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Kayaker 71
October 11th, 2009
7:42 am
“The Board of the AJC will no longer endorse candidates”. Says a lot for the status of the paper. Does that mean that all of the Cynthia bias will go away and we will get a moderate or middle of the road stance from it’s editors? Nah.
Faith
October 11th, 2009
7:54 am
Join me, brothers and sisters. Together, we can do our part to make the world a better place. What other purpose could we have for being here if not to help protect our homes and our lives and our children’s lives. Join us.
Normal
October 11th, 2009
8:16 am
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT.
Dear Mr. President,
I voted for you on two issues that you made believe you would take care of immediately after you were in office. Neither has happened.
In your speech last night, I heard only more of the same. Promises, but no timeline.
With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, you promised troop removal, but what we have gotten so far is moving troops from one place to the other. Not acceptable. They need to come home, you, I, and everyone else knows that. Please do it.
Now you are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and while I was surprised at your selection, I thought it a good joke on the past Administration…at first. Then I realized that
even to be considering to accept it, you were not the man of honor and morality you have claimed to be. You are just another political suit, as far as I can see now.
The amazing thing is though, is that you have the power to rectify that. Today, this very minute, if you wished, could tell your people to stop DADT and give all American people, including the Gay Community, equal rights in all things. That is what America stands for, isn’t it.
You can also, today or this very minute, tell your Military to bring our troops home. To rest, heal, and prepare to fight another day when things haven’t been made so hopeless by ineptitude.
But mostly, today, this very minute, you must not accept the Nobel Peace Prize and allow the President of the United States of America to become a pawn in world politics and political slap down. It is humiliating to Americans everywhere that you would even consider it.
Mr. President, do the right thing, the moral thing. Prove to your people that you walk the walk on the high moral ground. Please, do not accept the award. You will be a laughing stock and lose all of the credibility you have gained.
Bring our troops home. You know that they have been used up and wasted for no gain.
Stop DADT and give every American their equal rights in all things.
That Sir, will go a long way in proving you have what it takes to do the right thing and not care a whit about political gain or loss.
Thank you,
@@
October 11th, 2009
8:27 am
I think I know who nominated Obama for the NPP.
Vladimir Putin/Dmitri Medvedev?
Schnort…
Lover of Life
October 11th, 2009
8:29 am
We must stop spending our tax dollars to kill others. Disband the military and return those wasted tax dollars to the people of the United States of America. Let we the people choose how to spend our money.
Jack
October 11th, 2009
8:33 am
I may be wrong, but it appears that most folks that voted for Obama seem to have regrets and are having trouble admitting it: especially journalists.
Road Scholar
October 11th, 2009
8:36 am
It’s great to bee a fuzzy bee! 49-44 Oh He!! yes! THWG!
Kamchak
October 11th, 2009
8:37 am
I may be wrong, but it appears that most folks that voted for Bush seem to have regrets and are having trouble admitting it: especially journalists.
fyt
Cherokee
October 11th, 2009
8:41 am
Nope, Jack, I have no regrets. The alternative – Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency – would have been disastrous.
But that doesn’t mean that I don’t wish, like Normal, that he would move faster on things like ending the war and DADT.
tat
October 11th, 2009
8:43 am
the selection of barak obama by the nobel committee was white elitism in the worst possible light. they was condescending pure and simple.
Bud Wiser
October 11th, 2009
8:49 am
Only those with a semi-functional brain realize that, Jack. The Obowo cracker chasers, the 94%ers, Hollywood elitists and a wide selection of morons (Dimwittocrats pride themselves on such diversity) still love him; and don’t forget the entitlement crowd, all those who want something for nothing, socialists and other mentally deficient maniacs still support the Liar in Chief.
Journalists, and I use the term loosely – particularly the AJC types – , have no scruples, apparently no morals, ethics, or backbone. They rarely acknowledge wrongdoing, usually buried in a retraction on page c-27, in very small print. Most have no backbone, and are incapable of standing erect, as well as having lost any ability they once may have had for reporting the truth, investigating BOTH sides of an issue and reporting to let the reader decide. They now feel it their duty to slant news, or not cover it at all, to lead one toward a particular political agenda.
