Obama almost 2-1 favorite to win re-election
Will President Obama win re-election in 2012?
Karl Rove concedes that his chances are pretty good. “I consider him a favorite, albeit a slight favorite,” Rove told Politico. “Republicans underestimate President Obama at their own peril.”
Mike Huckabee, a potential challenger, isn’t among those making that mistake.
“The people that are sitting around saying, ‘He’s definitely going to be a one-term president. It’s going to be easy to take him out,’ they’re obviously political illiterates – political idiots, let me be blunt,” he said.
That may explain why Huckabee and others haven’t been eager to jump into the race. I suspect they’re waiting to see how the coming budget confrontation plays out between Obama and Washington Republicans before making their final “go/no go” decision
At Intrade, “investors” can “invest” in markets trying to determine the chances that Arctic ice in 2011 will be greater than that in 2007 (43 percent), whether physicists will observe the elusive Higgs Boson particle by 2012 (12 percent) or whether the U.S. will adopt a VAT or sales tax this year (25 percent). The people willing to put their money on the line have made Obama almost a two-to-one favorite to win re-election.
(BTW, Sarah Palin is given a 7.4 percent chance of winning the GOP nomination, down from a peak of 28 percent; Herman Cain has a paltry 0.3 percent chance. But as the famous political prognosticator Lloyd Christmas would point out, Cain does have a chance.)
-- Jay Bookman
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Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
February 28th, 2011
8:30 am
Prepare for the onslaught!!!!!!
Maybe you should keep a separate count for how many times Obowo, Idiot Messiah, and Obumbler are posted on this thread. I’m willing to go 5-1 odds that Obama’s name is wrong more than it’s right on this thread.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
8:31 am
Intrade is mostly just for fun this far out, but why not.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
8:32 am
SoCo, I’ve got $500 says you’re wrong.
In the meantime:
Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama
Haywood Jablome
February 28th, 2011
8:34 am
But I was so enjoying the apoplectic absolutes that he is a one-termer.
Right. He’s a on-termer. And global warming is a conspiracy designed by the world’s scientists, Al Gore and environmentalists.
Bill Orvis White
February 28th, 2011
8:37 am
While I love Mr. Rove, I know that he’ll have egg on his face in November 2012. This “president” is by far the most incompetent “leader” in the history of the nation. The majority of the American electorate is learing this fact very fast. With the economy in the tank and continuing to slide, there is no doubt that WE THE PEOPLE will fire the “president.”
The greatest president ever: Lincoln. The greatest president in recent times: Ronald Wilson Reagan. The greatest president who made the best changes: Richard Milhous Nixon. The worst: Barack Hussein Obama. Close to the worst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Closer to the worst: President Wilson. Who could replace Barack Hussein Obama? The Honorable Herman Cain. If Herman cannot do it, then who’s next? I would pick the Honorable Speaker Gingrich. If Speaker Gingrich cannot do it, then I would pick the Honorable Governor Mitch Romney. I also heard great things about the Honorable Governor Daniels so he could be a big surprise. But, for now, Herman is the best candidate to take on Lil Hussein.
Amen,
Bill
md
February 28th, 2011
8:41 am
Of all the turmoil around the globe and within the US this is what we get?? Hypothethicals about an election in the distant future……….
Have fun ……….
carlosgvv
February 28th, 2011
8:41 am
I think Obama will be a one-term president because he appears to want to please everyone and winds up pleasing no one. However, the potential Republican candidates, so far, look even worse than him. So, our choices will probably be bad and worse.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
8:45 am
Yes we can.
Again.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
8:45 am
By some strange coincidence, I’d happened upon a hotair.com (!) link where commenters were arguing over intrade.com information that Nate Silver had repackaged. In that case, the topic was 2012 Republican Presidential candidates.
The little online fist-fights breaking out among the righties posting there were fairly mesmerizing and occasionally hilarious.
Here’s where you can join them in progress (so to speak—the link’s a few weeks old now)
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/05/the-galaxy-of-2012-gop-stars/comment-page-2/#comments
@@
February 28th, 2011
8:46 am
Huckabee said …they’re obviously political illiterates – political idiots… THAT!!??!!
I’ll agree with Rove. Huckabee’s never been a favorite of mine. An Obama win won’t be a problem as long as there are checks and balances. A GOP majority in the house will do just fine.
I watched a bit of Huckabee last night. He had a black minister and a Latino fella. Seems they’re a bit put out with Obama’s recent “stand” (if you can call it that) on DOMA. 82% of blacks want marriage defined in traditional terms (one man/one woman). Latinos favor it by 65%. Whites? 55%.
I was a bit surprised.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
8:46 am
Re, Mr. Cain, if I recall correctly, that Godawful Pizza wasn’t even edible.
SoCo, I’ll take even odds on the prez being labeled socialist before this thread is though.
And great sarcasm, Bill. (I’m surprised Hoover, Harding and Flub-a-Dubya weren’t at the top of your list!)
And as carlos notes, almost overnight, the parties have switched roles. Now it is the cons who trot out endless laughable, unelectable opponents, while the door to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is wide open…
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
8:47 am
“…because he appears to want to please everyone…”
But I do think this sentiment is absolutely incorrect…
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
8:52 am
md – ever heard of Blogger? me, I prefer WordPress
either way, they’re both ready when you are
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
8:53 am
“he appears to want to please everyone and winds up pleasing no one”
what do you recommend? someone who only tries to please his base?
Normal
February 28th, 2011
8:53 am
BOW,
I don’t care what you think…phbbt
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
8:54 am
I was a bit surprised.
why? GOPers have been trying to peel of black and Hispanic voters by using this as a wedge issue for years now. Did it never occur to you why they would aim to do that?
JohnnyReb
February 28th, 2011
8:54 am
Almost any Republican with enough guts to call-out Obama on his record would win – IF – the electorate would listen. Therein lies the issue; the electorate does not listen. “Jay Walking” is a prime example of why there should be a test to pass before voting. Knowing that won’t ever happen, we are left with a process where the biggest bull $hiter gets the votes, and thus far Obama outpaces them all.
godless heathen
February 28th, 2011
8:55 am
Obama, like any incumbent, has many advantages in the election. The economy will continue to improve despite Obama’s best efforts to derail it. Health care reform measures, for the most part, convieniently don’t take effect until after the election. I sure wouldn’t bet against him being re-elected.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
9:02 am
“Jay Walking” is a prime example of why there should be a test to pass before voting.
I’m not sure what this means.
I do hope, however, that you’re aware of the history of “literacy tests” applied in the past to disenfranchise voters. If you ever tried to impose any such thing today, no matter how neutral and unbiased you’d make the test, you’d never survive the court challenges.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
9:03 am
To me this is a classic case of the lesser evils. A vote for President Obama is definitely a vote for the lesser evil.
Bill Orvis White
February 28th, 2011
9:04 am
@AmVet — The Honorable President George Walker Bush will be appreciated in a few years when his library is built. People will attend the library in droves as they learn about the tough choices he had to make as commander-in-chief. No one has done more for the survival of Western civilization thatn GW Bush. He is a man of honor, character, decency, dignity and respect while Hussein Obama is the total opposite. Again, even the Libyan dictator knows that Hussein Obama is a Kenyan muslim anti-colonialist. If anyone wants to argue about where Hussein Obama was born, just ask, “Where’s the true longform birth certificate? What does Hussein Obama have to hide?” I’m totally serious. Some of you out there are laughing, but this is a matter of national security and it seems to me that so many of you have your heads in the sand!
