parents to sell at the office. Girl Scout Cookies, Wrapping Paper, Magazines. I realize this is all for a good cause, but it needs to be done by the children. I especially don’t like being approached by a parent. It’s one thing to leave the form in the break room…it’s an entirely different thing to come to my office and ask me to buy something.
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Paris
February 11th, 2009
12:26 pm
There is nothing wrong with a parent(s) assisting in selling the cookies. My dad worked at my Elementary school, so when I went to Middle and High School he would take my fundraiser books to his job and sell a lot of items for me. I LOVE THIN MINTS!!!!
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Rudy
February 11th, 2009
12:28 pm
GS cookies, youth sports candy bars, raffles, magazine subscriptions, wrapping paper, candles, you name it! If it smells like a fund raiser it has made the rounds at my work. I started telling people “I’m sorry but solicitation has gotten out of control at this work site. I can’t help you.” Now they leave me alone. Good riddance!
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lovelyliz
February 11th, 2009
12:33 pm
It’s okay to sell cookies at the office but never to solicit. Send out and e-mail letting people know you are hawking wares for your precious one or put the order forms on display, but that’s as far as it should go. If you feel you have to ask direct: DON’T!!!!!!!!!! It starts with Girl Socut cookies and them there are the magazine subscriptions, wrapping paper, candy, popcorn, cookie dough & pizza kits, books, etc.
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Bill Mc.
February 11th, 2009
12:34 pm
Every year my daughter sells @ 300 boxes door to door and to relatives. Some people even order a year in advance or have a standard order each year. When she is done, I buy whatever amount of boxes she needs to get to the next level. Then I leave them in the break room here at work. That way, I never feel pressure to buy anything from anyone else at work. You could go broke just buying one item from everybody. After the first time doing this, nobody asks me to support their fund raiser anymore and several people have begun leaving other fund raiser items in the break room for everyone. It works out pretty well.
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Mike
February 11th, 2009
12:36 pm
I sell GS cookies at work for my daughter. But, I never go to people and ask if they want to buy. I put the order form out on a cabinet at my desk and I put up a sign to let people know that they are available for ordering. I sell around 50 – 60 boxes this way. As for doing all of the work, my daughter still goes around the neighborhood (with Mom in tow) and at church and asks people if they would like to buy any. Every package that she sells is that much less that I have to pay out of my pocket for her to participate in Girl Scouts.
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Snoopermom
February 11th, 2009
12:36 pm
I only buy cookies – or anything else involving fundraisers – from people who bought stuff from me when my daughters were playing on travel softball teams and we had fundraisers. If they didn’t buy anything from me, I don’t feel I should be expected to buy from them.
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Sue
February 11th, 2009
12:37 pm
I buy enough Girl Scout cookies to store the extra boxes in the freezer, otherwise they would be gone the first week. Popcorn unfortunately doesn’t freeze well, otherwise I would buy a trunkful of the microwave popcorn. My sons were in boy scouts (Eagle Scout), but unfortunately no girl scouts.
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Jess
February 11th, 2009
12:40 pm
Everyone loves Girl Scout cookies. Usually you don’t even have to push them in the work place. If people find out your child is selling them, they come flocking to you.
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Chip Jones
February 11th, 2009
12:44 pm
Girl Scout Cookies are as American as Apple pie! Folks that say they don’t look forward to them are lying.
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sethook
February 11th, 2009
12:56 pm
What lesson is learned for the scout when the parents are hauling the load in cookie sales? In the work place, parents shouldn’t go around strong arming their peers to push cookies. Why not just put a sign-up sheet in a break room and leave it up to each individual to participate out of want and not guilt.
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Apollo
February 11th, 2009
12:59 pm
any child who knocks on my door to sell anything from Xmas paper to band candy to Girl Scout cookies I will always buy from…any parent who sends me an email and wants to know…”how many boxes can i put you down for…gets deleted- literally and otherwise…
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JM
February 11th, 2009
1:00 pm
August, 1977, when Elvis died. I was in Europe at the time, and felt like the world had just ended. Very homesick for America when the news came on the TV. Nobody before or since has ever been able to sing like the King. If there were any justice in life, he wouldn’t have died so prematurely.
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ebaby
February 11th, 2009
1:04 pm
If I rememeber correctly, Girs Scouts the organization does not allow parents to do the selling for the girls. They do require that parents GO with the child under a certain age. Then, isnt it against most company policies to sell things at work? I love the cookies too, but it isnt very fair to the poor girls that follow the rules and dont have mom/dad do the selling for them. There is usually some sort of a reward to the girl that sells the most. So if that is the case, the parents are teaching that breaking the rules and essentially cheating is ok.
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officecookieseller
February 11th, 2009
1:22 pm
I am an Girl Scout cookie office selling offender.
My niece is a Girl Scout and I am proud to assist her at cookie season. But, I, under no circumstances barge people at my office with solicitations to purchase cookies.
I send out an e-mail to select co-workers in my office that if they have no other relatives, friends or co-workers with children that are selling girl scout cookies and if they would like to purchase girl scout cookies that my niece is a girl scout and I am taking orders for her.
No mass e-mails, no office to office hawking. I don’t even post a sign-up sheet in the break room. I really don’t care if I sell one box to my coworkers and am not offended when people decline. Besides, a lot of us don’t have girl scouts in our neighborhoods anymore. I get a lot of ‘I didn’t know you were selling girl scout cookies!’ comments when I bring them into work and I usually tell them that if they would like to order them next year to let me know and I’ll add them to my list. No harm, no foul.
The Girls Scouts of America is a great institution and I am happy to help them out.
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Barbara
February 11th, 2009
1:44 pm
As a former Girl Scout, Girl Scout Leader and parent of a Girl Scout for 12 years, I have no problem with parents selling at work. With so many families with dual incomes, there is often no one at home to sell to if girls go door-to-door. My co-workers depended on me for their annual Girl Scout cookie order and had no other way to buy Girl Scout cookies.
The Girl Scout troop and Girl Scout Council depend on the revenues from Girl Scout cookies to fund activities and programs. As such, I see no harm in helping supplement the girl’s totals with sales at the office. Whether the girl sells 50 boxes or 500 boxes, she will be learning sales, organization, and accounting skills. She will also learn to plan and set goals. Girl Scouts would not sell cookies just to make money. There are life skills that are learned in cookie selling. You don’t become proficient at all these skills as a 1st grader, but it’s learned over time with pertinent activities practiced during the cookie campaign.
One final note: Cookie sales like Boy Scout popcorn or the school wrapping paper drive are not intended to be a “good” deal. A good part of the money is a donation to the organization sponsoring the sale. If you keep that in mind, you will be happy to “donate” to the cause when solicited by these young people. We used to teach the girls that “NO” doesn’t hurt, but you will never get a sale if you don’t ask.
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Cub Scout
February 11th, 2009
2:07 pm
I was a Cub Scout, but got kicked out for eating brownies, So I stay away from GS Cookies.
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Kate
February 11th, 2009
2:13 pm
Personally, I think fund raisers are getting out of hand, but GS is a long standing organization that funds itself through many channels including cookie sales. I provide a space in our break room for employees to post any fund raisers or for sale items. This removes the “door-to-door” waste of productivity, yet allows people to purchase items they want or support organizations they wish to support. We do not allow personal solicitations or emails promoting these items.
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MrHughes
February 11th, 2009
2:19 pm
As a single man without children I can’t help but wonder, where are my fundraisers? I’d like the church I attend or the nonprofit I work for to have more money. Shoot, I’d like a new pair of Calvin Klein jeans, an Ed Hardy shirt, or some Hawks tickets… Whenever people shove those order forms in my face I tell them that I’d rather support their child by coming to one of their events. I just think that it says more in terms of support to show up for a football game, dance recital, play or contest than shelling out money for crap. Moreover, I just think it is absolutely wrong for parents to sell Girl Scout cookies for their daughters. What kind of message does that send? Mommy and Daddy will do your “work” for you and then you can take the credit. Instead of selling the cookies they are playing PS3, watching High School Musical 3, reading Twilight, or passing notes in school. My parents never took sign up sheets to work for the things I sold. I had to go door to door and (gasp) talk to people. My parents were willing to help me work on my sales pitch. But, it wasn’t their duty to sell for me. Truthfully, I’m glad they did it because it taught me the value of hard work, self reliance, and having a plan of action. Moreover, having to come up with a sales pitch forced me to think on my feet and helped me develop social skills. All these kids sitting at home getting fat in front of the boob tube are going to be running the country some day. It will be a travesty that people who didn’t care enough to sell cookies will be in positions of power. Also, all of these fundraiser items are incredibly overpriced. I have problems paying $4 a box for something that is not even worth half that because it’s being sold to me by someone in a green uniform. Would you pay $4 for a box of cookies at Publix? They have green vests too!! I remember when a box of Girl Scout cookies was $2; that was considered expensive for what you got. And, that was not that long ago; Oprah was on TV. I was a Boy Scout. I sold Scout show tickets door to door. No one murdered me; bullets did not whiz by my head. The only thing I feared was rejection by a few of the crotchety old men in my neighborhood and a few doors slammed shut. And, you know what… I survived. Rejection is part of life. What’s sad is that these kids are going to “grow up” and expect Mommie and Daddy’s “help” like they got when they sold cookies. So, when your kids need a loan for their first car/house, bail money, or want to bring your very own grandchildren to come live in your house with you, then you only have yourselves to blame.
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nypeach
February 11th, 2009
2:20 pm
I absolutely love GS cookies and I can’t wait every year for that special time to come around. Yes, I need to get a life, but until then I say let the moms sell at work. It’s better than that cheesy wrapping paper I have to sell for my kid. Also, I really like the caramel popcorn I get from the Boy Scouts. Forget a diet, I’m going full out in my support of the children!
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deebolden
February 11th, 2009
2:22 pm
I love Girl Scout cookies. I don’t have any girl scouts near me, so I welcome seeing the order form left in the break room at work. As long as I’m not pestered personally I’m fine with it. I understand some of the points people are making about the girls’ not learning anything, but things aren’t like they used to be, you may think you live in a safe suburb or area of town, but there are too many quacks out there for girls to go door to door at least unsupervised. You’d also be surprised if you had any idea the number of sex offenders living in your area. I don’t think any girl scouts totally rely on mom and dad pushing orders at work. Some attend my church and do very well selling them to the members at the appropriate time, people attending after school functions and sports activities.
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Joshua Corin
February 11th, 2009
2:24 pm
Most Girl Scouts are nothing but spoiled brats with a very low IQ. I saw one of my college students with a box of Girl Scout cookies and confiscted them, tossed them into the garbage, and then made sure her grade was adjusted. Anyone I caught trying to sell these cookies I would report so they could be suspended.
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Atlanta Native Too
February 11th, 2009
2:30 pm
I am an Eagle Scout on the Boy Scout side and I help out scouting financially every chance I get. Yes it is OK to sell the cookies at work. I own my company and I encourage it. Joshua…it must be awful to go through life with that kind of attitude. Just because your glass is half empty don’t get in the way of us folks whose glass is half full.
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Joshua Corin
February 11th, 2009
2:33 pm
Atlanta Native Too, my glass is always half full. I just detest inferior intellects.
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MrHughes
February 11th, 2009
2:41 pm
People that think it’s unsafe to go door to door to sell cookies have been watching too many episodes of “To catch a predator”. I don’t care how many kooks there are. Next you are going to hear arguements against playing outside and walking the dog. Does the newspaper guy or telephone man tremble in fear walking the streets in the ATL? Please!!
Children going door to door to sell things are not in danger if they follow common sense rules like don’t go into people’s houses and only sell during the daylight. It’s not that dangerous… This is America, the wealthiest country in the history of our world.
A child should not having trouble selling even in the most dangerous of neighborhoods even in the most dangerous neighborhoods. On the other hand, why can’t a parent supervise a child from a car on the street while she sells door to door. Then the child actually performs the activity themselves “as intended” and is not in harms way. I think that’s a nice way to spend a Saturday or Sunday afternoon for some of these parents. Most of these people don’t know that any Girl Scouts live around them because they are all laying on the couch at home getting fat eating cookies.
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jg
February 11th, 2009
2:42 pm
I totally support the Girl Scouts and friends whose daughters/nieces/granddaugthers etc are Girl Scouts – buy a few from each girl and freeze/give away/send to soldiers……
IT’S AMERICAN!!! Even our friends who have moved overseas love to receive them.
It is – at my office – though considered taboo to solict so it gets comical when people are selling “banned contraband”
My friend’s niece sent around emails thanking everyone and a little photo/thank you card with her picture in her uniform. Already ordered a bunch from her already.
If you don’t want it just say No, Thank you – people will understand
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Atlanta Native Too
February 11th, 2009
2:44 pm
Joshua we all all so grateful that you are so superior to all of us. It is great that we have you around to demean all the folks you think are below you on the intellect ladder. Next time I need to be put in my place I will depend on you to do that very thing. But remember this, with your type attitude and arrogance one day you will be an old man, by yourself, lonesome with nothing to keep you company except your superior intellect.
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Joshua Corin
February 11th, 2009
2:48 pm
Atlanta Native Too, I would prefer to be old and alone with my intellect any day rather than be with those of inferior intelligence. And yes, people like you do need to be kept in your proper intellectual place.
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Ween
February 11th, 2009
2:56 pm
Not to sound stupid or anything but what are Girl Scouts?
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Jaye
February 11th, 2009
3:02 pm
Selling anything in the workplace is disruptive, but if your company allows it, always ask the seller: “What is the money used for?” Don’t assume it’s for a good cause because some sweet Girl Scout mom says so.
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marval
February 11th, 2009
3:07 pm
I work at a governmental agency, and I can’t count the number of parents/aunties who “sell” at work. Once it’s time to deliver, they “deliver” at work. Sometimes this entails hours and hours of time that is during working hours. This is on the taxpayer’s dime. Not appropriate in my book, but it is tolerated by the powers that be.
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C.M. Thornton, III
February 11th, 2009
3:19 pm
What a stupid question. How else am I supposed to get Samoas and Tagalongs??
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Louise
February 11th, 2009
3:22 pm
A parent is supposed to go with the girl scout and sell door to door, or at a booth sale or in an office, OR the daughter makes the phone calls to solicit orders. Girls are not supposed to just “give the order form” to mom and dad to post at the office. This is a Girl Scout rule of selling. And there are specific dates to sell within and guidelines to follow when selling. Unfortunately, MANY MANY parents and girls don’t follow the rules where selling is concerned. If the neighborhood is dangerous and the parent and daughter can’t go door to door, the troop can schedule booth sales in order to sell them. Oh…and I think it’s ridiculous for Daisy Girl Scouts to be selling cookies. This age group is Kindergarten and 1st graders and they’re too young, too shy usually, can’t calculate the forms, don’t understand money and giving change, and too many other issues here to list. The parent ends up being in charge of it all…..
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Brad
February 11th, 2009
3:34 pm
I see both sides of the story. However, if the parents can’t sell the cookies, there will be a lot of people that can’t get the cookies–including me, so let the parents bring them on!
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GS Leader
February 11th, 2009
3:49 pm
I have been a GS leader for 10 years. My daughters always sell over 150 – 200 boxes on their own very easily. In addition, co-workers who are my personal friends and out-of-town family get an e-mail letting them know that cookies are available, although they are no under obligation to buy from us. I usually sell about 50 boxes this way. I agree with the person who said you wouldn’t believe how rude people are to children. My girls have had people slam the door in their face and shout at them. Here’s a hint: if you don’t want cookies, just say No, Thank you. The girls are trained to accept that. You don’t have to explain; it doesn’t really matter why. If you don’t want to face the girl, don’t answer the door. Although it’s frustrating for them when they know people are home and they’re not answering, but they only stay for a minute or so. Girl Scout cookies are very easy to sell, so there is never any reason to pressure anybody into buying them. There are enough people that want them already, but you have to find ways to get to those people without bothering the people who don’t want them. Although I shouldn’t stoop to your level, Joshua Corin, I’m guessing you don’t have daughters. Girl Scouts has adapted with the times and is very good at helping girls with self-esteem, responsibility, and just all around making the world a better place. You may think there’s no room in society for that, but I bet most people would like to think our young generations will be better than ours. My 15-year old has been a Girl Scout since Kindergarten and she is a delightful young lady with only minor teenage attitude … Girls Scouts definitely helped with that.
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Lily
February 12th, 2009
2:16 am
I don’t want dinner/flowers/presents because my husband feels obligated and hallmark tells us which day we should show our love for each other. A gesture on any other day means so much more to me.
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Palexander
February 12th, 2009
12:47 pm
I was told a long time ago, if U were stuck on a deserted island and had a choice of only 2 albums. This would have to be one of them. I agree!
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Catmomma
February 12th, 2009
12:56 pm
If you do not have this Kind of Blue (Davis) and A Love Supreme (Coltrane), you are NOT a jazz enthusiast! These two are a must!
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Milesfanatic
February 12th, 2009
1:11 pm
Miles Davis is the greatest trumpet player I have ever heard.When I listen to Miles Davis playing his horn,the sound is mesmerizing.Porgy And Bess and Kind Of Blue are the standards that all jazz recordings are measured.Summertime and Generique are my favorite selections.
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deejazzfan
February 12th, 2009
1:23 pm
Miles Davis is one of the great ones, I was fortunate enough to be turned onto Miles and Jazz in general my 1st year of college. Another great trumpeter for those who don’t already know of, check out Freddie Hubbard for a great track called “Red Clay” The live version features Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, and Ron Carter! 18 minutes of nonstop energy.
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ALAN
February 12th, 2009
2:16 pm
I also love Otis Blue. Otis Redding sings his heart out on love songs…and what about Classic in Country and Western by Ray Charles? Another great one.
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FM Fats
February 12th, 2009
2:56 pm
“Kind of Blue” is certainly among the greatest records ever made in any genre, and yet I think it has been less influential than Miles’s late 60’s recordings starting with “Filles de Kilimanjaro” through “In a Silent Way”, “Bitches Brew”, and “On the Corner”. KOB was a peak in modal jazz, a culmination of things Miles, Bill Evans, and George Russell, among others, had been working towards. The later albums were largely responsible for unleashing the forces of jazz fusin and jazz funk through the 70’s and open the possibilties of electronics to an entire generation of jazz musicians. Without Miles, we probably wouldn’t have Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock’s Chameleon and Rockit, or Weather Report. Love fusion or hate it, it was hugely successful in the 70’s.