In other words, “journalism” is now being run primarily by political hacks with no self initiative or respect, skills, reporting ability or drive, and it is showing in the financial reports of the big newspapers that are dying a slow, self inflicted death. What is really funny is that they are doing it to themselves, but they don’t know why they are dying.
You gotta love “journalists” today, they suck. I always thought when I come back in another life I wanted to be a TV weatherman: you never have to be right, but you still get paid. Throw today’s version of journalist into that group, they wouldn’t be able to find or discuss a legitimate news topic, especially in their own newspapers.
Political Preacher
October 11th, 2009
8:50 am
Jack is just plain wrong. Of the two candidates that had any chance of winning, Obama was the obvious better choice then and still is the better choice. Obviously, very few people will be completely satisfied with all decisions regardless of the winner though. To expect otherwise is naive, at best.
Bud's Math Teacher
October 11th, 2009
8:53 am
I prefer anonymity.
JohnD
October 11th, 2009
9:05 am
First Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize and then the US Navy names a ship after that rabble-rousing, community-organizer, Medgar Evers.
So that’s two african-american community-organizers honored in the same week. No wonder the conservatives have gone all apoplectic.
jt
October 11th, 2009
9:06 am
Billions of Asians have realized (albiet a little late) how a strong central authority is inherently corrupt. These Asians are sitting down to OUR lunch table as Americans only whine for more nanny-state involvement. The birth-control pill has something to do with it.
If Mr. Moore and his gallery of weeping victims took a closer look, they’d see their problem is not capitalism but politics. Once elected, virtually all politicians in the U.S. or Western Europe join the Not Much of Anything Party, and that includes Barack Obama, or soon will.
In the U.S., both Republican and Democratic pols define capitalism as a system with economic activity sufficient to produce campaign contributions. But that ensures income stagnation for Mr. Moore’s masses.
The most immediate problem facing the U.S. is not that we have too much capitalism, but that we don’t have enough of it.
In a recent visit to the Journal’s offices, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key suggested Americans and Europeans don’t quite comprehend the enormous “wealth” rising in Asia. Add to that Brazil. This isn’t just fat cats but the wealth of billions rising on commerce—on crude, potent capitalism.
The Olympic Committee’s rejection of Chicago played here as yet another Obama story. The real, less entertaining message is that from where the well-traveled committee members sit, Chicago is a has-been. Rio is the future.
The important difference between the “socialist” Barack Obama and the Republicans is he’d settle for 2% annual growth (gotta pay for the green dreams) and they might get 3%. In a world of China, India and Brazil, growing at rates between 5% and 9%, we need more. A future president who puts the U.S. back in the race with these fast runners could call himself a communist for all I care.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574458943044664778.html
jt
October 11th, 2009
9:08 am
once again-
The most immediate problem facing the U.S. is not that we have too much capitalism, but that we don’t have enough of it.
jt
October 11th, 2009
9:09 am
It is far much easier to whine.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:31 am
The 2009 Nobel Prizes for Conservatives
In much the same way that the sun sets in the west, each fall brings the predictable spectacle of apoplectic conservatives foaming at the mouth over the Nobel prizes. Following the awards to Al Gore and Paul Krugman over the past two years, the surprising announcement that President Obama captured the Nobel Peace Prize unsurprisingly produced popping veins and burst blood vessels across right-wingistan.
Sadly for Republicans and their amen corner, the Nobels are humanitarian awards which generally recognize contributions to, well, humanity. Given that almost insurmountable barrier for right-wing aspirants, a little affirmative action is in order.
Here, then, are the 2009 Nobel Prizes for Conservatives:
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001641.htm
jt
October 11th, 2009
9:32 am
Fireside chats anyday now.
It’s beginning to look more and more like the Roosevelt years. By the end of this year, all the jobs created during the bubble era – 2002-2007 – will have been eliminated, making it the first decade with no job growth since the ’30s. We’re expecting a fireside chat any day.
Typically big businesses cut workers in a recession. Then, when the economy recovers, small businesses are quick to take them back. But this is unlike the typical post-war recession. This time, deprived of capital as well as customers, small businesses don’t have a chance. Neither does a genuine recovery.
The authorities still do not understand what is going on. They are used to fooling most of the people most of the time. They think they can dupe them again – with bailouts and boondoggles. But real demand has vanished as households try to pay down their debt. That is not going to change anytime soon. Not while the federal government is sabotaging a genuine recovery. It’s savings – capital – the US economy needs. A capitalist economy in which the capitalist have no capital won’t work. Why is there no capital? Because the feds take it.