Oh, I forgot to add Jimmah Carter in my list of the worst presidents. Who can ever forget that embarrassment — my bad. Most of our problems today can be traced back to Jimmah and then a few years later, Bubba. Jimmah created most of the economic mess for us while Bubbah Clinton let the jihadists run wild while his pants were down around his ankles.
Amen,
Bill
Normal
February 28th, 2011
9:04 am
But, I might consider Ron Paul…
carlosgvv
February 28th, 2011
9:05 am
USinUK
That is actually a quote from President Harry Truman about a politician of his day. Do you think you know more about politics than him?
Ragnar Danneskjöld
February 28th, 2011
9:08 am
Good morning all. Defeating a previously elected president is a rarity. Since 1888 it has happened three times (1912, 1980, 1992) and all three times there was a significant third-party candidate. Americans hate to admit that they made a big mistake. So unless we have high unemployment (ala 1992) or seemingly uncontrollable inflation (ala 1980), Chauncey could well be re-elected.
The most significant event that could defeat him would be if the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare “constitutional” – I suspect that the population, inflamed, would rise up to throw him out.
StJ
February 28th, 2011
9:09 am
“So, our choices will probably be bad and worse.”
It’s been that way for most of the elections in my lifetime. It’s just downhill from here.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
9:10 am
Oh yeah, President Bush’s Library. Titles like “See Dick Run”, “How to Start a War without Really Trying”, “How to Vacation Nearly Half of Your Terms and Get Away With It”, and “Yes I Screwed The Economy, So What”.
BOW WOW,
Just PHBBBTT!
@@
February 28th, 2011
9:11 am
John Stossel’s “Battle for the Future” is another series worth watching. This is Part 2 of a 6 part series.
If interested, you can catch the other parts by going to the right-hand margins.
John Stossel, Libertarian.
If you don’t take the time to watch, you either CAN’T or DON’T want to engage in the battle. You prefer surrender.
Just my opinion.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
February 28th, 2011
9:11 am
I was a bit surprised.
I’m not. At least half of the Black community shares values consistent with the conservative part of America. What keeps Blacks from aligning themselves with the GOP is the fringe element that appears to dictate what goes on for the GOP. A moderate, conservative group would capture a good percentage of the Black vote with no problem.
“Jay Walking” is a prime example of why there should be a test to pass before voting.
Our country does not have a stellar record when it comes to testing for voting privileges. I wouldn’t want to see that enacted again. Keep in mind, the White population will not remain a majority, and what you do to curtail minority rights now could come back to bite you in the ass down the road.
Gotta run.. check back later, and dB.. QUIT STACKING THE DECK AGAINST ME!!!!!!
that’s cheatin’
Deep Throat
February 28th, 2011
9:17 am
Rag, we do have high unemployment, I say Oblamer (1) will go in 2012.
Del
February 28th, 2011
9:21 am
I think it would be a real stretch to anoint Obama a 2 to 1 favorite, given the mid-term election results, the Republican governor pick up in swing states, the Independent shift and the Democrats lost ground in purple states. I think Rove calls it right when he says that Obama is a slight favorite. He’s the incumbent and that would make him a slight favorite but by no means a shoe in. It will really depend on who gets the Republican nomination.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
9:24 am
If the American electorate is stupid enough to elect this clown for a second term, then they deserve what they get. Let’s just hope that we keep a Repub Congress to keep him in check fiscally and perhaps a Repub Senate as a bonus. Then he will be properly neutered for the next four years. We have seen what happens with a Demo Congress and Bozo….. financial disaster. Also nice article about that idiot Tamera Cotman in the Atlanta school system. Seems like a typical Bozo voter. With people like this running things, how can we lose?
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
9:25 am
Again thanks for the sarcasm, Bill. (Honorable and Bush in the same sentence? That’s rich.)
I’m sure your grandkids are just gonna love his legacy. Borrow, borrow, borrow and spend, spend, spend. And then spend some more. And there’s that itsy bitsy little issue of how that dolt and his cast of cowards got 5,000+ GI’s KIA’d needlessly.
His first 100 days alone were a disgraceful debacle, and it only got MUCH, MUCH worse after that.
Arguably the worst in modern history, surpassing even Reagan’s thuggery and cluelessness, Nixon’s corruption and Carter’s ineffectiveness.
If that consummate failure, ever climbs out of the bottom 10 US Presidents, it will be a miracle.
And the GOP hasn’t had a competent prez since Ike.
Enjoy the education. (As if you’ll read any of it.)
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/broken_government/articles/full_list/
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:29 am
“That is actually a quote from President Harry Truman about a politician of his day. Do you think you know more about politics than him?”
grammatically speaking, that should be “than he’?
and, yes, despite the fact that Obama has done things that have pi$$ed me off, he is the President of the ENTIRE country, not just of the people who voted for him. I expect him – and every politician – to act accordingly.
we’ve had enough polarizing politicians who vote with only their base in mind.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
9:29 am
AmVet,
As long as we are trading president barbs, I would venture that the Demos haven’t had a competent president since Truman.
@@
February 28th, 2011
9:30 am
SoCo:
At least half of the Black community shares values consistent with the conservative part of America.
I agree with ^^^ that. This Pew poll was one of the more interesting I’ve seen.
I’m off to the market.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:30 am
“Let’s just hope that we keep a Repub Congress to keep him in check fiscally ”
… and the hits just keep on comin …
you people who have absolutely NO memory of 2001-2006 crack me the eff up.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:32 am
I’d have to take that 2/1. I’m hoping he won’t run. He just doesn’t have the desire to boldly lead.
Midori
February 28th, 2011
9:33 am
Is Bill Orvis White a parody, like Redneck Convert?
That guy can’t be serious…..
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:34 am
midori – BOW : Redneck Convert as Sarah Palin: Margaret Thatcher (evil b that she was)
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
9:36 am
The next POTUS election is still over 20 months away and Jay headlines an article “Obama almost 2-1 favorite to win re-election”
Oh brother! And if a frog had wings. No contender has stepped forward, but we’re touting the winner. Seems I remember McCain being in the lead until the stock market collapse. Had it been delayed by a few months McCain may have actually been elected, but that’s a “whole ‘nother story”.
Will I be shocked if Obama wins a 2nd term? No. But what a waste of time giving handicaps on the race.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
9:37 am
Though no Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln, at least the Dems had Clinton.
Who towers over the clowns that preceded and followed him.
And unlike the Hero of the Texas Air National Guard, he actually knew how to *effectively* prosecute a military campaign without creating a booming business for American undertakers and grave diggers…
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
9:37 am
US in UK,
Things have changed. And to emphasize the point, perhaps a quote from across the pond would be more appropriate.
“I contend that a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself by the handle”.
Winston Churchill
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:38 am
Just a reminder that 09/11 happened on Bush’s watch. He didn’t want to be bothered by swarming flies. When Clnton was swatting them the conservatives accused him of diversion.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:40 am
Nobody is trying to tax themselves into prosperity, but it would be nice if we paid the bills.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:40 am
kayaker – for the party of “fiscal responsbility”, you guys sure do like to spend beyond your income – then whine about “the children” … Dems at least like to pay for what we spend
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
9:41 am
“Towers over the clowns that preceded and followed him”…..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:41 am
TnG – 9:38 – TESTIFY!