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Jazzyfatnastee
February 12th, 2009
2:59 pm
This conversation would not even be possible without the contribution of one Louis Armstrong……..even Miles would admit that!
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MARC WILKINSON
February 12th, 2009
3:08 pm
Only Phil Carey could play the part of Asa. I Loved each and every sarcastic line that he Uttered, Especially to DORIAN LORD!!! Asa will be truly missed . and to the CAREY FAMILY I SEND MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY .
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Shannon
February 12th, 2009
3:37 pm
I’m with you!! I actaully just tried to explain this to husband before I came on here and read this….now he’s pissed at me and is accusing me of not loving him anymore. It’s ludicrous!!
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abc
February 12th, 2009
3:54 pm
‘Kind Of Blue’ is a seminal jazz recording because of the personnel on it. Miles’ most outstanding attribute was his ability to assemble great bands. Players he promoted became jazz stars in their own right, just as Miles himself did through Bird’s mentoring.
‘So What’ profoundly affected jazz that came after due to it’s modal construction. ‘All Blues’ is an interesting blues with a twist, the turnaround is characteristic.
I don’t enjoy Miles after ‘Bitches Brew’ (1969) all that much. My opinion of him plummets with his quote: “If somebody told me I had only one hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.”
Miles demonstrated the importance of space. What you don’t play, and where you don’t play it, is as important (or more so) than what you do play. He helped introduce George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept, a key component of music that followed — of course, so did many others. To some, Miles is just an out-of-tune trumpet player with poor range. To others, he’s the epitome of phrasing and concept. To me, he’s a racist due to being a victim of racism, and the person who assembled many of my jazz heros, bringing them into the international spotlight.
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February 12th, 2009
5:08 pm
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Ricky Ricardo
February 12th, 2009
5:10 pm
I am not worth a dime now since this new regime took power in Washington and has created Communism rule in America. Everyone that voted for B. Hussein Obama should be bent over a knee and spanked. Thanks for nothing.
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Charles
February 12th, 2009
5:24 pm
Ricky Ricardo: Either you are joking or an ignoramus. Obama could do nothing in his first 100 days that could possibly change your situation. The U.S.A. helps those that help themselves. Stop blaming others and look in the mirror.
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Chini
February 12th, 2009
5:40 pm
Charles is absolutely right. In any case, to answer the question, my net worth has fallen almost 50% in the last year or so. I still invest, but am fearful that I will still be working when I am 70 years old. *sigh*
On the bright side, I am starting to do some photography work on the side, so help me with my net worth, hire me! LOL If you think I am kidding, go here – http://www.ChiniCreations.com
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luckydog
February 12th, 2009
6:38 pm
I am a very conservative investor and although my home value has dropped, my investments continue to pay me 4 to 5% and this OK considering how my high rolling friends have lost everything.
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Dottie Lange
February 13th, 2009
12:00 am
Hi Mr. Aaron,
I met you at Executive Park in 1970. I worked in an office around the corner from you and I was 9 months pregnant with my first son. The mail man told me to buy and a baseball and he would let me know when you were in. You were so kind to sign the baseball as you have always been my favorite player. There aren’t many players that have the character that you have exhibited through the years. I cherish “my” signed baseball and my 2 sons are already fighting over it for when I meet my demise.
Happy birthday to you and best wishes for many more. Dottie Lange
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r.c.
February 13th, 2009
1:09 am
Interestingly enough, I had a conversation with my grandmother last week in which I updated her on the status of ABC soap characters. I told her of Asa’s status, and she thought I was telling her that he’d actually passed on. “NO!” I replied as she questioned me –adding that ‘I would be sad if he were to die because he is one of my favorites’. Now I have to tell her that it’s happened exactly one week after I told her how I’d feel about it. Mr. Carey will always be remembered as a great actor. My most favorable memory of his character is the day he told Jessica that she’ll always be a Buchanan–especially because he was very exclusive with his club–this was a very powerful scene. I also loved the scene in which he told Blair that she’d actually gained a pile of poop in their divorce. In actuality, I love EVERY Asa scene. My condolences to the Carey family; Mr. Carey will always be my shining star.
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Barry
February 13th, 2009
10:21 am
Mr. Aaron:
I have been a fan of yours for about 40 years. Baseball is my favorite sport and you were (and always will be) my favorite player. When I was 12 or 13 I went to see you at Shea Stadium. I told everyone that we needed to get seats in left field because you were going to hit a home run “for me” because it happened to be my birthday that day. We messed up and got tickets in right field, but you hit an opposite field home run that day – I will never forget that.
Happy Birthday, and thanks for being someone I could look up to as a baseball player and as a person.
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dw
February 13th, 2009
4:12 pm
Roses are red,
money I lack.
Please send me some roses,
so I can sell ‘em Jack!
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Snapperhead
February 13th, 2009
4:33 pm
Roses are Red Roses are Pink spending $50.00 a dozen in this economy makes you stop and think.
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Trysh_Mc
February 13th, 2009
4:37 pm
Roses are red,
I’m so blue,
I gave my boss a valentine
And she didn’t even say thank you…
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cjames
February 13th, 2009
5:05 pm
Roses are red
You say I’m not bliss
So here’s to tomorrow
Now you’re dismissed
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Ymille
February 13th, 2009
6:51 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue,
The rent is late and car note past due,
’stead of flowers how ’bout a little help from you?!!
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Geek Monster
February 13th, 2009
6:59 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Purple
Sugar is Sweet
So is Maple Surple
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Meems
February 13th, 2009
7:08 pm
In Knoxville..roses are red…
but something is missing.
You fired Fulmer
And only got Kiffin!!!
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Seedy
February 13th, 2009
7:23 pm
Roses are red
Violets are purple
You are as sweet
As a jar of sorghum syrple !
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Davis
February 13th, 2009
7:47 pm
Roses are red,
And not just by chance,
Too, when our eyes met,
Was love at first glance
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getoveryourself
February 13th, 2009
8:00 pm
Roses are Red my job is threw if my that crazy bitch on my job yells again she’ll be blue.
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Basil
February 13th, 2009
8:10 pm
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I’m schizophrenic
And so am I.
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Lynne
February 13th, 2009
8:23 pm
Roses are red
and I am blue
I don’t have a man
How about you?
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DLG
February 13th, 2009
8:39 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I think i may possibly
have a major crush on you
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BB
February 13th, 2009
9:11 pm
When they invented elevator music, aka “muzak”! That’s a good way to kill any song.
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BB
February 13th, 2009
9:14 pm
I must say that it was also a sad day when Karen Carpenter died. (And the Allman brothers will live on as well!)
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square peg
February 13th, 2009
9:18 pm
The death of John Lennon was certainly the end of an era.
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Rosita
February 14th, 2009
11:04 am
Rose are red
Violet are blue
Your headline writer
need grammar lessons too.
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Spook
February 14th, 2009
11:09 am
Roses are Red
Violets are blue
And I thank our God
For sending me you.
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elladee
February 14th, 2009
11:13 am
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I’m still single,
How ’bout you?
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musicmom
February 14th, 2009
11:15 am
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
UNEMPLOYED LOVE
Is still good it’s true
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Art Moore
February 14th, 2009
11:24 am
Roses are red
Violets are blue
We no longer love
But I can sue!
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Dolphin
February 14th, 2009
11:58 am
Roses are red,and Violets are blue My Heart aches so much for you.Roses are red, Violets are blue give me a chance to show my love to you !!!
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Robert
February 14th, 2009
12:00 pm
How about “roses” are red, and the AJC needs a new proofreader.
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Laura
February 14th, 2009
12:30 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue and sometimes thorny. When I’m not with you I get really…..corny!
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Dr.R
February 14th, 2009
12:36 pm
Roses are red,
But their price is too steep.
So you’ll just get a card,
‘Cuz your sweetie is cheap.
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ihorizon
February 14th, 2009
12:40 pm
WOW! This same topic was issued on iReport other day and it also had some “hot” responses. I think the reason we are so stressed these days is that we are constantly being inundated by want ads ie: , tv, check-out isles, cars, cookies, etc. I would say “No, thank you” to office girl scouts and walk up doorstep newspaper salesmen. Rarely do I buy anything but if I do it is because I didn’t have the heart to say No but that is what you have to do sometimes. If it is the constant bother to be asked to buy, put up a sign or speak up nicely but firmly and mention this is not the time nor place for such things. Time or place would be to have a bake sale at school or park to generate funds. Now, I need to find my girl scout who owes me my cookie order. Cheers!
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Youliveandyoulearn
February 14th, 2009
12:57 pm
Roses are red, Violets are blue…
My heart is aching and I’m sick of this Jamacian.
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C.W.
February 14th, 2009
1:21 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are blue
Bush sucked, I had no money
Still have no money, So,Obama sucks too!
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Emily
February 14th, 2009
1:30 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue come over tonight and let me cook for you.
Roses are red, violets are blue in this tight economy I can’t afford you.
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cupid
February 14th, 2009
1:39 pm
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet and so are you.
But the roses have wilted
and the violets are dead
the sugar has lumps
and so does your head!
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Felicia
February 14th, 2009
1:44 pm
Roses Are Red
Violets are Blue
This Stimulus Package has gave you a clue
If you don’t know this, you’re heads in the sand
We all will be rescued, cause Obama’s the MAN!
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bill
February 14th, 2009
2:12 pm
roses are red, vilotes are blue my man has 10 pack and i am so fine
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Tom
February 14th, 2009
2:25 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I’ll give your Tulips
Something to do…
**kiss**
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janie Hopwood
February 14th, 2009
2:52 pm
roses are red
their stems are quite green
there they stand all covered in
the brightest thickish sheen
of yellow
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janie Hopwood
February 14th, 2009
3:12 pm
Ironman, I don’t know how it is now, it has been a while since I has any scouts in the house, but boy scouts used to be part of the United Way. They got funds from that organization. The girl scouts did not. As a result, my money goes to the girl scouts.
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Christy
February 14th, 2009
3:21 pm
Roses are Red
and even come in blue,
but economy has tanked
so I could only buy two….
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Irresponsible Taxpayer Drain...err...mother
February 14th, 2009
3:29 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue, get implanted with eight embyos and you can have octuplets too.
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DWG
February 14th, 2009
4:06 pm
Rose are red
Violet are blue
AJC editors missed that it is plural
and not just because they hail from a land that is rural
ok, that’s a stretch. At least get the saying right though!!!
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Red, White, Blue, and Peachy
February 14th, 2009
4:09 pm
Roses are red,
but why should the Prez care
’bout steroids and baseball,
when there’s *bigger* issues out there.
Like recession and war and abuse of Welfare?
Roses are red,
but can we repair
our foreign relations
And the Earth, water, and air?
Or abortion, Gay marriage, immigraton – do we dare?
Yes, roses are red,
and rhyming is fun,
You say “Yes we can,”
Well, politicians…
let’s get the job done!
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Tyree
February 14th, 2009
4:22 pm
Rose are red. Vilolets are blue. My “EX” gay me a social disease. Maybe I should sue.
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Julia
February 14th, 2009
4:34 pm
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I think that I’m falling
in love with You!
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Jay
February 14th, 2009
4:37 pm
roses are red
violets are blue
some poems rhyme
and some don’t
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devron's ex
February 14th, 2009
5:06 pm
roses are red
men just suck
valentines are dead and
i don’t give a …
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Bob Seidman
February 14th, 2009
5:16 pm
Roses are red
Violets are bluish
If it wasn’t for Jesus
You would all be Jewish
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jaybird
February 14th, 2009
5:28 pm
Roses are red, oranges are orange,
and now I can’t finish this ’cause nothing rhymes with orange.
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TomHERE
February 14th, 2009
5:42 pm
Roses are red.
Violets are pink.
I love Obama.
republicans stink.
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Lulu
February 14th, 2009
6:28 pm
Roes ARE read only versus Wades
Toilets are blue & memory fades
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Algonquin J. Calhoun
February 14th, 2009
6:39 pm
Roses are red and so is your nose. Get the hell out my house and take all yo clothes!
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Traditionalist
February 14th, 2009
6:50 pm
roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.
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HOLYmoly
February 14th, 2009
6:51 pm
roses are red, the rich are bailed out, the taxpayer screwed, all because obama is prez
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Truthy
February 14th, 2009
6:52 pm
roses are red,
democrats stink,
obama is prez,
time for the truth, don’t ya think?
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lovelyliz
February 14th, 2009
8:22 pm
Roses are red but it’s been so long since I got one I am no longer sure
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VICK + OBAMA = TRASH
February 14th, 2009
8:56 pm
Roses are red,
Beer comes in mugs.
OBAMA and VICK
Are Two Worthless THUGZ !
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dan w
February 14th, 2009
9:02 pm
roses are red
and my marriage is over
now I sleep next to her smelly dog
…move over rover?
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Anne
February 14th, 2009
9:29 pm
What are the age restrictions for the Peachtree Road Race?
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Vilma Rubi
February 14th, 2009
10:05 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue
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Vilma Rubi
February 14th, 2009
10:06 pm
Roses are red,
violets are blue
if Juan Carlos ask me to marry him
Gladly I will say I DO
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vlscpa
February 14th, 2009
10:35 pm
Roses are red
Commies are too
This Timulus Plan
Screws me & U.
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SuzeyQ
February 14th, 2009
11:58 pm
Roses are red, Violets are blue. Bees seldom visit violets. Roses, they often do.
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flavamissionary
February 15th, 2009
12:39 am
As the sister to the author of this blog, I must comment! I am so proud of my brother! It really is like Feb. 14 with him and his wife. I was just talking about them today in the beauty shop with the other single women. I told them how the author of this blog and his wife seem to really be friends. They talk alllllllllllllll the darn time! So go ahead and skip today….your wife won’t even miss it…for the other 364 when you do show love!
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ed
February 15th, 2009
5:58 am
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
But I can spell “Roses,”
Better than you.
Check your work, AJC,
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Mo
February 15th, 2009
6:43 am
Roses are red,
Dead roses are black
never in a million years
would I take you back!
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fildawg
February 15th, 2009
8:06 am
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Mayor Shirley Franklin
Hasn’t a clue
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Susan
February 15th, 2009
8:52 am
Roses Are Red
Obama Is Black.
Kick him out of office,
And get our Constitution back!
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Grammie
February 15th, 2009
8:55 am
Roses are red
The president is brown.
Impeach the sucker,
And save our town!
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A Nony Moose
February 15th, 2009
8:59 am
Roses Are Red,
Obama’s A Pain.
With Him In Office,
We’ll Go Down The Drain.
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Stephen
February 15th, 2009
9:09 am
Roses are red
Think twice before you
Spend all your money
on someone who couldn’t care less about you
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I am Red
February 15th, 2009
10:14 am
Roses are red,
We’re getting the sack!
I’ll bet you’re now wishing
We had Bush back!
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Who IS That Guy?
February 15th, 2009
10:17 am
Roses are red,
Your minds have gone numb.
Why did you elect “O”?
Are you really THAT dumb?
Roses are red,
And now so is O’s face.
He’s hiding secrets
All over the place.
Roses are red,
Get rid of the leech!
The word, my dear friends
Is called “impeach”.
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80's guy
February 15th, 2009
11:16 am
Still tons of great music out there. I find most of it from NPR stories and Net searches, and haven’t listened to FM in decades. Irrelevant – like cars from the Big 3, they can’t seem to play what I might like to hear. But music hasn’t died – it is harder to find (if you’re over 25), and lives by the thousands on my ipod. Shuttle makes the best ‘radio station’ EVER!
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not 80's guy
February 15th, 2009
11:17 am
OOPS – I meant 60’s guy…
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Kiddo
February 15th, 2009
11:30 am
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
You are amazing,
I love you.
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Mike D
February 15th, 2009
12:31 pm
Roses are red. Violets are blue. When I’m done with this poem, I’ve got a Cleveland Steamer for you.
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Mimi
February 15th, 2009
1:21 pm
Roses are red,
Violets are tiny.
You smell like
An elephant’s hiney.
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RLM
February 15th, 2009
2:14 pm
Why do some people have to drag race in. Why would you print racism. I would thing that is why you wait to print this. Does the Ajc believe in racism
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Betty
February 15th, 2009
2:42 pm
“Rose are red…”
Violet be blue.
Typos are embarrassing
And should be taboo.
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Susie
February 15th, 2009
2:48 pm
Roses are red,
But not so resilient.
Give something that lasts:
White diamonds are brilliant!
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Jane
February 15th, 2009
2:53 pm
Roses are red
And, frankly, a bore.
Give me jewelry instead
Or I’ll show you the door!
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John
February 15th, 2009
2:56 pm
Roses are red
And you should be grateful.
Next time I’ll send flowers
To someone less hateful.
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Max
February 15th, 2009
5:23 pm
roses are read
violets are blue
grass is cut
and so are you
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AJ
February 15th, 2009
5:24 pm
Roses are red
Obamas our president
Republicans better get use to it
Or watch the public take off their heads
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janedough
February 15th, 2009
5:38 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Some poems rhyme, but this one doesn’t.
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JASon
February 15th, 2009
5:45 pm
Roses are red, violets are blue. This message board is so lame that I don’t even feel like making this rhyme. Get a life.
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Chuck
February 15th, 2009
5:55 pm
roses are red
and more states are blue
republicans suck
there’s nothing from you
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Gmom
February 15th, 2009
6:17 pm
Roses are red
The economy is blue
I don’t need flowers
I need a bailout too
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vlscpa
February 15th, 2009
7:06 pm
Roses are red.
Obama’s half white.
Don’t call it racism.
It don’t rhyme right.
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Larry Hallman
February 15th, 2009
8:16 pm
Roses are red
We knew that
Violets are blue
Knew that, too
Can we imagine possibly
Doing something new?
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Georgian in Texas
February 15th, 2009
8:39 pm
Roses are Red
Valentines is the day before my Birthday
That makes today my Birthday.
Who cares about Valentines!