Supplying cash-for-this and cash-for-that is an expensive proposition, especially when tax receipts are falling. The money has to come from somewhere. As it turns out, the feds borrow it from the very people who are trying to rebuild their personal balance sheets. Of the $1.6 trillion the US government will borrow this year, the biggest single lender is the private sector, chipping in $700 billion. But instead of being put to use in a way that might stimulate a real recovery – providing credit for small business and consumers – it is taken up by the US government and then frittered away.
The banks are happy to play the government’s game too. They can borrow overnight money from the Fed at only one quarter of 1%, annualized. But lending to small business is hard work. And it is risky. Why bother? The US Treasury will pay them 4 % for lending back to the government, long term. This is practically free money to the banks. Both the bankers and politicians end up ahead – with a bigger piece of the economy under their control.
http://dailyreckoning.com/chronic-depression/
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
9:38 am
normal–thanks. It’s the thought that counts.
@@–your cartoon from last p.m. still has me rolling on the floor!
As for President Ima Gonna’s speech last p.m. as one of my trailer pak, white trash, hillbilly, redneck, cracker correspondents e-mailed me last p.m. “Hey, Bubba, if it’s first-person pronoun, then get off the stage and do it” in reference to Unwavering’s claim, “I will end don’t ask don’t tell.”
Where’s the timeline and the laid out plan? Without that this speech was just so much more Nobel Prize winning campaign rhetoric.
For those counseling patience: it doesn’t matter with me if he says the minute I step off the podium or when h*ll freezes over. Just tell me how long, oh L-rd.
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
9:44 am
Mrs G,
I know it makes a good story to claim there was vein popping outrage on the right over the Nobel selection, but in reality there was far more of a “we told you this award was crap” satisfaction since the committee vindicated everything we had ever said about the prize.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:44 am
Any body seen Dick?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/10/cheney-and-co-all-quiet-counterterrorism-front
Normal
October 11th, 2009
9:47 am
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:44 am
Any body seen Dick?
He lost his deferment and is training in Pakistan
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:48 am
Morning, RW.
I appreciate your opinion, but I think you are wrong.
Have a great day!
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
9:48 am
Ah, yes! Nobel Laureates.
My roots are in the southern reaches of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. He used to come and hang out on the ginyards listening to the local tales which he incorporated in his writing. When my grandmother found out that Granddaddy was letting me sit with the master, she ordered, “Mr. Gene, you keep that boy away from that lying old drunk.” Granddaddy says, “Miz Georgia, he won the Nobel Prize.” “So? He’s a Nobel Prize winning old drunk.” She disliked his presentation of his grandfather under whom her father had served in the Wah-uh.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:50 am
a little cartoon….
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/20091010_jumping_the_gun/
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
9:51 am
Mrs G,
It wasn’t an opinion, it was fact.
And a great day to you as well!
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:55 am
RW
I appreciate your opinion of what is fact.
I still think you are wrong.
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:00 am
Mrs. G–
Good cartoon!
BTW–how many body bags have come home under Ima Gonna’s watch? How many more are projected? Where’s the timeline to stop it?
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
10:03 am
I have no idea why this story popped into my RSS feed and I present it with no comment. Frankly the headline is all you really need and it certainly fits the “free swim” category.
One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:05 am
Normal
October 11th, 2009
8:16 am
He never promised troop removal in Afghanistan; just the opposite. Everyone is an awful lot of people. I thought he gave a good reason for accepting the award. DADT will be resolved, eventually. But by all means forward your letter to:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
…or mail it, if you haven’t already.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:08 am
Mrs. Godzilla
October 11th, 2009
9:44 am
Great link, thanks. And where is Bush?
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:10 am
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
9:38 am
In you lifetime.
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:11 am
your…little quick on the submit icon.
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:11 am
RW @ 10:03
Wonder if they’ll be one of the ones Ima and Michelle have over to the White House? Should we invite them to our trailer park bash?