Donovan
February 28th, 2011
9:42 am
Oh, please. Apparently, Bookman just got back from a weekend statregy session with Tucker on the same topic or he is light on his material on what to write for Monday. Anyway, when any rational person looks back upon the accomplishments of this inept president the track record is self-explanatory. Hmmm…let’s see. Unemployment still at a historic high, a national buget at a historic high, national debt at a historic high, a stimulus bill that was a non performing scam, a mid term election that was historic in Democrat defeat, government expansion to historic levels, government control of the private sector, out of control Democrat spending that has bankrupted this country, and a failed president that is out of his league. To those who say, “yes we can”, the duped American people are now saying, “no you won’t”.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
9:43 am
I’m sure the chickenhawks in the Neo-Con Party are still distraught, that agianst their cowardly wishes, Clinton brought an end to that slaughterfest in Europe.
Just one more in an endless list of Republican disgraces…
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
9:44 am
US in UK,
“At least the dems like to pay for what we spend”…… Yeah, with other people’s money, lately, mostly coming from China, about 5T of which did not exist until Bozo and his gang took over. How soon you forget.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:44 am
“Unemployment still at a historic high”
???
wtf?
hey. hyperbole boy, 9% /= 25%
but, nice try.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:48 am
kayaker – 9:44 – when your boy W took office, debt / GDP was 56% … when he left, it was 83%
you want to pretend that the deficit only increases under the Dems, then fine – that doesn’t mean you’re right.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
9:48 am
Jay – you are right on. I have already got my bumper sticker in hand:
“Obama – Friend of Gaddafi; friend of mine”
Eric
February 28th, 2011
9:48 am
While I sure don’t agree with the President on every issue, he’s far and away better than anything put forth by the republicans since Eisenhauer. Bush Sr was the best R since then and all the others have been disasters. Reagan was awful at best. Dubya was a moron. Nixon was smart, but his paranoia made him nuts. Ford was okay, but was only around for a short time. I don’t see a single R in the current crop that I’d even consider. President Obama will win a second term going away. War Damn Eagle!
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
9:50 am
Today’s column is proof positive that Bokman and Tucker get together each week before writing word one . . .
cosby smith
February 28th, 2011
9:50 am
Licking you chops, right Jay. And you are probably correct..but it is a s shame the press supports one who has dictator asperations, ignores the law and the constitution and has no clue on froeign policy. but, the way this world is going, who knows what it will be like in 2012. But the press will still be kissing Obama regardless!!
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:50 am
““Obama – Friend of Gaddafi; friend of mine””
oh, the drama!
Steve
February 28th, 2011
9:51 am
Great commercial for Obama…Jay.
Obama is not getting my vote…he is still inexperienced (obviously)…and after he said “Republicans can come along for the ride…but you gotta be in the back seat”…that was the end of him…not to mention 10% unemployment…$3.50 gas…his lack of respect for law(DOMA)…his slamming healthcare down our throats despite 60% not wanting it…his inability to say “NO” to spending …his lack of experience in foreign affairs…his philosophy to get re-elected being a higher priority than the good of the US…his meddling in state affairs…his position on illegal immigration…etc.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
9:51 am
US in UK,
Bozo conveniently loped off about 2M of those on the unemployment roles as those “who had just given up looking”, to get his magic 9%. He is still about a percent shy of what he needs. Who knows what kind of ploy he will come up with next to spin the numbers. There has never been a sitting president who was re-elected with unemployment above 8%. Perhaps Bozo will break new ground. BTW, while you have been across the pond, we still have one in ten houses that are vacant, foreclosures at an all time high and that pesky 9% just won’t seem to go down, no matter how much of other people’s money that we throw at it.
retired early
February 28th, 2011
9:51 am
Bill Orvis White
There is no GOD. When you die…it is OVER. Quit wasting your life following a fictional hero who promises to let you… live forever if you just “believe”…and give money.
Your kind has permeated politics to the detriment of middle class American. Party over Country.
Anti abortion and anti Gay rights is all you care about…this country could go bankrupt tomorrow and you wouldn’t care…as long as you are in control… with your religious agenda. Carl Rowe, whom you say you “love” played your kind like a ‘fiddle’ to get Bush elected…twice.
Now, do us all a favor …and just “go away……”
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:52 am
China owns about 7% of our debt. If the filthy rich would step up to the plate they wouldn’t hold that. 4T of that 5T belongs to ‘43′ who doubled the debt. Come back when Obama doubles it. And Bush submitted the first 2T budget, followed by the first 3T one. The first 1T one falls on the shoulders of the one that turned us into the biggest debtor nation in the world from the biggest creditor nation, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
9:52 am
AmVet,
Did you see this? One of the scum sucking Dodgers, I did admire is in the old ball field of dreams…
http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports-mlb/20110227/Obit-Snider/
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:52 am
kayaker – the method of counting unemployment hasn’t changed in more than 20 years – the BLS under Obama is doing the count the same way they did during Bush
jconservative
February 28th, 2011
9:53 am
Interesting debate.
Bill Orvis – “This “president” is by far the most incompetent “leader” in the history of the nation.”
But that has nothing to do with his ability to marshall a majority in the Electoral College. The following presidents knowingly, on purpose, signed huge deficit spending bills into law and were re-elected: Reagan, Clinton and Bush 43. The voters believed those 3 presidents were doing the right thing by “giving away the store”. So they were re-elected. The mind of the American voter is elusive.
Ragnar – “The most significant event that could defeat him would be if the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare “constitutional” – I suspect that the population, inflamed, would rise up to throw him out.”
I would disagree. The heart of Obamacare does not go into effect until 2014, well after the election. Voters have always had a difficult time getting their arms around something as nebulous as a bill set to go into effect in 25 months. History shows that the American voter rarely looks in to the future past tomorrow and rarely looks into the past beyond yesterday.
I agree with Ragnar’s assesment of the recent historical evidence that points to an Obama re-election. In 2008 Obama received 146 electoral votes from states he carried by 60% of the popular vote (McCain only 28 in same formula). All Obama needs is those “safe” 146 electoral votes and 123 more and he is re-elected with the 269 votes needed. Remember, Obama received 365 electoral votes in 2008, 96 more than the needed amount.
But 19 months is an eternity in politics. My recomendation is to keep your money in your pocket for at least another year.
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
9:53 am
I loved hearing Boehner this morning talking about how we have a moral obligation to tackle the deficit — but not by raising taxes — just by cutting spending — anyone knows that will not work in this environment.
But as a side note, let’s raise taxes on haircuts and oil changes — yeah, that’ll work.
Boehner in charge is only going to make Obama look good.
I see now where he’s pushing back “the shutdown” for a couple more weeks — hopefully my son’s passport will get processed before then.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
9:53 am
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:38 am
Oh brother, the blame game. Yes, 9/11 happened within months of W taking office, but to try to blame him for that tragedy is shameful. Why not go ahead and blame Clinton for the 1993 garage bombing at the towers? That should have been a warning for what was to come. But no, let’s go ahead and blame everyone else for the ship sinking and remain on board for the ride down.
retired early
February 28th, 2011
9:54 am
Eric
“War Damn Eagle”
Congrads on that NC….
Also, Good points…
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:55 am
Even if there is no afterlife, Chrisitianity has its rewards. Hats off to all you “good” Christians.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:55 am
bosch – as I said last week, cutting spending has done wonders for the UK economy – in fact, the 2nd GDP estimates showed a contraction that was worse than previously thought.
but, other than that … yeah, spending cuts are grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!
joe
February 28th, 2011
9:55 am
Bookman, did you steal this post from CT, or did she steal it from you? Either way, you’re both off your rocker. BO is toast.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
9:56 am
TnG – 9:55 – casseroles?
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
9:57 am
I did see that Normal.
The Duke of Flatbush is gone.
Speaking of our national pastime, what a shame the colluding clods that own those teams didn’t elect the Rogue Cowboy as commissioner. Sure he would have screwed up the game even further, but think how the nation would have benefited with him never having made it to Washington DC!