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mamaj
February 15th, 2009
10:20 pm
Roses are red, Republicans are whack, things would be MUCH WORSE if “W” was back!
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mamaj
February 15th, 2009
10:29 pm
Roses are red, the economy sucks, now that “Georgie” is gone, there’s no where to go BUT up!
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necie hams
February 15th, 2009
10:32 pm
Roses are Red Violets are blue
I THINK YOU SHOULD EAT BURGER
CAUSE THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO DO!!!
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Helga
February 16th, 2009
12:35 am
Roses are red,
but as Susie said,
Those petals will shed
and soon they are dead.
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Dorothy
February 16th, 2009
1:08 am
Roses are red
Unless you’re creative,
Or go right ahead
And be vegetative. :p
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Mark
February 17th, 2009
11:22 am
I had a friend who died from throat cancer. The song his girlfriend played as she held him in his last moments was the song “Kind of blue”. RIP my friend.
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SuzeyQ
February 17th, 2009
11:51 pm
Does anyone know what the profit margin is to a troop, per box of Girl Scout Cookies, or per tin of Boy Scout Popcorn? Are monetary donations discouraged? I would like to be able to give more, while buying fewer products I do not need, from multiple fundraisers. I do not want to just donate the product. Thank you.
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abc
February 19th, 2009
10:14 am
Facebook’s retreat is temporary. Per their own press release, they’ll figure out another way to have control over the data and change the policy again. As if they don’t market all that information anyway — and so does Google. Gmail saves messages forever, developing marketing profiles on you based on the text in the messages themselves. You think they don’t sell that information?
Because of Google search and gmail, you can be identified by name and address within 7 clicks. Advertising groups track your every surfing move. It’s all for sale to marketeers who want to sell you yet more stuff. Same with your Kroger card, your VISA card — all your purchases define you, and that definition is for sale.
Nothing is free. Such targeted marketing is the biggest pot of gold that ever was.
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Brookins
February 19th, 2009
2:16 pm
What is the registration fee? I know this isn’t a running tip but I can’t find the answer anywhere. Thanks!
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DG
February 19th, 2009
3:48 pm
Fix You – Coldplay
Burning Heart – Rocky IV
Danger Zone – Top Gun
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Suzanne
February 19th, 2009
4:32 pm
Lenny Kravitz “Are You Gonna Go My Way?”…..always start off every workout or running session with Lenny.
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Reginald Dwight
February 19th, 2009
4:51 pm
Slayer – Angel of Death
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John Tackett
February 19th, 2009
4:57 pm
Oh No!! not Again! Last year when this question was asked it created a flurry of pros and cons in regards to wearing an iPod (or any mp3 player) while running. Got downright dirty at times. How about asking what the runners are doing to get ready for the run? Or any strategies to get a number? Anything but the iPod issues.. please
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TF
February 19th, 2009
4:57 pm
“Better Now” – Collective Soul (and LOTS more Collective Soul songs)
“Bigger than my Body” – John Mayer
“Cruise Control” – Dixie Dregs
“Ah Leah” – Donnie Iris
“Rocking Down the Highway” – Doobie Brothers
“Runnin Down a Dream” – Tom Petty
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JB
February 19th, 2009
5:00 pm
“My Philosophy” – Holiday Parade (from Roswell, GA!)
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kristin
February 19th, 2009
5:28 pm
Metallica – Master of Puppets
TI – Bring Em Out
Young Jeezy – Put On
Iron Maiden – Run to the Hills
Motley Crue – Wild Side/Girls, Girls, Girls
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michael
February 19th, 2009
6:26 pm
NPR
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CN
February 19th, 2009
6:41 pm
Mastodon and Justice
Seriously, who works out to Coldplay???
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Nick
February 19th, 2009
7:25 pm
Bonnie Tyler, “Holding Out For A Hero”
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Keith Duncan
February 19th, 2009
7:27 pm
U218
Daughtry
Chris Tomlin
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ryan
February 19th, 2009
7:28 pm
Rihanna – Shut Up and Drive
Matisyahu – King Without a Crown
Green Day – Longview
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
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jim
February 19th, 2009
7:35 pm
Rachmaninov (the only music I have on my iPod)
NPR podcasts
Clark Howard
Bruce Willams
Stuff You Should Know
TechStuff
Wall Street Journal This Morning
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Steve
February 19th, 2009
8:56 pm
Radiohead- Bodysnatchers
Modest Mouse- Fire It Up
Brand New- You Won’t Know
Circa Survive- The Greatest Lie
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Melanie
February 19th, 2009
9:16 pm
Jolly Beggerman by Great Big Sea
Excursion Around the Bay by Great Big Sea
Tessie by Dropkick Murphys
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Bernardo
February 19th, 2009
10:00 pm
Gucci mane,wayne, and lupe!!
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SuzeyQ
February 20th, 2009
1:16 am
This afternoon, 02/19/2009, in Federal Way, Washington, a diabetic woman was given two bites of cookie crumbs from a Girl Scout caramel cookie, as first aid, before the paramedics arrived, on the advice of her husband, who had arrived to unlock the car door. The semiconscious woman was found by Danette Lam, who had just picked up hundreds of boxes of cookies for sale. The neighbors had called 911. Paramedics were soon at the scene, and administered further help to save the diabetic’s life. It takes a village…and something sweet.
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Pedro
February 20th, 2009
12:11 pm
Sure they should be shown. It let’s the adoring public realize what a tough guy Chris Brown really is. I wonder what this young idol’s fans think about his talents now? I also wonder how he’d fare in a back alley trading hands with a man. What a chump. I hope she learned something about judging character.
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StimBill
February 20th, 2009
12:54 pm
Back to the stimulus bill/package and all of its offspring, seems the only people who support it expect to get something from it (at the expense of those who are responsible and work for a living)…
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kendall meeks
February 20th, 2009
5:17 pm
whats the real reason behind showing her pictures to the world what are we going to gain from this. there’s too much other issues that need being address rather than talking about chris and rihanna.its nothing more than a stunt to more damaged to chris. unfortunatly this has happen but we need to let the courts decide what fate chris gets and not the public.both images are damaged from this and he deserves justice until the truth comes out. and don’t misunderstand i’m not saying that he should be let off or anything just let the system work.i like both of them and i really hate that this has happen. hopefully they will both go and seek help for this
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kendall meeks
February 20th, 2009
5:18 pm
i think he’s doing a good job so far, i’m not looking for a dramatic change overnite but he is making a different
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nana
February 20th, 2009
9:47 pm
Didn’t play before this recession (soon to be depression), won’t play now.
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Barry Franklin
February 20th, 2009
9:51 pm
I use to play $10 a day but now am playin all I can.
Cash my check, head to the C store, play the video poker
and hit me 20 or 50 on the scratch off and cash 3
gonna hit it and leave u suckers behind
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Mr Fury
February 20th, 2009
10:12 pm
I thought they outlawed all those video gambling machines. It is amazing but I see
them all over the place now. Guess the APD is overlooking that they have been
outlawed.
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Retired
February 20th, 2009
10:29 pm
From here on I will play only the mega million. I have noticed that the scratch offs are jokes. I spent $100 gift money on scratch offs and only got $9. That is ridiculous! Even if I got back half of my $100 would have been better than $9. Well, I guess the lottery employees and the head hauncho must keep their share for bonuses. Personally I don’t know why they are allowed to get bonuses for doing their jobs as state employees. I know that someone would be glad to work for her huge salary without a bonus.
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Eric
February 21st, 2009
2:42 am
Here is a hint: Keep around some old lotto tickets for Mega Millions/Fantasy 5, etc then COMPARE them to the most recent drawing. You’ll be saying ‘boy I saved another $10 by not playing’ in no-time. Honestly, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result! I used to play more than I do now. I’ve cut back because I’ve not won, not because of economy, etc. IMHO its insane to continue to play $20-$50/week and continue to loose. Common sense prevails versus the insanity of playing ‘heavy’ hoping for that big paydirt.
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catlady
February 21st, 2009
7:09 am
I can spend a dollar on food and get food. I can spend a dollar on the lottery (do they cost a dollar?) and get….nothing. Which is the smart to do? I have never played the lottery. Don’t have any money to waste. I feel surprised by those who do play. (BTW, I make 78,000 per year, own my house and cars outright, but I don’t have the money to play that worthless game.) Good luck to those of you who do. You are fortunate to have money to throw away.
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kenny
February 21st, 2009
7:17 am
lately I have found that I have been playing more than usual, but that is going to change ,I guess I really need the help right now but that is not the way to do it . So I am cutting back immediately.
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SPBBBMB
February 21st, 2009
7:51 am
I still play. I use the money I didn’t spend on eating lunch out that day, or the money I saved by not buying that second cup of coffee. My lotto spending is maybe 5 bucks a week. It’s still “worth it” to have the dream.
Yes, you could save up the money over the years, but you’d still never have the millions the bigger lotteries offer. To me, it’s fun to have that thought in your head (impossible as it is), to think about that first thing you are going to buy, to think about walking in (briefly) to your job, and telling them GOODBYE! Dreaming is a part of living, and if you can’t have a dream, you start dying.
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gatordowneast
February 21st, 2009
8:22 am
Obama’s campaign rhetoric has backed him in a corner with the Liberal left wackjobs. The reality of the issues to be dealt with have shown what we suspected. He’s illprepared and there is no change…Clinton retreads in the Cabinet and key leadership positions and old tired Democratic solutions…throw money at it.
Then again, McCain was a horrible candidate on the pub side. Romney was the best candidate for the job but Huckabee helped knock him out in Florida by staying in and splitting the conservative vote.
Obama will be a one termer but his youth and “potential” I guess made him a more attractive option.
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music_lover
February 21st, 2009
8:31 am
Retired,
FYI, the Georgia Lottery Corp is a PRIVATE corporation. They are not state employees. They receive no money from the state. Therefore, they are entitled to bonuses like any other private company.
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Retired
February 21st, 2009
8:49 am
Thanks for the correction. Since the Georgia Lottery Corporation is a private entity, that makes it even worse that they are able to legitimately rip people off under the guise of funding Hope scholarships and Pre-k. Big bonuses to employees still have a sour taste in many peoples’ mouths as we see the terrible state of the economy. I still maintain that there can be more winners than there are.
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ballbuster
February 21st, 2009
8:53 am
To Retired and all other ignorants………..
The Georgia Lottery is a private company……. Their employees are NOT state employees. They have a CEO and a board of directors just like any other private company. Saying they should not get bonuses or should return bonus money just makes you look SO STUPID. So for the AJC or anyone to compare salaries to the governor or any other state position is ludicrous. The first thing you should do is get down on your knees and kiss the ground. Thank God you live in the good ol USA where it allows stupid, misinformed people like you run your mouth and post lies about things you obviously know nothing about.
If you did a little research, such as open records, you would find that the GLC pays ALL of its employees and ALL of their bonuses with 2% of their sales. Find me ONE other company that can do that. They are a BILLION dollar corporation. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” Their CEO didn’t even make $1 million in salary and bonuses last year. There are million dollar private companies within a few blocks of the GLC office that pay their CEO’s millions just in salaries.
Actually, if you researched and compared the GLC with other lotteries in the country you will find they are underpaid. The GLC is the #2 lottery in the US, yet aren’t the second highest paid. They aren’t even in the top 10 in lottery salaries.
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music_lover
February 21st, 2009
9:09 am
The GLC is not about you as an individual. It is an organization that is about providing children and young adults education. It is not meant to be a supplemental income for you. If you think it is a rip-off to help people who might not have been able to attend college otherwise (who then go on to get higher-paying jobs and pay taxes, which help benefit the state) just ask the 1-MILLION+ Georgians who have benefited from the HOPE and pre-K programs.
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Retired
February 21st, 2009
9:51 am
Calm down and stop raging. My opinion is my opinion.With your raging, you must be an employee of GLC, or have other issues. And, no the lottery is not about an individual. All I am saying is that fairness should be the issue. Payouts should be higher. I am sure that there are those however that play because their income is not very high and truly need the extra money. I surely speak for those people. In terms of supporting education, after working 40 years, I paid my share. I know without a doubt that the lottery has benefited thousands of students, that’s not the issue. In addition to taxes, I contribute to my alma mater and give book scholarships. I live frugally so that I can do that. Be blessed anyway. Ballbuster,I would like to win so that I can treat you to an anger management class.
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Tyree
February 21st, 2009
10:03 am
A self imposed taxation by those who are usually least able to afford it. The lottery plays on the hopes and dreams of those who want to be instantly wealthy. That said, the lottery does provide education benefits. However, the AJC several years ago had an article that reflected where the most profits were generated and where the most were distributed. It seems mostly black Fulton county genrated the most revenue and larger white Gwinett received the most grants. Speaks volumes to me.
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catlady
February 21st, 2009
10:11 am
The GLC is a state-sanctioned MONOPOLY.
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Brad
February 21st, 2009
10:30 am
Never played it before and I,m not going to now!
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Mr Charlie
February 21st, 2009
10:34 am
Too many states play Mega Millions for me to continue to have hope in winning. But scratch-offs and once or twice a year trips to the casino are my thing.
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Mr Charlie
February 21st, 2009
10:40 am
TO: “ballbuster”
Ms. DeFrancisco, is that you up this early??
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Say
February 21st, 2009
10:54 am
I agree totally with SPBBBMBB. It is just a dream and to play a little each week is okay. My mother always said the lotto saying to us which is ” It is A dollar and a dream” and you can’t win it if you are not in it to play. It becomes a problem when you are spending your last dollar on it or if you get depressed when you lose. It is a game. Some win and others lose.
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Jason
February 21st, 2009
11:01 am
System of a Down: Cigaro, Deer Dance, Bounce, Jet Pilot, Chop Suey
Anthrax: Madhouse, Caught in A Mosh, Cannot Kill What Doesn’t Die
Metallica: Disposable Heroes, All Nightmare Long, Judas Kiss, That Was Just Your Life, Frantic, Burn it Down, The End of The Line, Stone Cold Crazy, Trapped Under Ice, Whiplash, Phantom Lord, Helpless, Follow Me, Metal Militia,
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Eric
February 21st, 2009
11:03 am
I play the instant games, but I noticed lately that they aren’t putting as many winning tickets out there. The Georgia Lottery reported they made a killing last year, and one executive received an $150,000 bonus. I think we should all stop playing.
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WestCobbGuy
February 21st, 2009
11:28 am
I’m playing the same amount, though I cut back slightly on buying higher-priced scratch-off tickets. I now play more $1 tickets than the $5 or $10 ones. The lottery has full control over printing, so my guess is that in order to save money on lost sales, fewer scratch-offs have winners than they used to, so most of any lottery money I play goes into the regular drawings, not the scratch-offs, anyway.
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Jerome Walker
February 21st, 2009
12:02 pm
This is a CAPITALIST economy so you have the FREEDOM to CHOOSE how to spend YOUR money. That said if you WANT to play the lottery then play of NOT then don’t criticize other INDIVIDUALS how to spend THEIR money. That’s AMERICA and too bad the GOVERNMENT has BRAINWASHED this country to a recession.
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King of Sandy Springs
February 21st, 2009
12:23 pm
Basically if you play the lottery you’re either ignorant or an idiot. Somebody wrote on here you could save all your life and never have the millions. Try comparing how many people who have saved their whole lives who become millionaires versus those who play the lottery their whole lives and end up millionaires. I’ll bet you a lottery ticket the number who save is over a 1,000 times more than the lottery players. That’s 1 millionaire lottery winner to every 1,000 saver millionaire. You work hard, save, and invest to become a millionaire, people. It’s not about luck.
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Tyree
February 21st, 2009
12:59 pm
You have too look at the Ga. lottery as an entertainment expense. Like going to a movie or going out to eat. It’s gratification. An investment in your fantasy to become a luckiy winner. If you have enough disposable income to throw at the lotto, then spend away. Otherwise,the self proclaimed King of Sandy Springs is correct in his philosophy of building net worth. When the money gets high enough on the Mega Millions, I burn a few dollars with some co-workers.
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Reader
February 21st, 2009
2:01 pm
I don’t think they should have been shown without her permission. This will hurt both Rihanna and Chris’ career. I mean if there’s anything for Chris to salvage, he’s pretty much done.
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Workinwithu
February 22nd, 2009
9:57 am
Great Job! He has hit the ground running as he promised. We appreciate his efforts. Good luck to Mr. President and God Bless America!
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frank
February 22nd, 2009
10:03 am
He’s done very horrible so far. Apparently change is $15 extra bucks per week if you are working and pay taxes.
At least we have a black president though………………………
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Wyatt
February 22nd, 2009
10:04 am
i love how he is spreading the wealth. i love how he signed a stimulus bill that no one read. He’s giving more money to people who don’t have a job and don’t pay taxes. He’s going everything to take money from the people who worked hard for it and the ones who got it passed down. Hope over fear got him elected but now it’s just fear he speaks of. I think he’s the right person to really mess up this country and show the rest of the world we are complete idiots. This should be a lot fun over the next 4 years. Maybe the republicans should have a march on Washington. They to make their voice known…they are letting the idiots (which i love) ruin this country. We are on the verge of becoming France east.
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Ozzy
February 22nd, 2009
10:04 am
Whoever is cricizing Obama needs to first get familiar with the positiion he has been put in. Ship was sinking already and it is getting worse and he has been asked to rescue it. Great job with the stimulus package and now may be some help for the homeowners..
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chiu
February 22nd, 2009
10:04 am
We are a frugal retired couple. We paid off our mortgage and don’t buy anything if I can’t pay cash for-the old fashion way. Now we lost half of our mutual funds and because we don’t spend money we don’t have, we are paying all the bail out as tax payer at our age. what a sucker!!
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Jeny
February 22nd, 2009
10:09 am
Obama thinks he’s still on the campaign trail with his slick talking, high spending ways. He is singlehandedly destroying this great nation. He (and most of his administration) are racist, incompetent tools, and I can’t even imagine where this country will be after four years of his nonsense.
After one month he’s already done more damage to this country and to Americans than George W. Bush ever did in eight years.
Obama worshippers: You’ve been had!
America: We’re **rewed.
Jeny
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Little Miss Chi
February 22nd, 2009
10:10 am
Obama=Failure. Stimulus is a communist term for redistribution of wealth.