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
October 11th, 2009
10:11 am
Scraping the bottom of the barrel-
The president, instead, noted that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Bill Frist, all Republicans, and former Health and Human Service Secretaries Louis Sullivan and Tommy Thompson, who both served in Republican administrations, have all come out in favor of overhauling health care, even though they differ on some specifics. -Urinal
If this thing is so wonderful, why do you libs need human shields to hind behind, mmm, mmmm, mmmm?
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:14 am
TnGelding–
In my lifetime? Not so sure about that, I’m already on up in years and have a heart condition! We’ll see. I need to go and check with my daughter in law and see what the Gypsy fortune tellers have to say…I’ll take their word over Ima’s…
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:16 am
Jack
October 11th, 2009
8:33 am
You are, but I would have preferred Hillary. It’s too early to give up on him tho. He still has great potential.
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
10:16 am
josef,
By all means we should invite them, they sound like a hoot, but let’s supply our own curry.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No kidding. But I doubt Obama’s silly little cult will see it this way. They also think Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and for the same reason, because he is ‘The One.’ I am sure the next verse in the Schoolchildren’s hymn to Obama is being written as we speak. They should give him an Oscar, too, for that matter. Because he has made just as many contributions to film as he has to World Peace.
As a bonus, let’s consider who the Nobel Committee considered less worthy than Barack Hussein Obama to receive to Nobel Peace Prize:
# Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia – imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
# Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system. — not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. (Not to mention the symbolic value of awarding a Chinese dissident on the 20th Anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.)
# Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years – not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
# Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims, also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
# Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar. She currently leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and serves as the U.N. special envoy to Darfur and is apparently also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:19 am
RW–
Thanks for the list. Really, we should think about it.
getalife
October 11th, 2009
10:21 am
Obama To Gay Rights Activists: ‘I Will End Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
You can stop playing the gay card josef
Great game yesterday but the Florida defense won that game
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:22 am
Question how much of the Nobel money will go to the Matthew Shepherd Foundation?
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:23 am
@@
October 11th, 2009
8:27 am
“Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by the five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Like the Parliament, the panel has a leftist slant, with three members elected by left-of-center parties and two right-of-center members. Jagland said the decision to honor Obama was unanimous.”
“The secretive committee declined to say who nominated Obama. In Nobel tradition, nominations are kept secret for 50 years, unless those making the submissions go public about their picks. This year’s nominations included Colombian activist Piedad Cordoba, Afghan woman’s rights activist Simi Samar and Denis Mukwege, a physician in war-torn Congo who opened a clinic to help rape victims.”
“Nominators for the prize are broad and include former laureates; current and former members of the committee and their staff; members of national governments and legislatures; university professors of law, theology, social sciences, history and philosophy; leaders of peace research and foreign affairs institutes; and members of international courts of law.”
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-obama-nobel,0,7396462.story?track=rss
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:24 am
getalife–
heh, heh…and when? Oh, don’t ask… the operative word being the auxiliary verb “will…” implying the future indefinite….
Kamchak
October 11th, 2009
10:26 am
If the community organizers did military contracting…
Carter is a Fool
October 11th, 2009
10:27 am
Dear Ms. G,
Respectfully you are wrong. Here is a good cartoon that sums up this trinket given to Mr. President.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/PhotoPopup.aspx?id=506213
It says it all.
RW, thanks for the list. Each person on this list is more deserving, but does not have the political impact of giving this “award” to a much more deserving recipient.
Normal
October 11th, 2009
10:27 am
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
10:05 am
I sent it to the White House and the Democratic Party Headquarters.
And I know he had called Afghanistan the “Good War”, but I figured that when he saw it for what it was and the reason (OBL) was long gone, he would use common sense. I keep forgetting lifer politicians don’t have much of that…my bay.
But if the Republicans put up anybody who even looks like a moderate next election(s). I’ll be hard pressed not to bite. As a concerned Independent it looks like to me, at least, the Democratic party is screwing the pooch…just sayin’
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:32 am
K’chak @ 10:26
Normal
October 11th, 2009
10:33 am
RW, you are right. This Peace” Prize was just a jab at President Bush’s administration. I truly thought it was funny at first…until I started thinking about it. Then I couldn’t believe that President Obama is actually going to accept it. It knocks him down a couple of pegs in my eyes, and after the hope I put in his “Hope and Change”, well, let’s just say it disappoints me…greatly.