Where is that time machine when we need it?!
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
9:58 am
I wasn’t blaming Bush, just deflecting blame from Clinton. But it would have been nice if he’d notified the FAA of the increased risk so it might have notified the airlines. The airlines are the ones that dropped the balll after several of the perps had been flagged by the computer.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
9:59 am
Bush as Comish? Would our National Past Time become…wait for it… “The Bush League?”
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:00 am
Casseroles, too!
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
10:01 am
USinUK,
Talk is one thing, but actually doing is another — I think “cutting spending” while the new catch phrase of the decade has caught on in all it’s hipness — the reality is, what that means is cutting jobs.
Crenshaw8
February 28th, 2011
10:01 am
When Obama let the extreme left (see Pelosi/Reid) lead through his first two years, he lost the majority of Americans. We remain skeptical at best. He is more than a shill for the left. He is an avowed leftist and we now know it.
retired early
February 28th, 2011
10:02 am
Bosch
Good morning…
I have to laugh when Boehner uses the term “Moral values”.
I guess he is good at compartmentalizing his life…Having two mistresses=OK….
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:02 am
cutting spending has done wonders for the UK economy
Austerity in a time of high unemployment is stupid.
And back to our side of the pond, I don’t know why Obama can’t just have his guys say this about twenty times a day to anyone with a microphone until we’ve all got it figured out.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:03 am
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
10:01 am
Yes, “cutting spending” does seem to be the hip new catch phrase in 2011. Much like “hope and change” was in 2008.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:04 am
The job cuts can be held to a minimum if the spending cuts are made carefully. Clinton cut $250 billion AND raised taxes and the economy grew. Granted, probably not as much as it otherwise would have but the deficit came down.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:04 am
retired early
February 28th, 2011
10:02 am
Would you have preferred him to mention “two Americas”, or will you leave that to Edwards?
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:06 am
Bush as Comish? Would our National Past Time become…wait for it… “The Bush League?”
For the record, I actually agreed with GW Bush that expanding the playoffs to include wildcard teams was a mistake, at the time. I’ve come to live with the expanded format (who hasn’t?), but in retrospect, I think he would’ve made a decent Commissioner.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:06 am
My hope has changed to despair! Just kidding. Look on the bright side, our economy still supports over 130 million jobs.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:06 am
retired early
By the way, did you have time to digest the information about unemployment in the link I provided in an earlier post? Care to talk to me again about how unemployment has fallen under Obama?
jj
February 28th, 2011
10:07 am
The smart Repubs will just stand in front of a rolling photo show of OB hugging Mubarak, Khadafy, Chevez…..etc. They won’t even have to say anything as a picture speaks a thousand words.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:07 am
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:06 am
Same here. I don’t like the wildcard, and I still struggle with the designated hitter. I’m waaaaay old school when it comes to baseball.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:08 am
Would you dispute the 130 million jobs? It doesn’t matter what the unemployment number is when you consider that.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:09 am
TnG – “Clinton cut $250 billion AND raised taxes and the economy grew”
because of a little thing called the Intertubes. dot-com companies sprang up like mushrooms after a summer storm …
… I can’t think of any industry that could fuel the economy right now – can you?
Normal
February 28th, 2011
10:09 am
Stands,
Well, he had to be good a something…
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:10 am
Our President hasn’t done anything that would make make me hesitant about voting for him again. More importantly though, I haven’t seen a potential Republican candidate that I would even remotely think about supporting. But who knows, maybe the pubs will find SOMEONE who doesn’t have their head up their own ass to run this time. i doubt it though……….
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:11 am
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:08 am
Are you addressing that to me? Anyway, my point was that “retired early” was posting the Democrat talking points about how unemployment decreased under Obama. He cited google as his source. I went to google and found the chart from the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics and saw where it has actually risen under Obama. Granted, he inherited a mess, but to continue to spew the message that he has lowered unemployment is just plain ignorant or stupid, whatever the case may be.
harvey
February 28th, 2011
10:11 am
This doesn’t say much for Americans ability to learn. Obama is a train wreck, a total empty suit, a narcissistic pansy who doesn’t seem to have any opinion other than take money from the person who worked for it, and give it to my constituency–the unions, the uneducated, the fat, boring and lazy.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:12 am
Well, going green has turned out to be a pipe dream, so far. What about bounty hunting? Round up all the illegal aliens and others committing waste, fraud and abuse. Not to mention down right criminals.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
10:12 am
It seems that every time we raise taxes, there is some pressing crucial need to fix an immediate problem, but when the problem is solved and the economy perks up, those that make decisions never seen to lower those same taxes back to pre crisis levels. Just more of other people’s money to spend. We are up to 42% of spending/GDP now. The only time in our history that this ratio was greater was when we were fighting WWII, at about 51% but quickly came down following the war. We have been on a steady upward path of increasing this ration since 1950. We work now until mid April to pay our taxes. Soon it will be May, then June if this crazy upward spiral continues. Doesn’t that concern you tax and spenders or do we just leave that to the next generation?
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
10:13 am
TnGelding:
“It doesn’t matter what the unemployment number is when you consider that.”
Why don’t you ask the folks who are unemployed if it doesn’t matter.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:13 am
The smart Repubs will just stand in front of a rolling photo show of OB hugging Mubarak
Fine with me, just as long as they don’t run any footage of Obama hugging Tom Coburn. That always gives me the willies.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
10:14 am
Even if Gaddafi’s friend Obama wins in 2012, he will probably have to deal with a house & senate controlled by republicans who are still riding in the back of the bus.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:15 am
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”…..
February 28th, 2011
10:11 am
You and anyone else wanting to comment. Thanks for the clarification. Suffice to say there are too many unemployed as corporate America sits on trillions in cash and the feds run up trillions in debt.
Jimmy62
February 28th, 2011
10:15 am
Interesting. I wonder if the GOP attacked him like the Dems attacked Bush for 8 years if it would be different?
And yes, I know he gets attacked by the GOP plenty, but nothing like the Dems attacked Bush for 8 years. I haven’t seen Obama assasination fantasies on national television like the Bush assasination fantasies we got when he was in office. Despite the holier than thou attitudes of the left, the attacks on Obama aren’t even close to the kind of rhetoric directed at Bush.
Ooh! Look! A Ducky!
February 28th, 2011
10:18 am
Why don’t you ask the folks who are unemployed if it doesn’t matter.
Does it matter, M&M.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:18 am
are you ready to watch the wingers’ heads a’splode???
“Pregnant women should be told that having an abortion is safer than continuing a pregnancy, health experts have said.
Guidelines drawn up by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) for doctors, nurses and counsellors involved in terminations, state that “women should be advised that abortion is generally safer than continuing a pregnancy to term.”
Perhaps controversially, the draft guidelines also say that women should also be informed that “most women who have abortions do not experience adverse psychological sequelae” as a result of the procedure itself, but are related to pre-existing mental health conditions.
The guidelines have been drawn up by a working group made up of members from the RCOG, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Marie Stopes International.”
http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/Health-experts-should-advise-women-that-abortions-safer-than-pregnancy.htm
Ooh! Look! A Ducky!
February 28th, 2011
10:19 am
Palin/McCain 2012
retired early
February 28th, 2011
10:20 am
Leg Lamp
I tried the link…it did not respond…missing a character or something.
I’m out of here…
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:21 am
Ooh! Look! A Ducky!
February 28th, 2011
10:19 am
Drop that Mc and you might be right. A manly woman AND an African American.