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Frank Simmons
February 22nd, 2009
10:12 am
With what he inherited he’s doing a good job. You have to do something, so at least he is taking some action.
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E
February 22nd, 2009
10:12 am
In 30 days President Obama has presided over one of the largest redistribution of wealth ever in this country. He has said to trust him and his cabinet, but at the same time when he and his cabinet were asked how they will fix our economic problems they have no details. The current administration stokes class warfare in the name of being fair, and demonizes those who are successful. I am truly worried about the direction our country is currently heading, Free Enterprise is being destroyed, jobs are not created through handouts, they are created when someone has a service or good to offer that people want, and as demand grows and the individual has the resources, they hire more people in permanent jobs to produce that good or sell the service. I give him an F for substance, and has anyone else gotten tired of the fact that he is on TV every day with another speech or news conference? Give it a break, and don’t come back till you have a real plan with details of how you’re going to help fix specific problems.
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milesbrown49
February 22nd, 2009
10:21 am
Jeny wrote: “After one month he’s already done more damage to this country and to Americans than George W. Bush ever did in eight years.” Is she kidding??? Is this a joke??? Bush left the office he took with a multi-million dollar surplus and made the a multi-billion dollar deficit, he entered us into a war that killed thousands of young men, spent trillions of dollars, with nothing (not moraly or finacially) for us to gain. He had us holding moster labels to the world with place like Guantonomo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Are you kidding me Jenny??? What the Republican Party needs to do know is get real. Thats all. There is a real need for a “real” conservative party in this country and the Republicans have been a let down. Obama is more conservative than Bush for sure!!!
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Bigwhoop2000
February 22nd, 2009
10:22 am
So far I think he’s been a miserable failure. I’m certainly not alone in thinking that either since his approval ratings are beginning to tumble. He’s obviously trying to turn our wonderful country into a socialist nation where the government will have complete control of your life from cradle to grave. I’m sure our forefathers are turning over in their grave’s right about now. The real scary part of this joke of a President is who will pay back all this money being printed? Sooner or later he will follow California’s model and raise taxes to astronomical proportions. Tax cuts are great but all the ridiculous spending is what’s really stupid. Ant farms in Vermont and rat houses in San Fran are ridiculous…..
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Winston
February 22nd, 2009
10:23 am
Yes, change is here…you are given 15 dollars and then you give 5 dollars of it back after a year….you get to keep the 8 dollars in change. LOL!
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Paul
February 22nd, 2009
10:23 am
Hes just another smooth talking politician that smartly used the Media and the race card to propel him to victory. He is very intelligent but so green in politics and experience to run the country. People expect too much out of him way too soon. he did inherit a terrible mess left both by the Repubs and the Democrat controlled congress the last 2 years. Only time will tell if he is successful or not, but we have to give him a chance and stand behind him at this moment. As far as the welfare part of his stumulus package, you have to stop the patient from bleeding before they can recover. That is priority # 1 now
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George
February 22nd, 2009
10:24 am
Well he has shown us that as a Democrat you can not pay your taxes, then when you get nominated for a cabinet position he can pay them back with out penalty. There are lots of Americans wonder just how that works. He has also made this country a laughing stock of the world cause now you can’t make fun like they did with Bush because if you do someone might say your raciest. He is going to help home owners who could not afford to keep a house they properly should not have gotten in first place try and keep it so they can lose it later. He said before he was elected that he was going to get the troops out of Iraq, he just forget to tell us he was going to move them to Afghanistan. I could go on but why we are stuck with him for 4 years and it is going to be a LONG HARD 4 years. THANKS to all of the gullible people who believed in his CHANGE. Those of us that have WORKED hard and retired will now only have change in our pockets when he is finished.
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Notafan
February 22nd, 2009
10:25 am
So far, so bad. Stimulus that will stimulate nothing but anger in the next few years. I’m tired of all the democrats still “campaigning” by trashing the former President, especially when pelosi and her corrupt colleagues are probably a little more to blame than the extremely liberal media will report. obama has made no real changes. I think the only change he’s made is not wearing a coat in the oval office. Time for the Libertarians and the Republicans to start their campaign…just like the dumb dem donkeys did four years ago as soon as Bush took office for his second term.
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Dare to Speak
February 22nd, 2009
10:26 am
It will be interesting when church lets today to hear the screams of racism start here about anyone daring to question barrack hussein’s success so far…the new attorney general calls America a coward when it comes to discussing race…but ANYTIME someone criticizes a black or muslim, they shriek and yell and march and claim bigotry…God gave you two ears and one mouth, try listeing (for once) twice as long as you run your mouth.
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luxomni
February 22nd, 2009
10:28 am
He said he would not hire lobbyists. He did just that. He said he would bring change to Washington. He brought back Clinton staffers and turned a so-called “stimulus” bill into the largest pork barrel spenathon ever. He said he would implement transparency, yet demanded Congress vote on the so-called “Stimulus” bill before they had even had time to read it. He promised to talk to Iran, they told him to get used to them having nuclear weapons and to apologize. He told the world America would become a better listener. Kyrgyzstan said listen up and get out. He persists in building up our forces in Afghanistan even as our ability to support those troops diminishes. In one short month he’s proven himself a liar and a fool. You really have to wonder what he will do for an encore.
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educatedgeorgian
February 22nd, 2009
10:31 am
Wyatt posted: “they are letting the idiots (which i love) ruin this country. We are on the verge of becoming France east.”
Hey Wyatt, if you look at the map we are actually located to the West of France. Kind of (hilariously ironically) illustrates the rest of your comment regarding idiots ruin(ing) this country.
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illuminusluna
February 22nd, 2009
10:32 am
I suspected this would end up being nothing more than a forum for ill-informed, whiny republicans to continue being sore losers–and once again ajc.com does not disappoint. The man inherited a mess and anyone who either can’t see it or worse, expected him to be able to fix it within a month is being willfully ignoraant and downright childish.
Jeny…this is just for you…you say that Obama has made things worse in one month then GW did in 8 years! That is so remarkably silly I wasn’t even sure I could add to it. I would ask you to explain yourself but we both know you can’t! In the last month has he screwed up as badly as GW did during Katrina? Any scandals on par with Abu Ghraib? Any scandals at all? He pretty much jumped in with both feet and has been working tirelessly–he is human so he will make mistakes and do things some would disagree with but working hard he is…I seem to recall that for the first few months GW was in office he was pretty much on vacation the whole time–perhaps, 9-11 could have been prevented had he not been asleep at the wheel…
It’s time for you replublicans to get over it. the majority of people in this country are fed up and want to go in a new direction with a new way of doing things. It’s what this country needs!
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milesbrown49
February 22nd, 2009
10:33 am
Funny some talk of redistribution of wealth but are they aware that the last 8 years was the largest redistribution of wealth ever with the middle class losing to the 2% upper-class. There needs to be some redistribution anyway!!
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Emmet McCall
February 22nd, 2009
10:33 am
He needs to be more postive since being elected. He is continuing to speak as if he is running for the Office, not as the elected President.
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Al Gore
February 22nd, 2009
10:34 am
Obama set up the relief so he and the other smokers could get an extra $15 per week to pay for his smokes. Next he will socialize medicine to make sure his fellow smokers are taken care of by all non-smokers. What a joke, he wants to make sure the Americans that are facing foreclosure because they are in a house they should have never been in to start with get to keep it by forcing banks to rework bad loans? Isn’t this what got us in the mess we are in? May the good Lord help us all.
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b6542
February 22nd, 2009
10:35 am
Just watch the jobs and your 401k/IRA continue to evaporate and his solution is to “Tax the Rich”. The drip……drip……drip……will continue. Then hyperinflation……………future does not look very bright.
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Dare to Speak
February 22nd, 2009
10:35 am
And maybe next time I’ll try spell check while I’m “listening”…a little humor wouldn’t hurt us either…
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milesbrown49
February 22nd, 2009
10:37 am
After reading these comments today, I am more glad Obama is our President. More change is what we need indeed!!!
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Kclubmember
February 22nd, 2009
10:38 am
I think it’s a little premature to evaluate President Obama’s job rating.Most of us hard working patriotic Americans are evaluated every six months on the job.So,Let’s take a deep breath and give President Obama an opportunity to stir this economy in a positive direction.Everyone with a credit card is at fault,spending money that you haven’t earn yet.Most of us attempt to live lifestyles we can’t afford.Who’s to blame for those decisions?President Obama?
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Give me a break
February 22nd, 2009
10:39 am
I hate negative people and so far there are a lot of negative comments posted here. Probably Bush supporters anyway or racists mad that he is black. If you know so much then you should have run for president. Idiots!
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Darrell
February 22nd, 2009
10:40 am
Way too soon to field this question. Must the AJC fill their pages with this kind of fluff?
That said, I would like to see President Obama do well but I don’t have much hope that he will.
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Sarah
February 22nd, 2009
10:42 am
President Obama is a terrible disappointment. He is clearly unprepaired and in over his head. There is NO CHANGE in Washington. It is still the spend what we don’t have – pad the pockets of “friends” with the taxpayers money mentality. What do these fine folks give the hard working – tax paying citizens??? $13 dollars a week back of OUR OWN MONEY! Mr. Obama we were looking for CHANGE – stop all the crazy spending / take back our country from special interest groups / put America and Americans FIRST / Since he came into office I am exactly 35% worse off than before. So he fails with a huge F – Americans will once again vote for CHANGE in 2010. What in the world is it going to take to wake these WASHINGTON POLITICIANS UP?? Republician and Democrates alike.
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George Johnson
February 22nd, 2009
10:45 am
He is shaping up, faster than any president in history, to be one of the biggest failures there is or ever was. But the press is protecting him, because they pushed him on us. If he fails, THEY fail also. And they’re not about to let that happen.
He’s horrible, he’s going to totally ruin this country. Your great, great grand kids are going to be paying for his HUGE mistakes.
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Trina
February 22nd, 2009
10:45 am
He is doing a fantastic job. Simply because he is hopeful in dealing with this mess BUSH put us in! Most people get a 90 day probation period to see how things are going to work out. So it’s a bit early to call him a failure or a winner. Those people who are ALREADY calling him a failure are the people who are afraid he is going to actually be successful in cleaning up the mess Bush made. REMINDER: Bush pull the first “bail out” and the pointless “stimulus check”.
Creating “temporary” jobs for Americans is a lot better than Americans receiving a one-time $600-$1200 check that you have to pay taxes on. Roads, schools, technology, etc…all of these projects are needed! Why not now? There are way too many schools in old buildings that can use an upgrade. Not to mention Spaghetti Junction looks like it can fall any day now. Why not put people to work in this time of need?! (Again, thanks Bush) Yes, these may be projects, but most Americans are well aware that big corporations and other businesses are not invincible. This could give them another chance to save, get caught up, and/or live within their means. Some people may use the money to start their own business. (That can’t be done with a $600 CHECK)
The Stimulus plan was and still is available for anyone to read. So if no one read it, that would explain some of the ignorant statements and it. It will also explain why they are just waiting on the next Republican to come along… Shallow minds are the minds that got US into this mess.
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Brenda Tucker
February 22nd, 2009
10:47 am
President Obama is doing a great job considering the enornmity of the task at hand. The people with the loudest voices are the ones who support war, hatred, unequal distribution of wealth, intolerance for people of color, and failing school systems. George Bush is the worse president our generation has seen. The nation is in an unnecessary crisis deliberately orchestrated by the Bush administration. Our time and energy must be spent on rebuilding the country and on holding Bush and his administration accountable for the war, economy, and for monopolizing the judicial system instead of on finding ways to discredit Obama. The people who continue to support the legacy of George Bush instead of working peacefully with those who are trying to to overcome adversity makes it certain that our country can not afford to have another Rebublican president anytime soon.
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Mike In Woodstock
February 22nd, 2009
10:51 am
The people freaking out about the size of the stimulus package were dead silent when we spent a trillion dollars invading and rebuilding Iraq.
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athensjack
February 22nd, 2009
10:51 am
AWFUL…typical liberal trash. Giving money by the truckload to those who won’t work. And keeping corporations afloat with our money is stupid too. He’s making workers and productive people pay for shiftless people that refuse to work, instead living off the gov’t. All the people that are productive are getting ripped by the fool. Terrible, useless, doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t care.
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Sherry
February 22nd, 2009
10:53 am
It is amazing reading the banishing of the President Obama. It has just been only 30 days. There was a lot of mess on his plate when he enter the white house. I feel he is doing a good job. I praise him and his staff with the accomplishments that have made thus far. Has it been perfect no way and we are not perfect either. He is still only a man that was voted in to lead a country. Keep up the good work and the postive impact you and your family has made on this nation. Fall short, just dust off and move to the next. Americans need to be patient.
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Better Off
February 22nd, 2009
10:54 am
President Obama is doing fantastic, considering the “hot mess” GW left on his desk. GW, Rush, Shaun, O’Reilly and the republicans had 8 years to create this big nightmare and folks expect President Obama to clean it up in a month… Give me a break! He’s done more in a month than those other clowns have done in their lifetimes. God Bless our President, may he continue to move this country and this world forward.
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Jim G.
February 22nd, 2009
10:54 am
He’s in way over his head…to go from organizing ping pong tournaments for the homeless to becoming an absentee Senator and now to President. He’s very inexperienced and basically allowed Pelosi and Reid to write the largest spending bill in American history. The worst part is that his ideas are not his own, they belong to a guy named Karl Marx…completely un-American…He believes that Government has all of the solutions..he’s an Anti-Capitalist…he’s going to raise taxes on business and the wealthy. The very people that create jobs that create tax-payers to fund these moronic programs….I agree he will be a one-termer similar to Jimmy Carter…his policies will be his un-doing…Hopefully CONSERVATISM and it’s guardians will rise up in 2010!
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George Johnson
February 22nd, 2009
10:55 am
Absolutely amazing, ALL the obama supporters here, don’t know the FACTS. They’re all blinded by the media halo that has been placed on his head.
In their eyes, he can do no wrong either, along with the media. They’re refusing to even LOOK at the FACTS.
Do you know how many trillions of dollars of debt obama just caused us???!! I’ll tell you since you don’t have a clue. The word is, about 65 trillion. SIXTY FIVE!!
I’m actually glad I’m going to die within 20 to 40 years, because I do not want to be around when this once great country, comes crashing down.
But you’ll keep blaming Bush for it. Won’t you?? Look to YOUR man, he is in charge right now. Not Bush.
Sure, his socialist, Marxist policies sound great to you people on the receiving end right now. It did to the Russians too because they found out, The Cubans loved it too ’till they found out Castro was a liar, Hugo Chavez etc…..
Yeah, you just wait.
Sure, Bush spent us into HUGE debt. Just what do you think obama JUST DID!!??
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Ian
February 22nd, 2009
10:56 am
The initial efforts by this administration are dangerous for the long term viability of the country. Moving more and more people into being tax consumers while raising taxes on the rich, an elastic term if ever there was one, destroys incentives to take those risks that move economies forward. This is a recipe for a moribund economy. His support for the Freedom of Choice Act, removing all restrictions on abortion, are, to traditional Christians, morally repugnant. Closing Gitmo may also be a larger problem than Mr. Obama realizes. What do you do with people who are totally committed to destroying your country? The mortgage crisis, brought about by the Community Reinvestment Act, is being solved by moves that will increase my costs, though I bought a house below my means and paid for it. I totally fail to see any virtue in being forced to subsidize the bad decisions of others and that seems to be today’s stock in trade in Washington. Yes, I would love to have more money, but it is wrong to use the government to take it away from someone who earned it to give it to me. I believe in charity and gave, the key word in “gave”, in church this morning. I find that the way we should help others. Using the power of the state got us into trouble and using it as a means of charity, voting to make others pay for our causes, is no virtue.
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OMG!!!
February 22nd, 2009
11:00 am
“Give me a break”, why is it if you speak out against Obama then you are a racists or Bush supporter? Just because I don’t like him has nothing to do with the color of my skin. Why was it when people made fun of or disagreed with Bush, Clinton, or any other President it was ok but they were never called a racists?? Why is it that black people keep saying all the whites are racists but you don’t see Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson come out for any white person they feel has been wronged or made fun of? Why was it not racist when black people talked and made fun of other Presidents? Are you saying only white people can be racists,because I know alot of blacks that are racists against white people or against hispanics or orientals. How about GIVE US A BREAK from you must be racists or Bush supporter because we disagree with Obama! I disagreed with things Bush did too! So grow up and stop pointing fingers and giving people labels they don’t deserve!
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mike
February 22nd, 2009
11:02 am
They said that the American people would have 5 days to read any important piece of legislation before it goes for a vote. He did not even give Congress a chance to read what they would be voting on. Whats up with that
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Michael Dawson
February 22nd, 2009
11:04 am
I am very impressed. He is doing a lot better than I thought he would.
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NICK
February 22nd, 2009
11:08 am
TERRIBLE! That chimp that was killed by da police could have done a better job in his first 30 days in office…
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Informed American
February 22nd, 2009
11:08 am
Everyone who has posted comments saying Obama is doing well so far are the same people who voted him into office. These people can’t face the truth that they were wrong and that they simply got caught up in all the Obama hype. The people who have posted that he is not doing well are realist. They understand that fixing the free market will not happen by growing government. Everyone who is posting here is free to approve or disapprove of Obama’s job so far, but the only approval that really counts is that of the financial markets. And if case you haven’t noticed, the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ have all TANKED since the great Pres. Obama has taken office. The markets continue to drop off a cliff every time Obama or one of his corrupt cronies opens their mouth. Any clear thinking American understands this is NOT good, no matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat. Obama needs to stop taking advice from the lobbyists and starting getting real with himself and the American people. Otherwise, we are in for very, very hard times ahead.
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J David Raiteri
February 22nd, 2009
11:13 am
In very few words, Obama & his Socialists Party have taken us down the road away from Free Market Capitalism that made America Great to French SOCIALISM that will prolong this downturn well into 2010 & beyond.