TW
October 11th, 2009
10:35 am
‘ if the Republicans put up anybody who even looks like a moderate next election’
Be nice for the American people to have a choice next time. But there is no place for a ‘moderate’ inside the GOP tent of hate and insecurity. Because they know not the definition of the word ‘lib’ they sling so freely, they are unaware that it now encompasses ‘moderate.’
Because the right now resides in Rush’s bottom, any hint of fresh air will be shunned.
Normal
October 11th, 2009
10:36 am
Kamchak
October 11th, 2009
10:26 am
Carter is a Fool
October 11th, 2009
10:27 am
Both great cartoons, thanks! I needed a good laugh
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
10:39 am
Normal,
I agree. President Obama really missed a chance to gain enormous respect by turning down the award, but in the end I believe his ego wouldn’t let him.
Obozo
October 11th, 2009
10:39 am
My plan is endorsed by every RINO in the land.
Except those facing an election this year or the next, the racists.
And how about me, am I not wonderful, mmm, mmmm, mmmm?
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
10:40 am
getalife–Unmentionable says to tell you that the gay card is the queen of clubs, not the queen of hearts.
RW–meant to ask, reckon USinUk knows these folks?
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
10:45 am
Unmentionable says to tell you that the gay card is the queen of clubs, not the queen of hearts.
I’m not so sure about that. Ever taken a good look at the jack of hearts?
josef,
She probably fits into the story somewhere. Maybe she was harboring the three legged cat to stir up trouble.
Carter is a Fool
October 11th, 2009
10:47 am
Normal,
Thanks. Kamchak’s was great.
I also wish for someone to run who can find the best of both parties. On the left, stop the orgy of spending and the giveaways to those who just have a handout. On the right, stop the pushing of religion on all of us. Stop the orgy of spending which is almost as bad on the left. Stop the the obsession over abortion and gays.
It would be amazing to find a person who could find the best of both sides and compromise. This era of polarized politics is just unproductive and it is ripping our country apart.
getalife
October 11th, 2009
10:59 am
Please, the prize was the world’s way of saying enough with the occupations.
The cons will never win any awards so they lash out like children.
Grow up cons.
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
11:01 am
“This era of polarized politics is just unproductive and it is ripping our country apart”
and it’s all happened before…and yet, here we still are. If you think politics is polarized now you need a good long study of PAST polarized politics in this country. Makes today look like a rest stop. Start with the elections of Andrew Jackson.
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
11:01 am
RW–
“…standing in the doorway, looking like the Jack of Hearts…”
Need to ask her tomorrow what she knows about a missing three-legged cat!
The Democrats crowing over victory need to be reminded that that victory was obtained by swaying enough of the independents/moderates to their side. This is a fickle lot and they’re just as likely to go to the GOP and there are plenty of the out of power now who can appeal to the deciding factor voter. 2012 is a long way off still and, well, who besides the Nobel Committee was paying attention to Ima Gonna in 2005. Even the Gypsy Lady says the crystal ball is too cloudy to read…
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
11:03 am
Doggone– @ 11:01
Amen to that!
Kayaker 71
October 11th, 2009
11:04 am
Bozo is still on the campaign trail and will never get off of it. He can’t help himself, being the true narcissist that he is. The speech given to the gay rights group sounded like a campaign speech, the speech given to the IOC in Denmark was not about Chicago…. it was about him. He is constantly pandering to himself. No wonder he can’t get anything done…. he’s too busy making sure that people still like him. I can only imagine how he feels inside after being awarded the Nobel…. he has doubts about the validity of the award, but turn it down?….. not in your wildest dreams.
TW
October 11th, 2009
11:10 am
get – agree, grow up.
Besides, since when do the cons give a hoot about peace, much less a peace prize?
The award was for the American people pulling their head out last November. They just put Obama’s name on it.
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
11:10 am
“Praise him with loud symbols: Praise him with high sounding symbols.” –Psalm 150, Ima Gonna Translation
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
11:11 am
“is still on the campaign trail and will never get off of it. He can’t help himself, being the true narcissist that he is”
Baloney. That’s true of ALL Presidents. In fact, it’s true of all politicians. They’re always campaigning, even when they’re “retired”
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
11:12 am
TW
“The award was for the American people pulling their head out last November. They just put Obama’s name on it.”
I agree. So why not put their name on it?