Dee Limma
February 28th, 2011
10:22 am
Given a choice between delivering a three-headed child safely by C-Section or abortion, which will the GOP mom-to-be choose.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:22 am
Thanks for allowing me to participate. Have a great day everyone! Vote early, vote often!
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:22 am
retired early
February 28th, 2011
10:20 am
As I said earlier, you must put the letter h in front of the link before it will work. Cynthia won’t allow links on her propaganda site.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
10:22 am
US in UK,
I’m sure glad that my mom didn’t read your post….. you ought to be glad that yours didn’t either.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:22 am
“Gaddafi’s friend Obama wins in 2012″
actually he was Bush 43’s buddy…from Time ” Gaddafi accomplished one of history’s great diplomatic turnarounds when Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice announced that the U.S. was restoring full diplomatic relations with Libya and held up the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as “a model” for others to follow.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:23 am
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:22 am
“Vote early, vote often!”
Your Democrat colors are showing….
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:23 am
So they’ve all been fed their “Gaddafy’s friend” talking points from the Sunday bobblehead shows, I see.
Funny how I don’t remember any of them complaining when Bush normalized relations with that same despot a few years ago.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:24 am
I owe Granny a coke.
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
10:24 am
It’s called Reverse Psychology – nothing more. Of course Obama and the Demo’s are not going to lay down. This is just one of the ways that the GOP is going to keep the public involved. If people think that it’s going to be an easy victory, then they won’t be as passionate, involved or come out to vote.
TnGelding
February 28th, 2011
10:24 am
Shh, Granny! You’ll spoil his “legacy.” Outa here!
reebok
February 28th, 2011
10:24 am
Obama will win re-election in a cakewalk. The economy has stabilized, his approval ratings are edging back over 50%, and -most important- the GOP is held hostage to a right-wing fring that only about 20% of voters can actually get behind. Whoever runs against Obama next year will be a sacrificial lamb, much as Dole was vs Clinton in 1996.
Left wing management
February 28th, 2011
10:25 am
Today’s Tucker and Bookman are perfect bookends on a season of Republican euphoria giving way to gradual misery.
Yet frankly the fact that prospects look so good for Obama in 2012 is hardly a good sign for our future. Some of the most craven and calculating Realpolitik will be rewarded and many of the most desperately needed structural changes will remain unaddressed.
Here’s a thought though: what do you think Obama will do in ‘12 about the so-called Bush tax cuts?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:25 am
kayaker – my mother was avidly pro-choice – she saw too many women die due to home abortions or back alley jobs.
Big Steve
February 28th, 2011
10:26 am
Bookman and his liberal circle-jerkers continue to count the masses as being in-favor of the Chosen-one… “Actual Voters” , the productive citizens who care about this the country and the election process are clearly looking to replace the Mediocre-One…
A previous comment about the difficulty in beating a 1-term is correct. I am guilty of voting for Perot and many of us realize it opened the door to Clinton and the entire Democratic fiasco that we have endured… To think Sudan offered Clinton Obama back in 97 — and now the Mediocre One is going to lose the Middle East to Iran…
Gingrinch, Romney, Cain, Palin… can all beat Obama…. tick-tock, 1.5 years to go…
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:26 am
“Cynthia won’t allow links on her propaganda site”
2 lies for the price of one
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:27 am
dB – “Funny how I don’t remember any of them complaining when Bush normalized relations with that same despot a few years ago”
complain? hahaha – they BRAGGED about it! they BRAGGED how he “tamed” Gaddafi with his strong-arm tactics in the ME
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
10:27 am
the draft guidelines also say that women should also be informed that “most women who have abortions do not experience adverse psychological sequelae” as a result of the procedure itself, but are related to pre-existing mental health conditions.
among the many differences between American progressives and American conservatives: the former are not going to be clamoring for their state governments to pass laws forcing OB-GYNs to tell women about this particular study as a condition of, um, “practicing their love for women…”
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:29 am
dB – I’m just trying to imagine what would happen if the NIH tried to come out with a study like that – Boehner et al would be clamoring for their defunding.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:30 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:26 am
“Cynthia won’t allow links on her propaganda site”
2 lies for the price of one
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How so? Last time I was there, links weren’t allowed. Granted that was WEEKS ago. Has that changed?
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
10:31 am
Lamp, I concur.
Was George asleep at the switch prior to Sept. 11? I think that is not even arguable. He could have heeded those prescient warnings and done *something*. Instead he did………………….nothing.
But given that every CiC before him has an ostrich legacy as well, it is nothing new.
It was the neo-cons idiotic, lie-filled, contrived response to the shiny object called Iraq, that was so deadly and disappointing.
And simply the biggest reason, out of many, why he will never crawl out of the bottom tenth of presidential rankings.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
10:32 am
Gaddafi never called Bush his friend.
Reagan sent F111s to Obama’s friend.
Obama has given us a two minute speech about his love for the Egyptian protestors & a very lame threat vs. his friend Gaddafi.
Jai
February 28th, 2011
10:33 am
Yes We Can…Again!
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:34 am
reebok
February 28th, 2011
10:24 am
Obama may win re-election, but the economy has stabilized and his approval ratings are moving up? I’m selling on that rather than buying.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:34 am
Fred
First it’s interesting you don’t disagree with it being 2 lies….
Second, she has always allowed links, I do it all the time. I struggled with it at first because I’m better with hot breakfests than hotmail…
It’s a matter of learning and experimenting. My friend RW helped me.
Luis Martinez
February 28th, 2011
10:35 am
WOW… All the anti-Obama comments are nice. But me being a history major, i know a couple of things…. FDR is not one of the worse presidents…. He’s is one of the best according to historical research….Woodrow Wilson was also a great president, Nixon and Reagan were no where near the best presidents in recent times…that title goes to B. Clinton….. instead of critizising Obama, learn some history Republicans.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:35 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:26 am
Try posting a link without modifying it, then get back to me.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:36 am
MiltonMan – is historical revisionism a hobby for your or an avocation??
But now, a year later, Gaddafi and Bush do apparently see eye to eye. On Monday, Gaddafi accomplished one of history’s great diplomatic turnarounds when Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice announced that the U.S. was restoring full diplomatic relations with Libya and held up the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as “a model” for others to follow. Rice attributed the ending of the U.S.’s long break in diplomatic relations to Gaddafi’s historic decision in 2003 to dismantle weapons of mass destruction and renounce terrorism as well as Libya’s “excellent cooperation in response to common global threats faced by the civilized world since September 11, 2001.”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1194766,00.html
0311/0317 - 1811/1801
February 28th, 2011
10:37 am
If you think he’s bad now, just think how worse he can get if re-elected with no worries about placating voters for another re-election.
He can truly run amok.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:37 am
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
10:31 am
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Take the useless hyperbole out of that post and you summed it up pretty well. I especially like the bottom 10th comment. i got so sick of the far left wing nutjobs screaming “Worst President Ever” from practically the first day he took office. But after 8 years serving and a couple more for reflection, I think we can safely say the bottom tenth lol. Nice catch.
And on a similar note, the right wing nutjobs have been screaming “Worst president Ever” about Obama from the first day HE took office. Can’t they make up their own slogans?
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
10:38 am
Granny, typical liberal – baloming Bush for everything wrong today. I will pull a Granny on her by cutting & pasting:
Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, said the administration’s decisions were fully warranted.
“Libya has thoroughly altered its behavior by abolishing its program to develop weapons of mass destruction and ending its support for terrorism,” Lantos said.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
10:38 am
Bozo is like the Russians….. climbs on the bandwagon after the battle has been won and then attempts to take credit for his “immaculate perception”. His “finger in the air” foreign policy will catch up with him in the next year or so when he has to make a decision quickly. Then we will see how perceptive he is. Hell, it took him three days to take out a few Somali pirates. Don’t we feel better already?