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REAL
February 22nd, 2009
11:15 am
FIRST OF ALL, NONE OF YOU PEOPLE KNOW HIM PERSONALLY (respectfully), SO HE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE UTMOST RESPECT OF BEING ADDRESSED AS WHEN SPOKEN TO OR BEING THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AS “PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA or PRESIDENT OBAMA”! PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO GIVE HIM THE RESPECT HE DESERVES. YOU WOULDN’T GO TO YOUR DOCTOR/HONRABLE JUDGE/PASTOR AND ADDRESS THEM BY HIS/HER NAME WIHOUT THE PROPER PRECEDING.
SECOND, HE IS AN AWESOME MAN DOING AN AWESOME JOB THUS FAR. I DONT THINK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THIS PRESTIGIOUS OPPORTUNITY IF NOT ABLE TO DO THE TASK AT HAND!
FINALLY, THERE IS MUCH WORK IN AMERICA TO BE DONE, BUT LIKE “PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA” said “yes we can”. So do your part by staying positive and realizing even GOD did not create this world overnite. It was 7 days. So if it takes “President Barack OBAMA” 7 years to complete the task, I am willing, ready and awaiting P.A.T.I.E.N.T.L.Y. and so can you.
Thanks for your time…HAVE A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED DAY
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Sherry
February 22nd, 2009
11:15 am
Typical politician, “blah, blah, blah, blah”
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bill
February 22nd, 2009
11:17 am
According to the comments I have read so far, if you don’t like Obama, your either rich, rebublican or a racist. If you do like him your a leftist, freeloading, democrat. Obama has accomplished his goal. Turn the “classes” against each other and only the government can save us and he will be King. Good bye America, Hello Russia.
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Robert
February 22nd, 2009
11:19 am
It’s only been 30 days. Give me a break. Get over it. McCain lost. Why don’t you give this some time and let’s see what happens first. You can’t judge a President in 30 days.
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George
February 22nd, 2009
11:26 am
We lets see first of all to Tina as a retired black man I can tell you that people I know need more then a “temporary” job. Your president is also going to give you money that you will be taxed on just not as much money so not sure of you point there. If the best argument your have for the president is to accuse others of Shallow minds maybe that’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black. OK now to illuminusluna as a black Democrat could you in your infinite wisdom please tell me what I have to get over other then the fact that my party elected an ill equipped man as our President. Attention ‘Give me a break” thank you, for the first time in my 60 year’s on this earth you have call me a black man a racists. Believe me when I tell you I have been called lots of things most of which I will not post some starting with the letter “N” but never a racists LOL. OMG not sure but would think you are white but no matter you are right on. The problem with most of my fellow African Americans is that instead of any kind of intelligent response to comments we resort to the “you a racists” comments which is the biggest reason why we still have the problems between races now. Wake up my fellow African Americans we will never be a country united till be learn to accept each other as we are good or bad. GOD BLESS everyone.
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Heavy
February 22nd, 2009
11:26 am
What a LET DOWN!!! Obama has failed on all of his campaign promises. Still waiting for the “change.” Hillary would have done MUCH better. Four years can’t get her fast enough.
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Informed American
February 22nd, 2009
11:27 am
Real – this question is for you. Can you give an example of what you think is so ‘awesome’ about the job Obama is doing? If you think the ‘Stimulate Government’ bill he passed is awesome, then I’m afraid you are misguided.
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Alton E. Drew
February 22nd, 2009
11:28 am
As head of state, I would give Mr. Obama an “A”. Because of his style and communications skills, he has generated an 80% approval rating (based on a CNN poll) for strong leadership and has so far been relatively well received by a number of world leaders. In addition, he appears to be moving relatively quickly with establishing relationships with leaders particularly in Asia.
As head of government, I would give him a “C+”. He failed to exercise control over the development of the stimulus package, allowing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to weaken the stimulus package by filling it with non-stimulative spending. Mr. Obama did give them license by requiring unnecessary spending on initiatives such as “greening” federal buildings and building hybrid cars. Only 17% of this package will help grow the nations gross domestic product. His package gives out a lot of fishes but no fishing rods. More should be spent on job training, education, and promotion of technologies that would help the United States find and extract more oil.
Overall, I give Mr. Obama a solid “B”.
Alton Drew
http://www.altondrew.com
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Bozz
February 22nd, 2009
11:31 am
Unfortunately, for all of the rhetoric and campaign promises, he has acted nothing less than like a ‘deer in the headlights’. His very limited time in Washington and ‘no experience’ in the Senate is telling fast. He has quickly adapted to the ‘business as usual in Washington’ and really is not much different than his predecessor, except maybe a bit more polished and ‘trained’ in how to speak publicly for attention and in a method that sounds ‘confident and knowledgable’, which has yet to show it’s face. His prevalent ‘Socialist’ views and, apparent goals, have taken him completely off the path of his campaign rhetoric; but, for anyone of intelligence, you knew he could not fulfill the ‘BS’ he was throwing out. This was an ‘Oscar’ event from the beginning and nothing has dissuaded the facts of that. We are in for a long 4 years, and even ‘OJT’ will not come in time, as the arrogance that prevails over intelligence is too far in bloom….
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yurtle_the_turtle
February 22nd, 2009
11:32 am
Obama couldn’t be more of a failure. It’s nice to see that liberals don’t change much. They’re irrational hatred of Bush and moral values show all the time whether in their hate-filled rhetoric, or their actions. Contrary to their popular belief, Liberals are NOT “open minded”. They are more closed minded than any other group of people. Bush didn’t create this economic mess, but Clinton and his “give a house away” program dicated to the banks. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the Democractic give away vehciles. Now our “Messianic” President offers to pay for the mortgages of people who should never have qualified in the first place while good, decent, hard-working middle class Americans struggle to do things the correct way i.e., work hard, get an education, and stay together.
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bubba
February 22nd, 2009
11:33 am
horribile!! we wi be lucky to survive the next 4 years. he was`nt qaualified and now he`s way in over his head. we don`t need a pelosi puppet,we need a president of all athe people.oh did i mention he`s going to free the veru terrists that want to kill us!!
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john
February 22nd, 2009
11:33 am
this president did not inherit this job he campaigned and fought for the oppurtunity. so when will he stop crying about bush
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Davis
February 22nd, 2009
11:37 am
He’s a great ‘emcee’ and host, the professionals who really KNOW what they want to do, thats not to say its good for us, are giving him the script and the so called ‘main stream elitist liberal media’ are making sure he is comfortable and his ego is on the constant rise, what a joke with all the idiotic idolizing from the teeming masses, most of which are like sheep being led to the slaughter!
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
11:39 am
what a mistake the american people have made!! we`ve elected a community organizer from the most corrupt political system in the country to lead our great nation.I only hope we survive long enough to vote him and his liberal handlers out of office before they ruin us all
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Deanna
February 22nd, 2009
11:40 am
President Obama has barely been in office 30 days. This country & the economy are messed up pretty bad. It can’t be fixed overnight & we shouldn’t expect that. I choose to see the glass as half full, not half empty. I am positive he can & will do a great job.
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conrad
February 22nd, 2009
11:42 am
he is doing a great job ,even if the haters dont think so,what can he do in 30 days that took 8 years to create,get real,give our president a break,that few dollars you will lose on your taxes ,is nothing,keep up the good work mr president,god bless you .
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sandy
February 22nd, 2009
11:46 am
The best our country can HOPE for is that BHO will be a one term president, otherwise the USA will be renamed USSRA! I am sick and tired of the democratic rhetoric of “helping the American people” by taking from hard-working, tax-paying, mortgage-paying, budget- to- make- ends- meet and raise responsible children citizens!!!! ENOUGH. When my husband and I were late with our mortgage payments, NO ONE BAILED US OUT- We did it the old-fashioned way, we scrimped and scraped and made concessions, worked more and made those payments. When we have had to pay additional payments on our income, we paid the penalties. Now, as it stands we will continue to pay our mortgage and the mortgages or the other SOB’S that can’t pay “theirs” because they shouldn’t have been in the #@*% house in the first place! In addition, when Uncle Sam sends me a tax bill I have to pay the penalty or I get a lien placed on my property…. too bad I can’t follow the same rules as the elite Obama administration has! This stimulus will cause to the greatest cultural revolution in the history of our country. Many of the outraged Americans will revolt, as we are sick and tired of carrying the deadbeats with entitlement mentality. The only thing this bill will do is continue to keep democratic deadbeat voters , democratic deadbeat voters for generations to come! Most shocking is not BHO policies, but that stupid people that voted for him are now upset about the stimulus packages. You suckers are responsible for $rewing us all!!!
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Kathleen
February 22nd, 2009
11:48 am
Barack Hussien Obama was elected by the racist blacks and liberal left afraid to offend them.This is the beginning of the end for our free country.A president should be elected on the merit of his experience and the best ideas for our country……not the color of his skin.
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NDNGRL
February 22nd, 2009
11:57 am
Once again, reading this comments from these Redneck Georgia people drive me crazy. Obama has to clean up the mess that GW put us in and yes, he has been working since Day 1. Nothing happens overnight. Let the man do his job and help us. He’s doing the best than he can for a country with millions of people. All while GW sat around and too vacations to his ranch or whatever, and could care less about the minorities in this country. Where was he during Katrina? He came FOUR days later. GW has made a mockery out of the USA. Go around the world, you rednecks, and see what people have said about the USA for the past 8 years. I have been all over the world, and have talked to other nationalities and they think GW was the biggest idiot. But in the past year, while traveling, people around the globe have praised Barack Obama and said that who we NEED.
Redneck, racists people need to move somewhere else.
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
11:57 am
Kathleen, your right,he was treated like a rock star instead of a presidential canidate.most of the people who voted for him had no idea what his views were. now their finding out. i could care less about the color of his skin but he was`nt qualified to lead our great country. i only hope that people will wake up and vote all these liberal loons out before they destroy a way of life so many have scarificed to sustain
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PBRowan
February 22nd, 2009
12:02 pm
He’s doing an outstanding job!
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NDNGRL
February 22nd, 2009
12:04 pm
“another bubba”
–My point exactly.
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
12:07 pm
NDNGIRL,let me get this straight if i disagree with you that maks me a racist redneck? i`ll proudly wear the redneck label but i think you should look in the mirror before you call some body a racist.boh and the rest of the liberals are leading down the path of destruction.as far as minorties i must be one of them cause i`ve never gotten or asked for a handout from anybody. hardwork and determination are to keys to sucess that not waiting for some to give you a handout
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Jodie
February 22nd, 2009
12:09 pm
Geitner’s plan may turn out to be OK, but he missed a real opportunity to mix some MEANINGFUL REAL STIMULUS into the bill like reducing the 2nd HIGHEST CORPORATE TAX RATE IN THE WORLD, and he chose to spend the entire trillion paying political debts to unions, the NEA, the greens, etc. Oh yeah, I forgot we get $13 a week extra.
Don’t forget about the protectionism slipped in as “Buy American”….. If you want to guarantee a depression, please start a trade war, you idiots….. Please, make us all poorer at the to appease a few steel producers. It worked so well in 1930…..
Sad, really.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:11 pm
Forget your bias and political prejudice.
It hasn’t been 30 days and people are running for job evaluations of President Obama. Since when was 30 days the measure of a President?
I would hope your boss does you the same favor after 30 days
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fed up
February 22nd, 2009
12:11 pm
I wouldn’t say he’s doing a terrible job or a good job. It’s too soon to say. I don’t agree with the “grow government” spending bill, the mortgage bail out either especially the $1k a person gets if they make their payments for one year, isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? Why get rewarded for that. Isn’t it reward enough to have your house? For the post that says we should call him “President Obama” that’s ridiculous considering the names Bush was called for 8 years. For the other posts that claim Obama inherited this mess, back off of that, he was in Congress before he became President, even though he spent most of the time campaigning for President and voted the majority of time “present.” This grow government bill is nothing more than vote buying and paying back those that put him in office. It’s more like a Pelosi/Reid presidency than it is an Obama presidency. Perhaps the ?? should be how are they doing?
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:12 pm
Having said that President Obama has been decisive, thoughtful and tough during the most critical period in United States history
Thank you for the 8 years of damage George Bush
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toby cash
February 22nd, 2009
12:14 pm
Before the election, Obama and the Dems had a solution for every ill in America, but now that they are in the driver seat, they do not have the PLANS necessary. It is easier to criticize than find solutions.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:14 pm
Kathleen – unless you can validate your fear of President Obama, you need to go read a book
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BJ
February 22nd, 2009
12:15 pm
SORRY PERFORMANCE SO FAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHANGE !!!!!!!!
SAME OLD DEMOCRATIC SOLUTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!
DID NOT WORK FOR ROOSEVELT EITHER !!!!!!
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:15 pm
Sarah – unprepared?
you make me laugh.
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saleem
February 22nd, 2009
12:15 pm
Let’s see;
OBAMA’S TWO-WEEK RECAP
1. The American people elect a black president with a total of 42 days experience as a U S Senator from the most politically corrupt state in America whose governor is ousted from office. The President’s first official act is to close Gitmo and make sure Terrorists civil rights are not violated.
2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a black Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.
3. The CIA Boss, Leon Penetta with absolutely no experience, has a daughter Linda we find out, that is a true radical anti-American activist who is a supporter of all the Anti-American regimes in thewestern hemisphere.
4. We got the most corrupt female in America as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.
5. We got a Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who files his own taxes.
6. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges.
7. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges.
8. A Labor Sec’y nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct.
9. A Sec’y HHS nominee who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes.
And that’s just the first two weeks. but who’s counting. ‘Nuff said…….
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
12:17 pm
Misterearl, with respect sir it was clinton,reid,barney frank and other liberals that insisted that everbody should be able to buy a house weather they could afford it or not.
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Bonnie Little
February 22nd, 2009
12:17 pm
As for Obama – I can’t wait to see the bank executives, auto executives, wall street executives out in coveralls building roads and bridges – he did say “jobs for everyone” didn’t he. What a joke he is. What a disgrace and shame to this country. He gripes about stepping into a deficit, if memory serves me right, he voted for the bailout last year did he not?? He is proving to be just another politician who can’t tell the truth. He just does it with charisma which makes the young people of this country who know no better drool – it’s hypnotism at it’s finest.
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outspoken1
February 22nd, 2009
12:18 pm
I continued to be sickened by the out burst against this President.
Let me say I did NOT vote for him and I don’t believe for a second he should be in office, but he is.
Now, If you want someone to blame for the sickness and perversion that is sweeping America, agree with me that I am the one to blame.
I am convinced that the very person you see in your mirror is to blame for this discusting mess we are in. We have allowed our gov’t to get so big and out of control and we deserve whatever they throw our way.
If Ameicans had balls we would have turned out every congressman and senator, PERIOD! Yes, this includes yours too. Dump the entire infested
group and send in newly elected people that we can control with the push of a voting switch.
It is not the elected officals jobs to make sure we are happy and taken care of, it is our job. We do it every 2 and 4 years when we stand at a voting booth.
For the ones that say it is not your fault because you didn’t vote any of these freaks into office.
Your certainly to blame, next time VOTE!
I am glad I attended church this morning, this email could have gotten very ugly!
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:19 pm
What else would you expect from a silly 30 day AJC poll?
Georgia vote for McCain and Palin.
Sarah Palin would be much more acceptable in the Oval Office
They would have fixed the country by now you betcha
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JC
February 22nd, 2009
12:19 pm
The Republicans handed Obama the Titanic–after it had hit the iceberg. Now they continuously berate him as he makes a superhuman effort to rescue us.
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Trina
February 22nd, 2009
12:20 pm
Well George. If I could understand what you were trying to say, I would be happy to respond. But your grammar is pretty bad. I don’t want to say something that may be the total opposite of your point. Also, because the name is Trina, not Tina, I am hoping you were referring to me. If so, the part I did understand is something being my “best argument”. I’m glad you said you missed my point because it’s totally true. Furthermore, I don’t know why you felt it necessary to say that you are a retired BLACK man. There are many WHITE retired men that know people who needs more than a temporary job. President Obama didn’t say he was going to give people jobs that would last for the rest of their lives. He wants to stimulate the economy, the rest is up to us as a people. And to your point of being racist, there are some black people who hate other black people. The same goes for whites.
Since you are retired, maybe you should take a break from this blogging thing. It’s a bit over your head. Blogging wasn’t that big back in day.
Here, I will put it plain and simple so that you can understand…It’s too early to judge.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:21 pm
otherbubba – have you had your 30 day job performance evaluation yet?
gimme a break
Even Richard Nixon had a longer time to get acclimated and he was a crook
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:23 pm
JC – wht you said
The Titanic indeed.
John McCain would be exhausted by the pace Obama has set so far
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Eric
February 22nd, 2009
12:23 pm
This has been the biggest disaster in the history of the United States. In only 1 month, Barry has destroyed half of the country’s wealth and obligated the other half to pay for social welfare programs. The next 4 years will make Carter’s Presidency look like Camelot.. if we can’t dump him sooner.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:25 pm
What happened to the First 100 Days?
sheesh, you people so eager to throw rocks at The President are nuts
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John Fulton
February 22nd, 2009
12:25 pm
Obama is Bush all over again on foreign policy, and Franklin Roosevelt on domestic policy. He has made absolutely no changes (Gitmo will be studied, detainees will not be allowed access to US courts) in foreign policy. As far as domestic policy, he is spending money we don’t have on favorite programs of the left.
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
12:26 pm
yes i have earl,i`ve been in the same profession far over 30 yrs and i hope i can make it another 3 so i can retire.okay earl i`ll try to be fair if he can break away for pelosi and reid i might withhold judgement
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:26 pm
Eric – his name is not Barry
President Barack Hussein Obama
Get used to it dude
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Kathleen
February 22nd, 2009
12:28 pm
NDNGRL,I may be southern and redneck but I have educated myself with a masters and have also traveled the world. I do not vote for someone because of the color of their skin but for substance.I’m sure your visits to those socialist country’s did garner lots of praise for Barack Hussien Obama,they can’t wait to see America fall.You should also remember to give credit to nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for their creation of the mess we are in since they have had control of congress for the last two years. As for us rednecks getting out…..you should read up on what a redneck is.As far as racist….I agree ,why don’t you go now!
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:29 pm
another bubba – you are a great American
Thank you for having an open mind. Unlike some, you are able to think with less rancor and fear.