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
11:13 am
Doggone– @ 11:11
Exactly. It’s why I have no faith in ANY of them…
AmVet
October 11th, 2009
11:17 am
OK, my critique of Friday night’s musical offering is not gonna be kind.
i.e., by and large, what a lame bunch of sonic refuse.
Carly Simon, REM and Cornball Flats?
Jeezoo people!
But there were a few gems – Frankie Beverly, Nick Drake, War, Barry Richmond (who was a mainstay at Fuzzies) and of course, the masterful selections by Bruno, a man amongst musical boys and girls here.
For the crybabies here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgCeCfWgXo
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgTqdS3ChyE
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
11:19 am
“The award was for the American people pulling their head out last November. They just put Obama’s name on it”
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Kayaker 71
October 11th, 2009
11:21 am
Doggone,
Not like this guy. He is so full of himself that he can’t get anything done. Lot’s of promises….. little concrete accomplishment.
TW
October 11th, 2009
11:21 am
joe – they did by giving it to the man we elected to *represent* us.
El Jefe
October 11th, 2009
11:22 am
Don’t ask, Don’t tell – a great democrat invention. Let us all sing the praises of Bill Clinton.
This is at best a straw issue. A nothing. Blend into the crowd and you can do anything you want in private, just like the rest of us.
There is a time and place for everything. Stop being so selfish about it. No one wants to know what you think of cute person in the fifth bunk. All this country asks is that you do your job, server your country and come back safe.
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
11:23 am
“Exactly. It’s why I have no faith in ANY of them…”
Me either.
getalife
October 11th, 2009
11:24 am
I think Josef should stop hogging the computer and allow the unmentionable to blog.
TW,
Cut me a slice of more gop power for another depression and more war.
That’s the ticket.
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
11:25 am
“Not like this guy. He is so full of himself that he can’t get anything done. Lot’s of promises….. little concrete accomplishment”
We gave Bush 8 years to screw things up. We can give Obama 8 years to get it back on track. Heck, if he was a pregnant women his baby would only just be due in 9 days.
joe matarotz
October 11th, 2009
11:30 am
In an effort to provide consistency to the readers, I suggest that all anti-Obama posters cease and desist from the use of various nicknames, such as Obamalamadingdong. Going forward, please refer to our President with the proper modicum of respect and use his rightful name: Jimmy Carter II. Thank you.
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
11:33 am
Kayaker 71
October 11th, 2009
11:04 am
He gave a good reason for not turning it down. Let’s see if he can deliver. Ending the recession in 6 months isn’t an accomplishment? Granted, we still have a long way to go to climb out of the hole…
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
October 11th, 2009
11:34 am
Der Falcons are not going to enjoy their visit to Candlestick (or whatever they call it nowadays,) at all, and the Broncos are fixing to find out what good Orton is in big games, enough of this new neck beard nation hero worship.
All gonna come crashing back to Earth.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
October 11th, 2009
11:37 am
al-Gitmo: I’ll have to admit, I thought that you would have abandoned the democrats by now, the way you abandoned Bruno last year, but here you are, hanging where no sane man would dare to tread.
Right at home, aren’t you?
TW
October 11th, 2009
11:37 am
Falcons beat SF today.
However, Whiner, your sudden affinity for the town of SF is reassuring. Get a lot out of the talk last night, did ya’?
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
11:38 am
joe matarotz
October 11th, 2009
11:30 am
And exactly what did Jimmy do that was so reprehensible? His fiscal policy was superb. Monetary policy is the Fed’s work.
RW-(the original)
October 11th, 2009
11:39 am
Andy,
Nobody ever enjoys a trip to Candlestick. Global warming there means it reaches a wind chill of 30 in July.
TW
October 11th, 2009
11:40 am
And what was that Carter said about energy?
Again, cons no nothing of peace or its stewards.
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
11:41 am
October 10th, 2009 6:01 PM
“Get Off Obama’s Back …second thoughts from Michael Moore”
“I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack’s big day. Did I — and others on the left — do the same?”
http://michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/get-obamas-back-second-thoughts-michael-moore
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
11:42 am
TW
October 11th, 2009
11:40 am
And then along came the Gypper!