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
10:40 am
Given the news of a choice between delivering a three-headed child safely by C-Section or abortion, which will the GOP Congressman of the GOP mom-to-be choose.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
10:40 am
USinUK – see my previous response clown. Please list all those Democrats that were against any recognition of Libya.
poison pen
February 28th, 2011
10:40 am
One term, and Carlosgvv, watch it or USuckinUK, will (grammoritize) you to death. What else can he/she do on company time?
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:41 am
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
10:31 am
“And simply the biggest reason, out of many, why he will never crawl out of the bottom tenth of presidential rankings.”
That may well be the case, but polls, and the American public, are very fickle. I researched Harry Truman and his name was mud when he left office. Now he has a very favorable approval. And without a college degree (especially the Ivy league variety) to boot. JFK was one who was revered, but a more objective look shows flaws like any other President. The Bay of Pigs was a disgrace. Also, imagine if a POTUS nowadays appointed his brother Attorney General.
A better view of Bush will some in about 20 years. He may still be in the bottom 10 like you say, but revisionist historians and a fickle public have done strange things.
jm
February 28th, 2011
10:41 am
Still a bit thinly traded and early. But fair enough. This will be more telling as we get into the early parts of 2012…..
But there’s no doubt… Obama’s anything but an automatic 1-termer.
kayaker 71
February 28th, 2011
10:41 am
It’s amazing what a few F-elevens will do to your resolve and to your attitude. And it wasn’t Bush that accomplished this but the much maligned Ronald Reagan. Can you even in your wildest dreams, imagine Bozo doing something like this?
Jean Paul Marat
February 28th, 2011
10:43 am
USinUK, dB: ““Funny how I don’t remember any of them complaining when Bush normalized relations with that same despot a few years ago”
complain? hahaha – they BRAGGED about it! they BRAGGED how he “tamed” Gaddafi with his strong-arm tactics in the ME”
What wise US leader uttered these (unknowingly) prescient words?
“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe—because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.”
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:44 am
Granny: Thanks, I’ll work harder at figuring it out and try again.
As to why I didn’t agree with TWO lies? Cynthia is definitely far left wing. Much more so than Jay. While I think she has some very valid points on many issues, there is nothing “fair and balanced” about her blogs. She slants them to the left.
Definition from Wiki: Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.
Her blog fits that definition. It’s not an indictment of her or her columns, just a statement of fact.
John Birch
February 28th, 2011
10:44 am
If he just tweaks his slogan to “hope and change I can BS you into believing again” he’s a sure thing!
Mick
February 28th, 2011
10:44 am
**If you think he’s bad now, just think how worse he can get if re-elected with no worries about placating voters for another re-election.
He can truly run amok.**
It’s bizarro world for the repubs as they get to know how the dems felt about bush being re-elected. That’s the worst president ever getting another 4 years whose main objective was to privitize social security and failing miserably (thank god) while driving t us off the cliff. sorry bill orvis but little bush had no business being president, and we’re the worse off for it…
Mr. Right
February 28th, 2011
10:45 am
Six more years of Obama— LORD HELP US ALL!!
Bob
February 28th, 2011
10:46 am
usinUk, if dems paid for what they spend, why are they running deficits of 1.4 trillion ?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:47 am
Milton – ‘USinUK – see my previous response clown. Please list all those Democrats that were against any recognition of Libya.”
sorry, bub. whether you like it or not, the dynamic duo of Bush and Condi became Qaddafi’s BFFs
poison pen
February 28th, 2011
10:47 am
AmVet, you claim that Bush was asleep prior to 9/11 but you failtd mention the five (5) times that Clinton was handed BinLaden and done nothing, being an armchair quarterback always looks good.
Mr. Right
February 28th, 2011
10:47 am
Fred– If Jay does not fit that definition then nobody does!
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:47 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:26 am
Try posting a link without modifying it, then get back to me.
I have no idea what you are talking about…never had to modify a thing….ask RW when he pops in
jt
February 28th, 2011
10:48 am
Only dummies would think who gets to be president in 2012 will make a difference.
Puppets are not elected.
Give peace and liberty a chance in 2012.
Ignore the federales.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:50 am
“Can you even in your wildest dreams, imagine Bozo doing something like this?”
yeah. because nothing says “we stand with the Libyan people’ like carpet bombing them
Oy.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:50 am
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
10:38 am
Granny, typical liberal – baloming Bush for everything wrong today. I will pull a Granny on her by cutting & pasting:
but you see I do it right and include attribution, you missed that part
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
10:52 am
As long as the American Idol President is on the ballot, he’ll get elected.
The majority of our young voters merely vote celebrity, not competence. It’s why the term “President” appears before his name today.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:52 am
Mick
February 28th, 2011
10:44 am
If you disliked Bush that much then perhaps it’s time for some introspection. The GOP, according to you, offered a terrible candidate, yet the best you could trot out was Al Gore and John Kerry? The Democrats have a long history to offering unelectable candidates:
‘72 – McGovern got creamed by Nixon
‘80 – Reagan destroyed Carter in a landslide
‘84 – Walter Mondale? (although he was better than his successors)
‘88 – Dukakis? BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
‘00 – Al “I created the internet” Gore?
‘04 – John Kerry?
I wasn’t overly fond of Bush, but I just could not make myself vote for the Democrats who opposed him, pure and simple.
Jean-Paul Marat
February 28th, 2011
10:53 am
0311/0317 – 1811/1801 : “**If you think he’s bad now, just think how worse he can get if re-elected with no worries about placating voters for another re-election.
He can truly run amok.**”
Actually I believe you’re missing the point about Obama just a little.
Far from allowing him to run amok, four more years will in fact give him ample time to implement his left-right fusion agenda, the results of which will be incalculable. Perhaps inertia will be permanently enshrined as our government’s modus operandi. Or, to envision what this future might look like, perhaps we ought to turn to science fiction. Maybe Obama will be the Jeff Goldblum and the country will be his fly, destined for monstrous deformation in a fusion project of radically opposed species.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
10:54 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:47 am
Then post a link straigth-up, no modifications. I tried it numerous times in the past and it doesn’t work. When I drop the h at the beginning of the link it works.
big un
February 28th, 2011
10:54 am
LMAOROTF. Bye-bye BHO.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:54 am
““I created the internet” ”
the zombie lie goes on and on …
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:55 am
Mr. Right: Sure he does. What’s your point? This (and Cynthia’s) are opinion blogs. That is the reason I didn’t address the propaganda comment in my first reply. It’s irrelevant. These are OPINION just as Bob Barrs blog is OPINION. His is right wing propaganda. But just because something is propaganda doesn’t mean it’s never true………….
John
February 28th, 2011
10:56 am
AmVet – You are a Moron! How’s that Kool Aid you’ve been drinking from Obama? You Democrats can win a single damn arguement on principal. It’s all BS rhetoric.
George W
February 28th, 2011
10:57 am
Jay, you fail to mention Romney. Why is that?
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:58 am
Talk about koolaid John. The uber rich got to keep their tax cuts, so now where are all those mythical jobs that would be created as a result?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
10:59 am
MITTENS!!!
George W
February 28th, 2011
10:59 am
Fred….you want results in less than 3 months on a taxation code (not cuts!). Obama has had over two years and it has gotten worse.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
10:59 am
Mittens?
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:00 am
Luis – a history major who knows a couple of things??? Dude, I think that you got screwed in your college endeavors.