The President is just one man. To change things it will take the entire country to wake up to what damage has been inflicted for the better part of the last decade.
A decade
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4williec
February 22nd, 2009
12:29 pm
So the popular liberal excuse is that things were so bad when Obama took over. Seems to me that things were set up by major DNC operatives to take advantage of what they saw as a crisis and did indeed help manufacture it for political expediency. If indeed the ship was leaking, Obama and friends have put a torpedo into her…nice going. I think we can look forward to an unprecedented effort at making Obama look as good as possible while he learns on the job and his minions continue to hand feed liberal special interests all the while telling us it’s all about change and stimulating the economy. In truth it’s all about them staying in power as they stimulate their political nest eggs. Disgusting display of self interest that will cost us, our kids and our grandkids dearly. Democrats have redefined the word “greed”…think about it.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:34 pm
4williec – the moment the Republicans come up with an original solution the entire country will take notice
30 Days
Yeah right
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
12:34 pm
thank you earl.i am proud to refer to you as a great american also.we need to unite as americans. if you have a problem with goverment notify you elected represenatives i do quite frequently remeber they work for us.lets work together and get this great country back on track
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:35 pm
Kathleen – redneck is nothing to be proud of
If you have travelled the world as much as you claim, you would understand that prejudice and ignorance is not as fashionable as it was during the 1950’s
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Kathleen
February 22nd, 2009
12:40 pm
misterearl,for your information his name was Barry ,so called by his family and friends until he hooked up with some muslim friends in college.Mybe you should be the one reading a book.
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Scott
February 22nd, 2009
12:41 pm
YES WE CAN, Make things WORSE!
Obama is proving that he is the Chicago Thug Machine produced PUPPET politician.
In 30 days the Stock Market dropped a larger percentage in that time frame than for any other President in the History of our Country. This is the TRUE LITMUS poll.
The corrupt, colluding and electioneering Big Media are artificially propping him up in other opinion polls just like they did during the election.
He selected a cabal of the worst most controversial advisor’s and cabinet members in the history of any new presidential administration. His Press Secretary is the biggest BUFFOON on TV since Baghdad Bob.
His Stimulus Package will only stimulate the Democrat Party and will serve to take him down in 2012 to be the worst president in modern history that will bolster the image of Jimmy Carter to appear like a messiah of his time.
But he’s our BRO.
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Fred
February 22nd, 2009
12:41 pm
The “bailout” is not free money that has fallen from the wampum tree. We have to pay all this back through increased taxes. We are going into debt up to our eyeballs and will have to pay the bill for it for generations.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:42 pm
another bubba – the people who are eager to see the President (and the country) fail, are nothing more than poor losers. They are like the spoiled kid who takes his toys and cries in the corner if he can’t have his or her way.
President Obama will not be perfect, he has stated this many times.
How many Americans are willing to stand together and join to make the country better?
“I hope he fails”
I hope he gets more than 30 days before the crybabies throw tantrums
Sound familiar?
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Boots
February 22nd, 2009
12:43 pm
Republicans need to quit whinning and get on board. Your worn out policies have resulted in a marginalized party that is totally inconquential to what’s happening in this country.
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Misterearl
February 22nd, 2009
12:45 pm
Katleen – unless you can refer to the man as PRESIDENT Barack Obama you are only demonstrating your obvious resentment
what are you so afraid of?
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Tim
February 22nd, 2009
12:53 pm
I’ll keep my Religion
I’ll keep my guns
I’ll keep my liberty
YOU keep the “Change”
Welcome Back Carter
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Tim
February 22nd, 2009
12:53 pm
Enter your comments here
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amused
February 22nd, 2009
12:57 pm
That 13 bucks a week amounts to the largest middle class tax cut in history. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts resulted in 3 bucks a week.
He’s worked hard on the stimulus so it can to save jobs and the economy. The next time one of you sorry whiners post that he should fail, remember that one of the jobs he saves may just be your own.
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Liberal
February 22nd, 2009
12:58 pm
Ya have to give the President a thumbs up. He is doing morein one month than George W. did in 8 years. And President Obama is having to clean up all the mess from the Bush years.
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Rick
February 22nd, 2009
1:03 pm
I love how if you do not like prezbo you are a racist. I do not like the person, I do not care what color he is, he is incompetent. When you figure in the government employee’s , welfare recipients, union workers, and the rest of the bottom feeding scum who vote, the true Americans have no chance, I have given up on this country. The people here write in how Bush was bad, No way, history will show he is a Great man and a great leader. The money spent in Iraq was money well spent. Remember, congress spends the money , not the President. We have been at the short end of the dems in the house and senate for a long time and the trouble facing this nation is their fault. The GOP has failed to grow a pair and stand up to the the left and do the right thing. All obama has done is rehash all the old clinton thugs. I always thought it was funny how dems wanted higher taxes, no I know why, they don’ t pay unless it means getting a job.
Remember the words of Thomas Jefferson: The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time.
true words indeed.
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Ken
February 22nd, 2009
1:06 pm
That Long-legged, bi-racial, mac-daddy has been and will continue to be a joke. A total failure.
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truewordgirl
February 22nd, 2009
1:10 pm
Whah, whah, whah! Poor whiney Republicans! Ya just can’t believe you didn’t get to steal the election again! Bush II is the one who has nearly ruined what was once a great country. There was NO fiscal deficit when he took office (although under his father, Bush I, there was a substanial one that the Dems turned around). By the time Bush II left, we were $412 billion in the red. Obama is moving swiftly and firmly, is simultaneously compassionate and firm, and I love the guy. HE is going to the the one to save us, if anyone can. So quit your whining and own YOUR part in what resulted from the incompetent boob you repubs elected!
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Another point of view
February 22nd, 2009
1:10 pm
The biggest transfer of wealth is what we refer to as a bailout. Create paper money (fiat), give it to the mega bankers and let the american people pay the interest on this money the federal reserve has given away. This is also the way our government is run btw. Under our current structure absolutely nobody is capable of saving us. It’s a debt laden disaster unfolding before our eyes and we are to blame. Our forefathers would have been in Washington with pitchforks over alot less than this. All we do is vote in politicians that then tax everything we touch, and some things we dont.
Some think its a coincidence that our education system, health system, financial system and overall health have deteriorated so fast. It’s not. They have dumbed us down and taken the fight out of us. Just what you need to do before taking away peoples freedom, which is the next step.
Don’t blame O’bama or McCain or Pee Wee Herman, look at yourself. You’ve allowed this to happen and in a few years when your standard of living is closer to someone in Equador remember that today you had an opportunity to do something about it, but didnt.
Btw, this latest bailout/TARP/Stimulus package will be funded by your childrens taxes, which have already been spoken for. Another thing, as soon as we see a beam of light we’ll be hit with another disaster called SS and after that the biggy will hit as the gas supply comes to a screeching halt. Then you’ll see wars as any army needs fuel to move man and machinery. The real reason we’re in the middle east.
So quit blaming dems or repubs or anybody and look at what you’ve allowed to happen. And for those who are wondering things will NEVER go back to the old ways, 2004-5. LMAO Those who control the purse strings have demonstrated they can drain your finances whenever they’d like and all you’ll do is grumble and point fingers.
So dont blame OBAMA for whats happening. Just walk to the nearest mirror and look at the real reason america is about to become a 2nd rate nation.
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Jim G.
February 22nd, 2009
1:19 pm
It’s the standard liberal mentality on this board..if you disagree with Hussein, your a racist. Unfortunately we are going to have 4 years of this nonsense…remember, if Hussein does something good, it’s because he’s 1/2 black…if he does something you disagree with, it’s because he’s 1/2 black…I didn’t vote for Hussein, He is not representing my views at all, therefore, he’s not MY president…he’s just a slick talking hustler that comes from the corrupt Chicago political machine…Pelosi and Reid have already pimped him good….he will pay for it dearly..because this “Stimulus” will not succeed…never has, never will
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truewordgirl
February 22nd, 2009
1:20 pm
Umm, Kathleen? You DON’T have a Masters–that much is clear from your posts. You don’t know how to punctuate (country’s? you mean countries). Proper names, such as Nancy and Congress, are capitalized. Also, had you really earned a Masters (that, too, should be capped), I can’t imagine you’d refer to it as “educating yourself”–what ego! You don’t bother to proofread–or you do and don’t know the first thing about basic English rules. PLUS, what I discovered during my 5 years of post-grad work (yeah, doctoral degree with honors) is while you will certainly find both Dems & Reps in graduate school, they are generally speaking both open-minded and respectful of one another’s views. I’m willing to bet your ‘degree’ was purchased from the back of a magazine.
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Martha Cornish
February 22nd, 2009
1:23 pm
I am grateful we have a creative, intelligent, and patient statesman in office. He has begun to create reasonable solutions to the mess created by a government that ignored its responsibilities for too long and a public that has forgotten the necessity of good citizenship. I wish he did not face so much partisan opposition.
Hurrah for Obama!
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bubba
February 22nd, 2009
1:25 pm
i don`t think many people think ninny pelosi,reid, or most of congress are proper anymore incompetant may be a better term.as far as obama he`s just a liberal mouthpiece
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RedGADawg
February 22nd, 2009
1:27 pm
The Obama camp has not included any business leaders in a major role! He must plan his imperial rule based on academic theory, most of his cabinet are Clinton retreads, where is change, stifle iniative with taxes, why take economic risk to increase a small business employment and make capital expenditures if it only leads to higher taxes? Lala land is his practicum, the American population allowed this to happen and will suffer for years. For our service based economy the stimulus does not appear to hit the mark, it will stimulate the south of border illeagal migrant to return now we are committed to an intensive manual labor infrastructue job works program. Sad but true with got what the liberal left wanted. It will be interesting to watch the academics squeal when they are laid off because no one can get a job to pay the taxes that support the government bloat.
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G.B. Shaw
February 22nd, 2009
1:28 pm
A government that robs winners to pay losers can always depend on the support of losers.
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independent
February 22nd, 2009
1:28 pm
All the republicans complaining about a tax break when they swore all of 2008 that taxes would be raised? You’d think they’d be contrite.
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Mike D
February 22nd, 2009
1:34 pm
How can anyone evaluate him based on a month. Good or bad there hasn’t been enough time for anything to make it to the public. An evaluation now sounds like the days I worked for Coke and every two weeks they would promote Steve Heyer as the new president of something based on the extra ordinary work he did the two weeks previously. In the end Steve Heyer was just a shiny t*rd, I hope Obama has a better track record.
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Larry
February 22nd, 2009
1:34 pm
A sound and growing economy is built on one fundamental: People need to have trust and confidence in the overall economy. Based on this one fundamental truth of economic human behavior, I sincerely hope Barrack Obama will learn to strike two words from his vocabulary. (1) “Catastrophe”, especially when referring to the economy, and (2) “Nationalize”, specifically when referring to the banking industry.
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Steve
February 22nd, 2009
1:42 pm
All of our worst fears are coming to the front, but the problem is not just Obama, it’s the Deomcratic Congress and the traitor Republicans that are NOT representing what their people want.
The majority of the country was against both the firt bailout, which the Republicans were blocked until Bush forced it thru. The more recently passed bailout/stimulus was fought hard by the Republicans lokking out for the little people in 80% of the US, but traitors to the Conservative system pushed it thru.
And before any liberals say that this stimulus is a good thing you should know some facts, since most of you only read headlines. Most recessions last around two years. Racing taxes on the richer part of the population, and on companies, ALWAYS lengthens recessions. The just passed stimulus will raise taxes on the upper middle class, the wealthy, and most companies. The result is a bunch of payouts to companies in trouble because they pay their board members well into the millions, while the common employee for them earns middle class or below wages. Way to help the little guys Democrats!! Another significant amount will give roughly $8 a week to every taxpayer. WOW!! Considering the stimulus, after interest, is going to use roughly $7250 of every taxpayers payment to the government. Which do you think would stimulate spending more .. giving bigwigs and poorly run companies millions and taxpayers $400 (non=taxpayers get this as well, which is ridiculous) .. or giving the average taxpayer $7250 to use however they wish? I thought so.
Welcome to communism. Thank you for the change all of those who voted for Obama.
The great thing about this, is just like in the 70’s, the Democrats are going to stink up the place so badly, they should lose millions upon millions of voters and put themselves in a 20 year hole in elections. I say should, because it seems people who voted in the 70’s seemed far more intelligent than those voting now, so I am not sure the message will come across as well as it should.
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Another point of view
February 22nd, 2009
1:45 pm
Stay focused folks. This dem/repub thing is just the distraction to keep us off course. Distractionary politics have been used to get things done for to long. Not one person has mentioned the real reason our country is in this position. It’s pathetic how you start blaming the guy next door when the real opponent is the one thats actually creating the fiancial policies.
I will say this, I wish I was on their side because a few well informed people can lead the masses around like puppies on a string. SMH
Here’s a question. How can everything you touch be taxed, to include the workers income that produce it and the materials used to create it, yet our country is borrowing money and paying interest just to function?
And whoever said congress spends the money is wrong. Congress is told where to spend and how much to spend.
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John Henry Coltraine
February 22nd, 2009
1:46 pm
“How do you rate the president’s job?”—–shitty..
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Aksarben
February 22nd, 2009
1:54 pm
Well, after 30 days in office, Obama is a disappointment. He is way over his head and definitely unprepared for the serious issues facing our country. He offers no hope, only fear.
He thinks somehow that $8 a week is going to stimulate the econmy and now he wants to put our money into bailing out people — many of whom — knew full well they were over their heads when they agreed to the mortgages in the first place.
He is a over his head. It will be a long time until 2012 …
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Me
February 22nd, 2009
1:56 pm
Awful. “change we can believe in” apparently means appointing all lobbyists and tax-cheats to the Cabinet. How is that change? How about pushing through an $800 billion pork pile as a “stimulus” package. I’m sure all the new doggie parks and skate parks and Frisbee golf courses will have other world economic leaders shaking in their boots.
Presbo is swimming in the deep end and he’d never even waded in the kiddie pool before. But no one in the media will ever admit buyers remorse. You’re not allowed to criticize a black President in public.
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DJ
February 22nd, 2009
1:56 pm
Someone please answer this: What will the naysayers say IF the president’s plan does work? Will you make another reason to complain or will you give credit where it’s do? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the previous stimulus plan didn’t or hasn’t worked (before) Obama. Common sense is to take a different approach. Either way, there are cry babies who can’t spell or use bad grammar but insist on blogging . I love it because you all hate it. Go Obama!
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Me
February 22nd, 2009
2:01 pm
To “REAL.” You say we should address the President with respect. Were you outraged when people referred to the immediate Past President as “Shrub”? I’m sure you were up in arms and defending his honor and respect at every turn, correct?
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Me
February 22nd, 2009
2:04 pm
Hey, DJ – the previous stimulus package was created by the Democrat Congress. So – this is nothing new, just monumentally larger and doomed to fail just as much.
Also – the economy will turn around. It’s what’s known as being “cyclical.” If the economy had turned around 6 months ago – you left-wing bedwetters would have said it was either cyclical or the result of Hope in the Messiah – Presbo. It has to go both ways. No one man can push a lever and change the world’s economy. And certainly, a package full of useless pork isn’t going to do anything to fix this.
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Ray
February 22nd, 2009
2:04 pm
The economy is hurting. He just pushed through a trillion dollar payback bill (payback to all those who helped him win). We have his union buddies pushing for more money for the big three. And what is the first legislation he signs? Providing federal funds to promote the slaughter of the unborn around the world.
If this is “change”, I’ll prefer to keep the status quo.
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Dandy
February 22nd, 2009
2:07 pm
WOW! It’s amazing seeing the negative comments on here. Did Obama just take office and weren’t we already in this mess before he took the oath…… so come on.. rate him in three years.
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alice
February 22nd, 2009
2:07 pm
Ian, thank you for writing so well. It is difficult to take seriously those who cannot spell and do not understand grammar.
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DJ
February 22nd, 2009
2:08 pm
Hey Me-The previous stimulus package was created by the Democrats but signed by who? Re-read my question and try again. I didn’t ask about the party.
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Rick
February 22nd, 2009
2:22 pm
What I want to know is.. if Black Americans are “African-American” shouldn’t White Americans then be “European-Americans?” How many black people today are actually *from* Africa and how many white people are actually *from* Europe? (There will be some on both sides, but I would venture to guess that is the minority). I realize the history of each culture but in order to overcome the race issue prevalent today in this country, we need to remove classifications of White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, etc and realize we, at our core, are all people, plain and simple. Until that happens, these types of discussions (racism, black vs. white, etc..) will continue to be commonplace and that is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in this country since the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr and the many others who fought for equality for ALL, not just one race.
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P O F
February 22nd, 2009
2:23 pm
He has done a very poor job as President/Commander in Chief. As a politician campaigning/marketer he has been ok. If you really want to compare it to a regular 9 to 5 job, he probably would have been fired due to lying in the interview, if someone was dumb enough to hire him, even though he obviously did not have the experience. The truth is some people are going to say he did a great job no matter what, and others are going to say he did a terrible job no matter what. Simple facts are, he just doubled the deficit in less than 2 months. If you want to compare him to Bush, it took Bush almost 8 years. He was not truthful when campaigning (as he is a politician, that was expected by me). However, for those that crossed the lines, it is a bit of a betrayal and betrayal is always looked upon as negative. He supported a terrible stimilus bill because those around him convinced him it did not matter what was in the bill as long as he spent enough money, which as a President is not good. The President is supposed to lead not be led. What happened to the transparency he promised. We really won’t know how the first month will pan out for probably 10-20 years, but so far he has not adhered to his own standards and for those of us that are paying enough attention to notice this, he has performed poorly.
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Chris
February 22nd, 2009
2:27 pm
He is doing exactly as his liberal record stated he would do. He is making our government larger and the whole country dependant on them. When people’s votes are for money in their pockets, a democracy will fail. Period. We need change from this “change”. We need a new Reagan after this Carter.
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John Galt Jr.
February 22nd, 2009
2:31 pm
I feel great knowing my hard work, thriftiness, obligation and personal responsibility in paying my mortgages and debts, personal responsibility in the types of loans I take out, matter not. Now I get to pay for those who made and will continue to make dumb decisions. The ones who make good decisions will continue to carry the water for those who do not. When you pull from Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul’s vote. This is how Obama got elected. McCain was really not much better of a choice.