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
11:44 am
October 8th, 2009 11:45 AM
Voices of Power: Elizabeth Warren
By Lois Romano / Washington Post
LOIS ROMANO: Welcome, Elizabeth Warren, Chairman of the Congressional Oversight Committee that is tasked with scrutinizing how the Treasury Department has spent $700 billion to shore up our failing financial institutions. Thanks for joining us today.
http://michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/voices-power-elizabeth-warren
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
11:49 am
NFL: National Flatulence League. Who cares? The owners, players, advertisers and networks are laughing all the way to the bank. Get out of the house and do something! Unless of course, you’ve got a small wager on it. So I guess I should have included the bookies, oddsmakers and casinos.
Kamchak
October 11th, 2009
11:52 am
Not like this guy
Really? You wanna go there?
Let’s see what former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has to say–
McClellan includes the charges in a 341-page book “What Happened Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” that delivers a harsh look at the White House and the man he served for close to a decade. He describes Bush as demonstrating a “lack of inquisitiveness,” says the White house operated in “permanent campaign “mode…
[...]
“Over that summer of 2002″ he writes, “top Bush aides had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to sell the war….In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president’s advantage.”
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 11th, 2009
11:53 am
From Rich:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11rich.html?pagewanted=print
“To appreciate this crowd’s spotless record of failure, consider its noisiest standard-bearer, John McCain. He made every wrong judgment call that could be made after 9/11. It’s not just that he echoed the Bush administration’s constant innuendos that Iraq collaborated with Al Qaeda’s attack on America. Or that he hyped the faulty W.M.D. evidence to the hysterical extreme of fingering Iraq for the anthrax attacks in Washington. Or that he promised we would win the Iraq war “easily.” Or that he predicted that the Sunnis and the Shiites would “probably get along” in post-Saddam Iraq because there was “not a history of clashes” between them.
What’s more mortifying still is that McCain was just as wrong about Afghanistan and Pakistan. He routinely minimized or dismissed the growing threats in both countries over the past six years, lest they draw American resources away from his pet crusade in Iraq.
Two years after 9/11 he was claiming that we could “in the long term” somehow “muddle through” in Afghanistan. (He now has the chutzpah to accuse President Obama of wanting to “muddle through” there.) Even after the insurgency accelerated in Afghanistan in 2005, McCain was still bragging about the “remarkable success” of that prematurely abandoned war. In 2007, some 15 months after the Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf signed a phony “truce” ceding territory on the Afghanistan border to terrorists, McCain gave Musharraf a thumb’s up. As a presidential candidate in the summer of 2008, McCain cared so little about Afghanistan it didn’t even merit a mention among the national security planks on his campaign Web site.”
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 11th, 2009
11:56 am
Where were the extremists like Whiner for 8 years when Afghanistan and Pakistan were neglected and we installed a dictator in Pakistan that left it with AQ massed in Pakistan where the nukes are?
And the Apaches didn’t have any of the weapons and capabilities that the resistance in Afghanistan (and Pakistan) nnow have in response to the person who said study how the Apaches were defeated.
Let’s get a Draft going right now to include the age group that the chickenhawk Saxby Chambliss’ son is in.
Let’s get your babuhs out of that UGA dorm and into Afghanistan if you want more troops there. Put your money where your mouth is.
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
11:56 am
“And exactly what did Jimmy do that was so reprehensible?”
He tried to be a good man and a good President. And he told the American people the truth…to the extent that he could. Both are unforgiveable by those who prefer their politicians to be Messiahs with magic wands to make everything right. And even if they can’t, it’s better to lie about it and make their believers FEEL they are right, even when they are wrong.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 11th, 2009
11:57 am
The headline in Cox AJC is Georgia Tech students robbed at gunpoint again. Maybe Obama should send 60,000 troops to North Avenue.
TW
October 11th, 2009
11:58 am
OMG! Is it really being suggested that, dear I say, that McCain actually demonstrated a large degree of…
NAH-EEV-UH-TAY???????????????????
Yeah…maybe so. But he did get all those Vietnamese to accept Christ.
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
12:00 pm
getalife–
“I think Josef should stop hogging the computer and allow the unmentionable to blog.”
Says to tell you: “no way. Keeps me from having to listen to his p*ssing and moaning.”