FDR – I will give you that one as him being one on the best but Reagan near the bottom and Clinton being one of the best??? What do you base this on???
Please tell me what “scientific knowledge” you used to make the statements. Last time I checked, CPSAN, Times, WSJ, Siena were pretty consistent about Reagan was better than Clinton. Bush II deserves to be on the bottom.
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
11:01 am
GeorgeW,
“you want results in less than 3 months on a taxation code ”
Three months? Try eight years…..
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
11:01 am
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/arizona-sen-bundgaard-avoids-arrest-pos
You mean like this?
I just posted it for you at Ms. Tuckers…
Fred
February 28th, 2011
11:01 am
George W. what I want is for people to pull their heads out of their asses and think for themselves, not just quote slogans. I want people to judge everyone equally. I want them to stop being hypocrites. But none of that is ever going to happen…………..
Mick
February 28th, 2011
11:02 am
leg
You make a good point although if gore had prevailed, this country would be in much better shape, no question…as for kerry, he was head and shoulders much better than bush but rove had all those anti-gay ballot measures in the swing states which gave bush the edge. The repubs are in the same boat this time around. Who do they have? 2016 will be wide open, besides look how much damage repub governors can create. Rick scott in florida has proven to be a class A dolt….
Big D
February 28th, 2011
11:02 am
All I can say is GOD help us if we as a country elect this IDIOT again.
We ARE going down the toilet NOW and if you can’t see this YOU are an IDIOT.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:02 am
Fred – Mitt romney … MITTENS!
George W
February 28th, 2011
11:03 am
Bosch….you are right, 9/11 and the housing collapse (thanks Barney Frank) has nothing to do with the economic collapse! WAKE UP!
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:04 am
John – just remember that AmVet has told “us” millions of times now that he did not vote for Obama.
AmVets post bashing repubs: thousands (best one being when he called his rep – Dr. Tom Price a witch doctor).
AmVets post bashing dems: exactly zero
…but remember this guy did not vote for Obama. He is easy to spot. He drives around Alpharetta with an Obama ‘08 bumper sticker on his vehicle.
George W
February 28th, 2011
11:04 am
Bid D….AMEN!
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
11:05 am
George,
My response was to exactly what I quoted from you — you wrote that the current tax code has only been in place for three months, which is wrong……maybe it it you who needs more caffeine today.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:05 am
“They are so obsessed with the short-term political game of keeping the president from succeeding that they’ve taken their eyes off of the big goal … which is creating jobs and moving our states and country out of this recession,” said Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association
And that’s why we just loves our widdle Repubbies so much.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
11:05 am
OK, big John, prove your point.
You pick a prez, let’s say Bush. (Because you voted for him twice?)
And I’ll pick somebody else, let’s say Clinton (I voted for him once), and lets list their successes and failures.
And we’ll see who makes the better case
BTW, by making unprovoked personal insults, you’ve already lost, but I’m sure that such a principled (not principaled) guy like you already knows that…
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
11:05 am
AmVets post bashing dems: exactly zero
no so miltonman, just cuz you have not seen them does not mean he hasn’t….wish I could get him to change his mind sometimes….
George W
February 28th, 2011
11:06 am
Bosch….exactly….Your obozonomics numbers just dont work.
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
11:06 am
“AmVets post bashing dems: exactly zero”
Obviously you don’t read all of AmVet’s posts.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 28th, 2011
11:08 am
Well, if this Obama gets elected to a second term I’m going to volunteer jm and Big D and RW and a whole bunch of people to leave this country for good.
Anyhow, I don’t have time to do all this fancy research on the odds. I got a real job. I don’t get to go to the airport to feel women up or look thru a microscope all day and set behind a desk and act like a big-shot. I hump cases of beer all day and the only time I get noticed is when people run out of beer and begin to sober up.
Have a good day everybody.
The Original Get Real
February 28th, 2011
11:08 am
This is quite depressing but most likely true unless something significant happens between now and the election. The only really bright light is that Republicans will win additional senate seats so Harry “Get a Clue” Reid can go silently (almost anyway) into the night.
With Republicans having majorities in both Houses the potential damage of an Obama second term is greatly reduced…
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
11:08 am
George,
What the hell are you even talking about now? You wrote:
“you want results in less than 3 months on a taxation code ”
I reminded you that the tax code has been in place now for eight years, to which you reply “exactly” and then some really stupid made up word.
You wingnuts make no sense.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:09 am
Just because our beloved Tom Price had three or four or maybe more little malpractice problems and wants a little help from us to limit his and his fellow doctor’s liabilities for causing miscarriages and such things is no reason what so evah to be mislabeling him as a witch doctor. Incompetent perhaps but certainly not a witch. Why I doubt he has evah even held a broom.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:09 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
10:47 am
By the way, if you can post without modification, then why ask to get RJ involved?
Fred
February 28th, 2011
11:09 am
Bosch: George W is a mindless troll. Don’t waste your time. All he can do is quote the lines he remembers from the previous day’s dose of Rush. This is Monday, he’s had all weekend to forget the little he could remember from Friday’s show. Be easy on him…………..
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
11:10 am
Last US veteran of WWI dies in W. Va. at age 110
Wow, that’s amazing…..
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/last-us-veteran-of-855585.html
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
11:10 am
Dr. Tom Price a witch doctor?
It’s obvious that you hang on my every post Uncle Miltie, but you are incorrect about that “recollection”. I’ve never used the phrase. But as is generally the case with you, reality and the truth really doesn’t matter that much.
Though that moniker for him is pretty good. May I Joe Biden that one from you?
Pete Rose
February 28th, 2011
11:11 am
I’ll bet you I don’t vote for Obama…
Bosch
February 28th, 2011
11:11 am
Hi Fred – -glad you are back posting with us….
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:11 am
AmVet – gets all feminine on us when he gets called names but has no problem with name calling himself: Uncle Miltie, Bushie, neo-cons, etc. Wow!
…and now he has stooped to “My president is better than your president.” Excellent job Am on your role playing a 3rd grader.
BTW clown, I checked my 214 & nowhere did it mention Webelos. I saw a listing of Airborne school, Air Assault and Huey/BlackHawk schools.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
February 28th, 2011
11:11 am
58% Favor Government Shutdown Until Spending Cuts Are Agreed Upon
In general, just 27% of all voters think Congress should now authorize spending for 2011 at the same levels as last year. Six percent (6%) want more government spending, but 61% say Congress should authorize less spending that there was the year before.
rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2011/58_favor_government_shutdown_until_spending_cuts_are_agreed_upon
two iron
February 28th, 2011
11:12 am
What
a surprise! An AJC columnist saying something positive about a democrat.
The Original Get Real
February 28th, 2011
11:12 am
Tea Time at Dee Limma’s @ 1:05 am
Wow, a quote from the MD democratic governor….total and complete BFD
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
11:12 am
Leggy
It was RW….and that’s just how he taught me….
I suspect he regrets that at times!
Fred
February 28th, 2011
11:13 am
Milton Man: Dope from a rope? Really?
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:13 am
Or was that Phil Gingrey that did them malpractice thingys. Him and Tom look so much alike. It coulda even been Paul Broun. He might really be a witch doctor though. You know how these tea parties can be. We just get all of our talk all mixed up while sitting around watching FOX, our one and only source of news, and start blaming whoever for whatever. I just hope no one objects.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
11:14 am
Bosch, I’m fairly sure that Miltie has read many of those posts he denies. (He’s not exactly a paragon of truthfulness…)
Hell, I could link bunches of them, it would not keep him from coming up with yet another lie…
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:15 am
AmWay – you & Granny are two peas in the pod. She has no recollection on calling Lockheed a government company that develops C140s & you have no recollection of name calling your elected fed rep. Excellent.