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Bad News Barrak
February 22nd, 2009
2:33 pm
I didn’t vote for him but I pray for him to do the right thing. Too bad he’s just another in a long list of tax and spend liberals with a twist. The anger that flows from this administration is scary. Equality? Seems more like retribution to me. An all out attack on those of us who go to work every day, pay our share of the ever increasing taxes and actually feed our children breakfast and lunch without relying on the taxpayer to do it. The entitlement mentality so ingrained in the Obama supporters is what is ruining this country.
You want to get the economy going again? Slash personal income taxes, cut corporate tax rates so companies can invest again and cut the capital gains tax. The economy will skyrocket. No country has ever taxed it’s way to prosperity and it isn’t going to work now.
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Jason Kibby
February 22nd, 2009
2:34 pm
Dismal. Frightening. Obscene. Wasteful. Socialist. Period.
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Georgia Girl
February 22nd, 2009
2:38 pm
Though I did not, nor will I EVER vote for Obama – I have to agree with those who say he has done what he has set out to do. His goal is to make Americans so dependent on the government that they willingly give up the rights set forth in the Constitution by our forefathers. He has rushed through his “econmoic stimulus” package so quickly that no one even knows what it says – get ready for more. Obama’s only goal is to cripple Americans so that he can have more power.
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deanerdawg
February 22nd, 2009
2:39 pm
Obumba is doing a terrible job. All those whom voted for him will be singing the tune of buyers remorse in 3 yrs. He is taking us down the road to socialism. Bush is not responsible for the economic mess. The sin of man is..It’s preposterous to think man can spend his way out of his own woes..the people fail to realize that the democraps had both houses of congress since 2006 and have done nothing with it..It’s their fault..2010 the GOP will take back the house and the whitehouse in 2012. Until then, it’s going to be a bump ride with the socialism and immorality forced upon us.
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Justin Davis
February 22nd, 2009
2:39 pm
Let’s see… so far he’s decided to let a bunch of terrorists off easy, put us in a crapload of debt, continued to support lazy people living off of the gov’t, and put a little band-aid on the economy by pumping up companies that can’t seem to do a good job anyway (there’s a REASON foreign cars are becoming more popular). I won’t deny that he has a certain personality, but he’s all talk. He didn’t even write “his” stimulus bill, and doubt he could have if he wanted to. Some of the bills he has passed are just scary. I can only hope he doesn’t do too much damage before his four years are up.
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Mark
February 22nd, 2009
2:40 pm
This country just jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Blacks can’t lead. They were trained to follow. It’s going to be a long 4 years……
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Mitch
February 22nd, 2009
2:40 pm
Considering the miserable state that George W Bush left this country in, I think that Mr Obama is doing a very credible job. Obama has already succeeded in passing an economic stimulus package, aimed at jump starting the economy. Obama is an extremely dilligently worker, and, most importantly, he is honest with the American people, about the state of our country, and the state of affairs around the world. This unlike George W Bush, whose blatant lie about weapons of mass destruction, led us into a war that has lasted six years, and cost 4,000 American soliders lives.
I say, considering the state of this country, it is impossible to judge a president in his first 30 days. Mr Obama will need a year, to really have time to accomplish things, and for people to arrive at a fair judgement of his presidency. Based upon what he has done so far, though, I like what I see.
Prediction: This country will be in far better shape in November 2012, when it is time for Obama to run for re election, then George W Bush left it in on January 20,2009.
Mitch
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tab
February 22nd, 2009
2:41 pm
Just wanted to say, that this is only our president first 30 days in office, I think it is unfair to judge him weather he is good or bad. I do think he is doing a great job at this time,we all should spend our time as a great country supporting and praying for our country and president,that we will be able to grow above this disaster we are in at this time.No one is perfect,but I can say he is working very hard at making a change, so that things will be better in the future. President Obama is a very educated and smart man,let’s give him a try. May God bless all of us and this country
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Lauren
February 22nd, 2009
2:44 pm
NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE THINK THAT OBAMA IS GREAT! I too am against this stupid bill that is giving people on WELFARE more FREAKIN money!!! not all black people are on welfare! and “Brenda Tucker” its 2009, why do we need to have “tolerance for people of color?” not all “people of color” (as you put it) have to be tolerated. you mean bush didnt feel the need to CARRY the lazy people on their backs that refuse to work and obama is. are you implying that all people of color are that way, and have to be TOLERATED? I hope not, because that sure sounds racist to me!
I cant believe this crap. I have two jobs and im a student, and I wont benifit AT ALL from this crap. I mean, my parents make too much money for hardly any financial aid, and we arent enrolled in anytype of government assistance. too bad for us right?
Just because you disagree with obama doesnt mean your a racist, white people, and dont you think that all of us black people think that crap! you ask these radical black people that voted for obama (most of which wouldnt have voted other wise, just wanted to be part of history…) to tell you something about obama (and I mean politically, not about his wife or what his daughters were wearing, I mean the important stuff like what he plans to do with this country) and they haven’t a clue. i’m only 23 years old, and Im uncertain about what the future holds as well. I just hope that the senate and the house do their jobs of checks and balances because if it DOES all go wrong Obama wont be the only one responsible!
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bubba
February 22nd, 2009
2:47 pm
God bless you Lauren.You make a excellent point. Best of Luck in your future endeavors
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ZAGONE JACOBS
February 22nd, 2009
2:52 pm
The little guy needs a break, not Wall Street! Thanks OBAMA. Conservatives had 8 years and look at the mess that was handed to this new administration. Now you say you have a plan to fix eight years of your own political screw-ups ! America has heard it all before, just sit in the back seat and shut up !
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fed up
February 22nd, 2009
2:55 pm
Lauren you are exactly right. I would also add that some people (other than black folks) also voted for him to be part of history. People got so caught up in the “let’s vote a black man into the presidency” that they didn’t even look at his “resume.” That’s the problem I had with him I could care less what color he was.
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from TEXAS to Georgia to Texas
February 22nd, 2009
2:56 pm
Good job Ray. Slaughter of the unborn.! Are we a nation willing to allow our babies to be murdered in the womb,before they are given the chance to be all that GOD HAD PLANNED FOR THEM TO BE.! By supporting organizations with funding who do these such things is a slap in our HOLY GOD’S FACE.! I was a child that was brought into this world as a result of my mother being raped. My mother loved me enogh to carry me to term, and she gaave me up for adoption. I was adopted and loved by two wonderful people. I have some physical challenges, but,our GOD has carried me through them all, and promises me in his word that ” he will never forsake me”. I am not critical of someone that GOD says he put into this place of earthly authority. “We are to give to Caeser what is Caesers.” But, God giveth and takes away. It is not and should not be our role as a Christian nation to support killing our unborn babies. The PRESIDENT OF OUR GREAT NATION SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER DIDNT BELIEVE IN ABORTION. Lets just love each other and support the man that GOD HAS placed in this position. God Bless Our Nation.
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jay
February 22nd, 2009
2:56 pm
I think President Obama is in over his head. I can’t believe he sayd he inherited this problem. No! He saw what he thought was a problem and actively sought the office of President because he thought he was the man for the job. He didn’t inherit anything. He said during the campaign that he had solutions. Go for it President Obama but please don’t complain about the job you spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get.
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Moe
February 22nd, 2009
2:58 pm
I’m praying for all of you! You people should be ashamed of your comments, I could give each and every one of you a good tounge lashing but I won’t stoop to your ingnorant level…say what you will but at the end of the day Barack Hussein Obama is President so get over it!!!!
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Art
February 22nd, 2009
3:02 pm
Using scare tactics to push through a bill only to jet off to Chicago in Air Force One for a 3-day Valentine’s Day/President’s Day weekend and then to Denver for a flashy bill signing ceremony. Huh? I don’t get it! We’re either in a crisis and need leadership and decisive action now or it’s all a bunch of rhetoric… and by many of this President’s actions it’s all a bunch of rhetoric. Thus far he seems more interested in trying out all of the bells and whistles of his new office, e.g. Camp David, Air Force One, etc. and holding cocktail parties and dinners and being on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine than he does fixing the problems of our Nation. I didn’t vote for the man but dammit he’s my President now too and I expect him to get down to business and put an end to all of this self-aggrandizement. Leadership starts at the top and I’m sorry but President Obama is not showing leadership.
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Center-Right
February 22nd, 2009
3:06 pm
First, it’s been a month. It’s too early. There is some good and bad in this bill. Happy to see the ‘energy’ initiatives in the bill. Happy to see the tax cuts (and I will see very little benefit from these), happy to see the infrastructure spending (wish this had been the focus).
Second, those who play the race card lose credibility right out of the gate. It tells everyone who reads this that ‘you’ are a racist. Do not believe me?
rac•ism (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Third, totally agree that President Obama should always be addressed with the title President ‘first’. Too bad that most of you could not show that respect for our previous President.
Fourth, if you honestly believe that everything wrong with this country fell on the shoulders of this previous administration, you are either naive or ignorant. Some names you should research:
Senator Frank and Senator Dodd (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).
President Clinton’s Administration (laws changed in our banking system that last two years of his administration). The Bush administration tried to change multiple times and ran into significant interference from the Senators mentioned above.
President Clinton (opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden).
Our past President and the Republican Party (for six years) spent like drunken sailors. So far, the Democrats seem determine to ‘out spend’ them, which I did not think was possible.
Fifth, money supply. There is only so much money that any market can bare and be loaned out. Much of that was just sucked away by the US government. The only way that more money becomes available is by expanding the economy. This administration is betting that the money they are taking away from free enterprise will do just that. We all should hope and pray that they are correct.
I’ll give the man and his administration a chance. Certainly more than many of you ever gave our last President.
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Smart @$$
February 22nd, 2009
3:11 pm
He SUX.
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Vasily
February 22nd, 2009
3:11 pm
Looks like the American people have been coned by a great public speaker.
President Obama promised us change. He promised the American people transparency, and he has not delivered.
Promised to give the public time to review bills before he signed them. Hasn’t done it yet.
Promised to get rid of the Bush tax cuts, but had decided to let them expire.
Promised to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now is deploying more troops to Afghanistan.
Promised to give detainees in Cuba access to the US Justice system. Denied them constitutional rights after he ordered Gitmo shut down.
Promised to clean up Washington but then appointed tax criminals to his cabinet.
Promised to be a leader in Washington, then allowed Pelosi to form the stimulus package
And that’s only in 30 days…
But none of this means anything because the press treats him like a rock star and not a president.
And, somehow, since I think he has broken his promises, that makes me a raciest.
But there is a silver lining. Obama preached change and hope in his campaign, and it appears as though his positions are changing. Now that gives me hope.
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frankly
February 22nd, 2009
3:12 pm
Awful.
Far left policies unlike anything he said during the campaign and have NEVER worked when tried in the past.
Several of cabinet nominations have had to withdraw but he says they have been selected with “the highest standards”.
Already broken several campaign promises to be “open and transparent”.
Oh and inviting republicans to dinner was just a show when he then in private says “I won” so my way rules. Its childish and dishonest considering his public stated goals.
But by far worst of all, is that we have real enemies in the world that can sense that Obama is in over his head and they already appear to be flexing their muscles. This is a VERY dangerous time for the US to get complacent and/or have naive leadership.
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Slack
February 22nd, 2009
3:12 pm
Truthfully, you must give President Barack Obama some leeway, considering he’s been in office 30 days. Can you really judge a man’s character and morals from 30 days of action out of 4 years? What with an economic slump, and 8 years of the age of indecisions and bad decisions of those that were decided, you can’t expect the President to pull a Superman! The Republicans had their chance, and blew it. I do not mean to entirely offend Ex-President George Bush, but he did not do anything to help the economy, while the press gave him worse and worse breaks. Even so, the people of the U.S.A. own up to some of the problems themselves. If President Barack Obama fixes problems, no one can expect all of them to disappear. We have to meet him more than halfway for anything to get done in this day and age. We can not blame all of our problems on the figurehead when the new Administration has been in effect for only 30 days. And to those who complain of the “defective Administration”, do not forget that many of these are reprecussions from the previous Bush Administration. And to all of you complaining Republicans who think someone could have done better, you can’t do anything wasting your complaints now. President Barack Obama is in Office, and it does no good and too much harm to condemn him further. To get this country of ours out of this rut that Ex-President George Bush just dug deeper, we need to act now. Yes We Can!
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dls
February 22nd, 2009
3:15 pm
It will only get worse, you can’t expect someone who has NEVER accomplished anything in a leadership role to suddenly lead, He’s a news hype something that should have never happened
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joe
February 22nd, 2009
3:18 pm
Shame on me for wasting 10 minutes of my life even reading this stupid discussion.
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oldmac
February 22nd, 2009
3:19 pm
No problem with a black president. Big problem with a liberal president. Heck, read the resumes of some of his cabinet and close advisors-some of them are as lefty radical as they come. I blame blame Bush for a lot of this. We he had both houses of congress on his side, he had the chance to just about crush liberalism, (at least set it back) and now since he let them off the hook, we’re slouching toward socialism. Let’s hope that the new generations “professional blacks” realize that it’s their country now and they had to earn their wealth just like everybody else. Maybe they won’t think too kindly about Obie redistributing the wealth.
JN
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Sam From Georgia
February 22nd, 2009
3:20 pm
Mark,
When you went to bed last night, this country was headed by President Obama. When you go to bed tonight, this country will be headed President Obama. With your continued leadership and the wisdom of those who think like you, he will be re-elected in 2012.
Deal with it.
Welcome to the new America. We will rise again under the leadership of President Obama, a true Americam. GOD bless America.
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shelly
February 22nd, 2009
3:22 pm
Big – fat – ZERO! He is not a leader nor will he ever be a leader! This man has an agenda and his best interest lies only in getting his agenda accomplished, not doing what is in the best interest of the American people.
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Slack
February 22nd, 2009
3:22 pm
And not to seem redundant, but as much as you think you are “let down” because President Barack Obama did not fulfill ABOSLUTELY EVERYTHING that he promise in 30 DAYS, that’s the way these Presidential candidates have been doing it for a long time. Ex-President Bush promised us the things that we wanted to hear. Over a 4-year term he gave us (or shall I say took from us) the exact opposite of what he promised to us. And yet we elected him again. Why? Because some of us believed and refused to look at the truth. Faith isn’t everything, time is the true answer. I truthfully dislike, almost hate, those who demand their instant gratification while they patiently sat out the 7th worst president in his 2nd term. Those who do want their instant gratification may enjoy taking a look at Hofstede and his concept of the ‘desirable’ vs. ‘desired’. Let us make the two into one, and stop this useless whining…
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Bob Walters
February 22nd, 2009
3:26 pm
I am appalled at the unpatriotic behavior of my fellow Americans. The US is facing a crisis far greater than anything the US has encountered since WWII. Even the CIA has reported to Congress that this crisis is far more dangerous than terrorism. As true patriots, we need to rally around our elected officials and support our president. United we stand, divided we fall.
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Sam From Georgia
February 22nd, 2009
3:27 pm
For those of you who do not believe in the current adminstration’s plans.
What are your ideas to help our country?
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Sam From Georgia
February 22nd, 2009
3:34 pm
Blaming the size of the government is not a plan. Remember, we tried “tax cuts” and “deregulation” for the past 8 years. We invaded a country looking for “WMD”, but found none.
This country has selected new leadership to take us in a different direction. Either provide some solutions or stop complaining.
Change has come to America!!!
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Helen A. Handbasket
February 22nd, 2009
3:34 pm
I voted for him but so far he’s broken many of the promises he made so I am very disappointed in his performance thus far. The fact that he said he would bring the troops home and that he is anti-war and then to find out he is sending more troops in to Iraq and Afghanistant is the major disappointment. I know it didn’t make the news that he is sending them to Iraq but being in a military family I know he is. Also the fact that he bailed out companies that should have been allowed to collapse and as a result the rich CEO’s got even more money and bonuses as a result just appalls me. Why did Obama not consider helping out the American taxpayer rather than rich corporate leaders and owners? We needed it more but as a result he is placing the burden of repaying the money on us while the CEO’s enjoy spas etc. Obama also did not stop the lobbyists and special interest groups from controlling Washington like he said he would either. All in all I give him a failing grade for his actions thus far and I regret ever voting for him.
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pepper
February 22nd, 2009
3:39 pm
Has he started “working” yet? I only see deficit spending which will bury my pre-teen grandchildren with debt! Hey Sam From GA – whose been in control of our inept congress for the past 3 plus years? Your simple advice – provide solutions or stop complaining! Further proof that knowledge without wisdom is blatantly useless……….
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kclubmember
February 22nd, 2009
3:39 pm
To Kathleen and Another Bubby:Where did you two go to school?Were you two homeschooled,or did you receive your diplomas from a mail order catalog?Just asking!
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Sam From Georgia
February 22nd, 2009
3:42 pm
Helen,
I recall the promise was to bring the troops home from Iraq within a reasonable time period (18 months). This is day 22 of the new admistration.
The first wave of funds that went to the Banks as you say the CEOs started prior to January 20th.
As an American I am willing to at least give the president some time to lead us in a different direction.
Our challenges and problems were not created in 22 days and I do not believe that it is realistic to expect them to be solved instantly.
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white trash with money
February 22nd, 2009
3:44 pm
I think Obama is still shocked that his there. He seems to still be in campaign mode, parading himself around the country to push his awful socialist entitlement plan. Now he wants to punish the producers of the country by raising their taxes. This will destroy us.
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JWC
February 22nd, 2009
3:45 pm
First let me say that Iam NOT partisan.I have voted for George Bush and Bill Clinton.
As a fiscal conservative and cultural moderate, I really wanted to give President Obama a chance before I judged. He is an articulate, intelligent man and I assumed that he would put as his highest priority to bring our country out of the recession/depression we are currently in. I had prayed that he would push Congress to do what was necessary. I was hoping that “change’ truly meant change.
I fully understand that he is under political pressure to pass legislation that appeases the more progressve/liberal Congress but I had hoped he would delay or at least spread out the inflation producing, politically motivated legislation.