El Jefe–oh, but there are plenty of us who DO blend into the crowd. That’s why you don’t see us coming, you know, a sort of fifth column..all you, and so many others, see and hear are our shock troops. There’s 30 million of us. Sitting right next to you, listening and taking it all in. You know, all those comments about “that babe” or your latest exploits between the sheets. Try this, go through one day, just one, in which you stop and think about it every time before you mention your partner or when somebody asks the most innocent question about “what are you going to do this weekend?” And you can’t say, “the old battle-axe mother-in-law’s coming over to inspect…”
Taking the comment to getalife on hawging the computer, the Unmentionable blends. He’s a fifth columnist. I’m more the shock trooper. What I have to say is mild compared to what he has to say.
TW
October 11th, 2009
12:01 pm
‘Let’s get a Draft going right now to include the age group that the chickenhawk Saxby Chambliss’ son is in’
I think bad knee is genetic. Goes away in the late twenties to allow for extensive golf play and liquor consumption.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 11th, 2009
12:05 pm
Ah don’t unnerstans why the Nobel wasn’t given to Bush-Cheney and them Neocons who forgot where Afganistan was for 8 years and have nothing but total pure sh_t to show for 3 trillion and 5000 dead in Iraq.
Gov Option Done Deal!
October 11th, 2009
12:07 pm
I wonder when Josef will discover that Congress is the one that is putting off ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Congress could pass a federal gay marriage act?
Someone introduce Josef to the concept of CONGRESS. There must be a place where they are defined on the interweb. Keep Bingin’ and Googlin’ Josef. You’ll get there. CONGRESS makes that law not Obama.
TnGelding
October 11th, 2009
12:09 pm
In case you didn’t take the time to read the interview linked to above:
“In the 1950s and the 1960s, coming out of World War II, we said as a government, as a people, what can we do to support the middle class. You know that’s what FHA was to help people get into homes, right? VA, GI loans on education, we looked at policies, like whether or not they strengthen and support the middle class.”
“Somewhere, that began to change in the late 1970s, early 1980s, and the middle class instead became like a resource to be pulled from, and you know, they became the turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner. Who could who could carve off a piece? Who can get this little piece? Who could make a profit from this piece and that piece or squeeze down on the wages? And the middle class has gotten shakier and shakier, hollowed out.”
“The consequences of that are far more than economic. The middle class is what makes us who we are. It’s affects the poor. A strong and vital middle class is a middle class that can offer a helping hand to the poor. A strong and vital middle class is a middle class that has room, is creating new jobs to — basically to suck the poor up out of poverty and into middleclass positions. The middle class is what gives us political stability. It’s what gives us an America that’s all bought into the whole process that what we do is not just about a handful of folks at the top who profit from it. We all profit from it, and that’s why we work, and that’s why we vote, and that’s why we accept that the outcome of elections. And that’s why we’re safe to walk our streets, because we have a middle class for which this ultimately works, this country.”
“And every time we hollow that out, every time we take away a little piece of that, we run the risk that some of what we understood at America, some of what we know as America begins to die. That’s what scares me.”
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
12:09 pm
Doggone– on Jimmy Carter…not being originally from Georgia, he came as much of a surprise to me as he did anyone else. Being from the Deep South, though, I had serious enough reservations about him to not vote for him in 1976. I was wrong. I DID vote for him the next go ’round, the last time I voted for one of the mainstream parties. Why? His “Say Something Good About America” address to his people. He’s gone off the deep end of late, in my opinion, but, all in all, he got my respect.
josef nix
October 11th, 2009
12:14 pm
G-DD–as commander in chief of the Armed Forces he has it within his power to block any involuntary discharge as a matter of national security. He hasn’t. FYI the Pentagon has expressed its concern in this matter in reference to the number of interpreter/translators dismissed under DADT
I am aware of the matters concerning “gay marriage” and if you will recall, I do NOT bring Ima to task on that issue beyond his stance on Prop 8. This is a state, not federal, issue. .
DoggoneGA
October 11th, 2009
12:16 pm
“He’s gone off the deep end of late, in my opinion, but, all in all, he got my respect”
I’ve always respected him, but I don’t agree that HE has gone off the deep end. I blame the press…for doing what they have been doing for FAR, FAR too long: cherry picking “sound bites” and not giving the entire context of the quotes they use.
Anyone could go through, for instance, this blog and make anyone here say just about anything contrary to their actual posts…simply by cherry picking words and phrases. And that press is too addicted to that kind of “reporting”