After downloading and reading the Stimulus Bill and researching it, I realized that my hopes were obliterated. In just 30 days, he has already proven to be as or more partisan than President Bush. I am very, very dissappointed.
My only hope is that the congressional elections of 2010 will force Obama to the center or he will back in Chicago watching the Sox play.
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Mark
February 22nd, 2009
3:46 pm
Sam From Georgia’
Your belief in a g-d is proof that you are an idiot. Deal with it, you ignorant lemming.
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Sam From Georgia
February 22nd, 2009
3:48 pm
Pepper,
I concur, knowledge without wisdom is useless…, however I did not see your solutions outlined in your response.
In four years, the question that each American must ask. Are we better off than we were when the current adminstration came to power.
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Another point of view
February 22nd, 2009
3:50 pm
Dls- did you see Bush’s record before he became president? Every company he ran collapsed yet he always made money. He ran the country just like his private companies.
And all presidents are products of the media, but then again who isn’t? I’m still trying to figure out where Britney Spears talent lies. Thats one of our problems too, the media tells us what to believe because we dont want to think for ourselves.
Listen folks, our country doesn’t produce anything and production is the life blood of any great country. We allowed our government to ship our best jobs over to a country that now owns us.
What industry will lead us out of this situation? Automotive? Real Estate? Tansportation? Nope. 2/3rds of our economy is you heading to the mall and shopping and you dont have the funds to do that so we’ll have to wait for the government to pick up the hoards of layed off folks. What we’ll have really is working welfare rolls. So it goes.
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another bubba
February 22nd, 2009
3:51 pm
kclubmember, may god bless your bigoted soul and those who think like you.I`m proud to be American even if our current President is a misguided liberal. vote for real change in 2010&2012
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Enough already
February 22nd, 2009
3:52 pm
Ok, people. Enough criticizing of the President of the United States. Whether you voted for him or not, He is OUR President. If you aren’t happy with how he is trying to get America back on track, then…..move to another country and see if that’s any better for ya.
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white male
February 22nd, 2009
3:52 pm
I am very proud that I voted for him.. He is really trying and I think our country is in good hands…
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JWC
February 22nd, 2009
3:54 pm
…also.
If he champions another bailout of GM & Chrysler without demanding union concessions on wages & benefits. I will persinally buy him White Sox season tickets for 2013.
All I have seen from Washington and Detroit so far is that Detroit will go from making poorly built gas guzzlers to poorly built hybrids. Given that it won’t be as easy to lease cars going forward, I am curious who can afford to pay $40,000 for the Chevy Volt.
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Jabo
February 22nd, 2009
3:59 pm
He’s only been on the job a month. So give him a break. That said, it’s been a pretty scary start for a man who had so many believing in his ability to make a difference. Most of his early moves on the economy seem to be counterproductive. And many of his cabinet picks have serious ethical problems. Let’s give President Obama time and pray that his next few months will be better.
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Gayle
February 22nd, 2009
4:02 pm
I rate President Obama: A.
Bush left him with a sorry mess to clean up.
Scrub, rinse, repeat; this is going to take a while.
We desperately need a single payer health insurance system. It is my hope he will work towards that.
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Don
February 22nd, 2009
4:03 pm
OBAMA is a Yes man and even the Arabs got that right about him..If we had said it here we’d be racist,lol this world cracks me up..there have been white slaves black slaves and all colors of men and women that have been slaves but we all tend to just look at the past 100 yrs and cant see beyond that .also Id like say there’s slaves as we speak in Africa that are slaves to other Africans and that’s where the white man got them from so many years ago .FROM OTHER BLACKS IN AFRICA.Oh and it was the Italians and Spanish that did it first less we forget and were 85 % of the slave trade .only 14% here..but we take all the heat and blame for it..i blame Liberals of the bleeding hearts variety for that .you don’t loose racism by keeping it going .Two wrongs don’t make a right those.Black people who wont take account of their own situations will never get over their racist attitude until they become fit enough and responsible enough to forgive their selves and only then will they become part of the solution instead of their own problem..Whites and blacks together should hold all these people in account .we have done that in the white race for ever that’s why we disagree so much its called Constructive criticism freedom of speech and Dialogue .I see some but not a lot of other Blacks doing this now ,like the 60 yr old Black man in here that see’s OBAMA for what he is and it’s no secret he is a under qualified and a socialist..In case no one noticed the black caucus has been doing this and preaching socialism on CSPAN for years now and no one SAID a word.Most of the black people in power want this so they can even the playing field and redistribute the wealth and that’s not a good thing ..what if it were whites doing the same thing ? They would not like that AT ALL,well there’s black rich men and women in this country who finally made it, that are going to have to give their money in taxes to white and black sorry asses that dont or wont work .Wonder how that will play out..and one more thing thanks to Barney Frank,Chris Dod and a lot of the Democrats that would NOT let them regulate the market and the Financial organizations and their loans and spending.the Market and all else went bust..GW is not without fault either but not as much Hell as the media put on him for sure..I wouldn’t blame him if he didn’t care a damn about this country after what you people put him through and you are the same people crying for us who didn’t vote for O to give him a chance ? when we already know what he is ? and now He is proving it everyday ..there will be poverty crime in this country that will pale in comparison to Katrina at the things that are getting ready to happen here in this country and on this Earth .after awhile people wont care about white or black but how to eat and survive..Now take that and chew on it for awhile
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Dre
February 22nd, 2009
4:05 pm
Presdident Obama is doing a great cleaning up the republican and Bush mess…I give President Obama credit for trying to help the middle class and poor….That why we need to vote the republican out the offfice
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TruthHurts
February 22nd, 2009
4:05 pm
President Obama is doing a GREAT job thus far for ANYONE in his position. You idiots always have something negative to say. You should have said all this hogwash when YOUR CONSERVATIVE President and his friends were in office. HOwever, you all chose to sit in a corner and go with it like the idiots you are. Our situation is not blamed on the “liberals” alone, because we ALL know the dumb conservative that just left office had a lot to do with it. He could have done more no matter what EXCUSE you idiots make, don’t make it seem like he did all he could because that fool didn’t. President Obama keep doing a great jobs… its shows he is because there are a LOT of negative people that don’t want to see him do good but he is.
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Tommy Young
February 22nd, 2009
4:06 pm
Obama’s stimulus package… how can we be out of money, we have plenty of ink and paper left?
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Don
February 22nd, 2009
4:09 pm
They ought to tie his ass up and let her whole family ,just the Women tear his Ass up and beat the spirit and ego out of him.break him down in other words
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neil
February 22nd, 2009
4:21 pm
Very disappointing. Said the right things at first, and I had hope. Now shows his true colors and lack of any type of leverageable experience. Seems at best clueless. Needs to quit campaigning, he won already, and start listening and governing.
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Boots
February 22nd, 2009
4:23 pm
The people spoke loud and clear, but you Republicans have your heads up your butt and can hear the voice of the people. We’ve been trickled on for the last time and your comments are totally ill-timed.
Have you forgotten that the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of congress for six out of the last years and did nothing to justify another four years?
Such it up! Man up! You got your butts kicked fair and square.
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Tom Simmons
February 22nd, 2009
4:24 pm
This guiy does not have a clue what he is doing…..first he wastes a trillion dollars to pay back his cronies that got him in office and now he is making me responsible to bail out the do nothing low life dead beats of society that never should have gotten a home in the first place…..all the idiot liberals can do every time Obama fuks up is whine about george bush even though he is no longer president….how can these people be so damn stupid? oh wait they feel for the change you can believe in crap…no brains and look where we are now!!!
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RepubliCrats
February 22nd, 2009
4:26 pm
What’s the difference anymore? You just have to decide what you want your money wasted on. The police power of government is being used to take tax money from unwilling citizens to make giant pay outs to companies and individuals that have made terrible choices. Save yourselves and Vote Libertarian.
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mike
February 22nd, 2009
4:36 pm
for the first 30 days i believe he has done more than the Dictatorship of the Bush administartion has done in eight years and that is to listen to ALL the people and not just a select few groups. He has also shown the world that we are not just mindless barbarians trying to rule the world (Middle east), but we can also listen and discuss our differences. i see when people talk about President Obama they spell out his full name in order to reveal his middle name which is Hussein. that is the problem right there. People have yet to evolve from the rhetoric and name calling they so often hear on talk radio and the news. unfortunately there are still many people who are racist toward other ethnicities and therefore have a closed mind and can not let go over their obsession of hate. I have been in georgia for 3 years and all i hear is of racism, hate, war, and just negativity instead of ideas on how to better our community
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Truth Hurts
February 22nd, 2009
4:39 pm
Lets See what Change you can believe in really is shall we??:
· The Dow at a 10-year low.
· A tax cheat running the IRS
· Another tax cheat as the Chief of Staff
· A trillion-dollar plus federal deficit
Over one-half of voters relieved of any federal tax liability
Government mandated limits on executive compensation
· Three failed attempts and still no Commerce Secretary
· Tom Daschle rides his free limo into the sunset – after paying taxes he evaded.
· The White House performance czar turns out to be a tax cheat also
· Lobbyists hired to work for the Obama Administration
· The census gets politicized
Double government spending in one year
·The word “freedom” fades into obscurity
· Increasing home loan mortgage rates across the board
· Millions of Americans made dependent on government
· Moving unionization-by-intimidation forward
· Welfare checks become “tax cuts.”
· Illegal aliens free to work on taxpayer-funded “stimulus” projects
· Welfare reform reversed, states ordered to increase welfare roles
· Move to silence critical talk radio shows
· Selling Senate seats
· Obama books in religious sections of book stores
· More government workers, not private sector jobs
· A government bureaucracy to intrude on doctor/patient relationships
· Stage set for medical services rationing
· Annual welfare checks for middle income families
· Dow at a 10-year low.
· A tax cheat running the IRS
· Another tax cheat as the Chief of Staff
· A trillion-dollar plus federal deficit
· Over one-half of voters relieved of any federal tax liability
· Government mandated limits on executive compensation
· Three failed attempts and still no Commerce Secretary
· Tom Daschle rides his free limo into the sunset – after paying taxes he evaded.
· The White House performance czar turns out to be a tax cheat also
· Lobbyists hired to work for the Obama Administration
· The census gets politicized
· Double government spending in one year
· The word “freedom” fades into obscurity
· Increasing home loan mortgage rates across the board
· Millions of Americans made dependent on government
· Moving unionization-by-intimidation forward
· Welfare checks become “tax cuts.”
· Illegal aliens free to work on taxpayer-funded “stimulus” projects
· Welfare reform reversed, states ordered to increase welfare roles
· Move to silence critical talk radio shows
· Selling Senate seats
· Obama books in religious sections of book stores
· More government workers, not private sector jobs
· A government bureaucracy to intrude on doctor/patient relationships
· Stage set for medical services rationing
· Annual welfare checks for middle income families
The above facts speaks for it all….This GUY SUCKS AS PRESIDENT!! This proves Liberals are complete brainless dumb asses…they actually think all of the above is good work….What a bunch of LOSERS !!!!!!!!!
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Bruce
February 22nd, 2009
4:40 pm
JC – Has it correct. Repubs need somebody to blame and Obama is it. Truth be told, President Obama has the most thankless job in the country right now. He’s playing the role of Janitor who gets to clean up all the elephant dung after the GOP circus left town.
I’m not a huge Obama supporter, but I’m thankful we have this man who is smart, articulate, and possesses leadership skills far beyone what we’ve come to expect from the previous administration.
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Mark
February 22nd, 2009
4:40 pm
Most blacks voted for Obama for the fact that he’s half black. They’re too uneducated to vote on the issues. This election reminded me of American Idol, with all the judges being black. Funny how the “African Americans” became Americans when it came time to vote. Hypocritical fools….
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CLMW
February 22nd, 2009
4:43 pm
Republican, Dem, Independent, whatever. None of us matter to these people & none of us has any control or say so. I am, for the first time in 42 years, afraid of living here in America but as an American who has never been out of the country I don’t know a place that would be any better. More & more I can’t watch the news, read newspapers or get online. I am scared. For everyone except those greedy, selfish people in Washington. This country is going to fall..either to the radical Muslims or China. I don’t have children & amm glad now I don’t. The world they are inherting is going to make the movie Mad Max look like a day at Disney.
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Uncle Tom
February 22nd, 2009
4:44 pm
Looks like a bunch of amateurs are fumbling their way through government 101 . More than half the class are repeating this grade over again.
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Informed American
February 22nd, 2009
4:44 pm
TruthHurts – you are my favorite type of posting…you think you have it all figured out…but your true ignorance really shows when you try to put down other people. You are hopeless. Keep living in your bubble.
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Mark
February 22nd, 2009
4:45 pm
People, watch the movie “idiocracy”. It will wake you up to what’s really happening to this country.
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GrannyCares
February 22nd, 2009
4:53 pm
I had high hopes for President Obama, but he has certainly not gotten off on the right foot. Too many of his nominations have been crooks, so no longer sure of his own character or values. I had to work hard for my money; I had to sacrifice to own a home; I had to think through what I would have to give up to make a house payment; but with President Obama, even a fool can now own a house even if they have no way of paying for it! I get the distinct impression that he is trying to buy future votes with my meager taxes. What am I supposed to do as a 70 year old? Thank him for causing the stock market to tank 2,000 points since his election with my IRA losing my future?? I shutter to think of what he will do to health care!!!! Folks, as a senior citizen, I am NOT IMPRESSED!
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good laugh
February 22nd, 2009
4:54 pm
I love how all the people who were bashing the former president are the ones saying that we need to rally around the current president and support him because it’s the patriotic thing to do.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
What’s even funnier is that the masses that voted Obama into office will be lead like lambs to the slaughter after he rapes our country with his stimulus disaster.
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KennesawDave
February 22nd, 2009
5:03 pm
You know, I’d like to be fair and hope that whatever poor soul decides to take the job of heading the free world, that whoever he or she may be start off on a high note and have a successful 1st 4 yrs. But I’m sorry, the way this guy is going, I don’t think the country can take 4 more years of him. My points are these:
1 Why are you going to close Guitmo? OK I get that some people have the conception that prisoners get tortured blah blah blah. You know what though, the terrorist that are housed there would be a bigger threat if they were housed over here. And several of our alies have said they will not house them if Guitmo is closed.
2 Stimulus Bill. I don’t really need to say much on this except THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. YOU JUST INSPIRED ME NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN BECAUSE IF I DO THEY AS WELL AS ANY GRANDCHILDREN I MAY HAVE WILL BE PAYING FOR THAT BILL FOR DECADES!!! Yeah I know he didn’t write the bill, but he signed it into law. Without that pen stroke maybe we could’ve worked out something else that made more sense. Doubtful I know but anything’s possible.
3 I just got done reading how the president wants to cut the deficit in 1/2 by reducing funding for the Iraq war and “taxing the wealthiest in the country” OK, I get that there’s a fair amount of people that have wealth envy and think that rich people somehow just had a pile of money dumped in their laps without having to work for it. But I’m sorry Most rich people own companies that provide jobs to the “middle class” and many other jobs that could be had by others needing work. What do you think is going to happen when all these supposed rich people start having the tax bill hiked up on them. They’re going to start making cuts in their companies which means JOB LOSSES GO UP! Which means UNEMPLOYMENT GOES UP! and guess what, THE ECONOMY GETS WORSE! So thank you Mr. President, you done a great job in your first 30 days. You’ve saddled future generations with a huge debt, declared that you’re for all intensive purposes going to weaken national security by closing the facility that houses terrorist that want to kill us, and you’ve decided that wealth redistribution and pulling out of Iraq will pay back 1/2 of the debt this country has now taken on. Yeah, great job sir, thanks a pantload!
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Edward Tracey
February 22nd, 2009
5:05 pm
Obama like Bill Clinton will need a Republican Congress in order to succeed. Just like in a marriage where two people have no financial discipline the couple is doomed to failure and divorce. So the only hope is that an entirely new citizens congress will be elected in 2010. One void of lawyers and PHD’s. Just like George Bush was brought down by a Democratic Congress. As long as evil Harry Reed and the dumbest speaker of the house in American History Nancy Pelosi are in charge, no President will succeed. The media focused for two years on the race for the presidency when in fact the power is in congress.
America will continue to slide into a thirld world country as long as academics continue to fill our bureaucracies and our congress. You would think with all the Sigma Black Belts in business, and PHD’s in government, that the brain trust we all put so much stalk in, would easily solve the world’s problem’s. In fact those who have risen to these levels and are now ashamed of their hard working HS educated blue collar parents and grandparents, are in fact not smart enough to hold to the very values that made us great as a country. Those were the values of God, (attending church and studying of the Bible), hard work, (entrepreneurship), and serving others, (charity helping your neighbor, taking care of ailing parents).
Beware of the accumalation of wealth by the socialist that run our universities. Their goal since the sit ins of the 60’s was to not level the scales of justice as tehy stated, but in fact to tip it to the left. No more free speech is allowed on university campuses where voo doo sciences of evolution, darwinism, global warming, and socialsist economics, are now mainstream; and family values, faith in the Creator, and self reliance are scourned.
The bible says that which we earn that honors God will be blessed and that which we earn without honoring God will disapear like sands in the wind. So when you look at your 401K and it is 59% lower than one year ago you can look to God’s word to find out why
I challange you to read the Bible and our founders from Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Webster and many others and their total faith and reliance on God which was the foundaiton of the blessings to come.
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Winston
February 22nd, 2009
5:10 pm
The most depressing person on the planet. This was the candidate of hope?
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The Truth
February 22nd, 2009
5:17 pm
This clown will be a one-termer thankfully… unfortunately, four years of this moron will bury this country along with all of our civil liberties.
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Jessie
February 22nd, 2009
5:18 pm
Sad situation and will get worse, wake up and realize who voted for him what you actually asked for, now we all got it.
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Jessie
February 22nd, 2009
5:18 pm
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b6542
February 22nd, 2009
5:27 pm
Just ran my retirement calculator software and it just said “KEEP WORKING”. Now only if I can keep my job. Happy days are here again.
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metoo
February 22nd, 2009
5:27 pm
G.B. Shaw
February 22nd, 2009
1:28 pm
A government that robs winners to pay losers can always depend on the support of losers.
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In this case it seems that a vast majority of th