Please refute that you are indeed from Nebraska, was an honorably discharged vet, live in North Fulton, save major industries from collapse because of your excellent consulting, etc.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
11:15 am
Bosch: Just waiting on 11:30 and had some time to kill lol. I still read, just haven’t had much time to post lately. Done a fly by now and then. That song Jay posted Friday was AWESOME. I’d never heard it or the singer Adele, before. Very powerful.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:16 am
AmWay – also judgemental on top of all his other accomplishments. He should be made the bi-polar poster of the year.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
11:18 am
MiltonMan: While I have no first hand knowledge one way or the other on the subject, I have to go with AmVet on the witch doctor thing. I sensed genuine regret in his post that he DIDN’T say it. It seemed to me like he wished he had because it’s a great name for him, but wouldn’t take credit for such a gem when it wasn’t his to take………..
MommaMia
February 28th, 2011
11:19 am
If that man (and I use that term lightly) is re-elected, then the voters need to have their heads examined. To vote for someone based simply on skin color has shown what it can do for us. He is running the country down the tubes, single-handedly, and at breakneck speed.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
11:20 am
Rags @11.11: Rasmussen? You can’t even trust them to do straight-up election polling any more; on issues, they’ve always been, and continue to be, absolute partisan crap.
carlosgvv
February 28th, 2011
11:21 am
UsinUK
Since you have such acute political acumen, maybe you should run for president. And thanks so much for that grammatical correction.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
11:22 am
“I checked my 214 & nowhere did it mention Webelos.”
Yep, you are a real man’s man.
And the day that you finally learn that by f’ing with the bull you get the horns, you can join George in becoming a real cowboy too.
Why you are so obsessed with me that you have to make up stuff is damn difficult to figure out though. And it is pretty weird that you do care to remember as much about me as you do.
Here’s one more of your innumerable “recollections” about me gone astray. (Three strikes and you’re out?)
I do not live in Fulton County. (You’re in a hole, but keep on digging.)
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:22 am
“…and now he has stooped to “My president is better than your president.” Excellent job Am on your role playing a 3rd grader.”
ahem.
pot.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:22 am
Jean-Paul Marat
February 28th, 2011
10:53 am
You ought to write science fiction…
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:23 am
carlos – hey, it’s your language – thought you might like to use it correctly.
as for the rest of it, you posted a statement. I responded.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:24 am
If that man (and I use that term lightly) is re-elected, then the voters need to have their heads examined. To vote for someone based simply on skin color has shown what it can do for us. He is running the country down the tubes, single-handedly, and at breakneck speed.
Nothing but term limits could keep a Bush down. You miss Georgie too, don’t you.
George W
February 28th, 2011
11:25 am
Tea Time….compared to this sleeze….yep I miss Mr. Bush.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:25 am
Milton,
I’d still take one AmVet over ten of you….just sayin’
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:25 am
Fred – sides with AmWay. Here is some other late-breaking news: the earth is an oblate spheroid.
He posted it. He might not remember but he posted it. Unfortunately, we live in the same district. If I am wrong, then are the other “gems” that I have psoted about him incorrect also? I am only regurgitating info he has posted in the past.
I would assume that you would also side with Granny on her not remembering her posts about Lockheed.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:26 am
I think MiltonMan is stalking AmVet.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:27 am
George W is in love with himself.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:28 am
Normal: “I’d still take one AmVet over ten of you….just sayin’”
Congrats. Did you think that one up while playing amongst your 2nd grade classmates?
Fred
February 28th, 2011
11:30 am
I dunno Milton nor do I really give a rat’s ass. I’m just going by what I saw. As I said, I sensed genuine regret in his post for not being able to take credit for it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:30 am
Milton,
Are you in the closet? It’s OK if you are, just admit it to yourself and you’ll feel better…then you can tell AmVet how you really feel about him.
DawgDad
February 28th, 2011
11:31 am
A lot of Blue States and major urban centers are broke or going broke. They’re all-in for Obama and the Dems, because they ultimately can’t survive without huge bailouts. Bookman and the AJC want you and me to pay their debts and for their failure to govern wisely. They want us to pay to enable the Al Gore’s of the world to reap windfall profits off trades in carbon markets they will invent and rig. They, the abortionists and abortion apologists, want control of our health care and hospice decisions. They have their sites set on our 401K investments. They want open borders and amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Obama is their straw man/front man. Look again at the economic and infrastructure decay in the Blue States and the major Democratic urban centers. This is your future if you vote Democratic and for Obama. Pretty clear choice.
Kamchak
February 28th, 2011
11:31 am
Please refute that you…live in North Fulton…
He has mentioned Doraville several times, but never North Fulton.
Wishful thinking?
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
11:31 am
Regurgitating?
Pepto Bismol time?
Houston, we have a problem. I have just been informed that Doraville is in Fulton County.
Which means for almost 32 years, I have been doing the Ann Coulter and voting in the wrong district.
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
11:31 am
Tea – typical liberal who confuses stalking with memorization skills.
I am impressed by the high number of liberals on this thread today. The AJC must be offering free print version of the paper to ya’ll.
Go for it.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:33 am
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
11:31 am
I dunno about the Coulter thing. Maybe you do the Rahm Emmanual thing, run for office in a city where you haven’t lived in a year.
0311/0317 - 1811/1801
February 28th, 2011
11:33 am
Headline: “GADHAFI PASSING OUT CASH”
Hey, I bet he got that idea from Obama.
StanH
February 28th, 2011
11:34 am
Well the people of the United States were stupid enough to elect his the first time….what makes you think they are any smarter now than then……If the people of this country are that stupid then they get what they deserve…..personally I wouldnt vote for him for dogcatcher!!!!!!
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:34 am
Milton,
you stated, “Congrats. Did you think that one up while playing amongst your 2nd grade classmates?”
No, it was after careful consideration of all of the facts in which you were weighed, measured and fell short…that I made my decision…
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:34 am
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:25 am
Now that’s somewhat open to debate.
If it’s “take AmVet over 10 of you” to a Thrashers game, then I agree. Much more cost effective. However, if it’s for a rough game of “red rover”, I might take the 10 over AmVet. Just sayin…
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:35 am
“I am impressed by the high number of liberals on this thread today. The AJC must be offering free print version of the paper to ya’ll.”
um. you know retorts usually work best when they make sense.
if we’re online, why would we want a dead-tree edition.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:36 am
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:35 am
As a historical reference for future talking points?
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
11:36 am
Headline: “GADHAFI PASSING OUT CASH”
Hey, I bet he got that idea from Obama.
ahem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:37 am
Leg,
Really!
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
11:37 am
um. you know retorts usually work best when they make sense.
like f’rinstance: Hey Milton Man, don’t you have a white enclave to carve out, somewhere?
@@
February 28th, 2011
11:38 am
AmVet is a third-party advocate. A Nader supporter, in fact.
He gets to be right, either way, but never wins an election.
He prefers to hide in the crack. He shies away from responsibility.
He needs to be committed.
schnirt
Alatsea
February 28th, 2011
11:39 am
If BO wins he will have to face a GOP dominated congress. It will be a total waste of 4 years in this very precarious time for America. He almost destroyed the country in 2. I don’t want to see what this loser could do in 8. You might have to get use to praying to Mecca.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:39 am
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
11:37 am
An “enclave”? Isn’t that a car made by Buick?
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:40 am
Republicans will have another chance to elect their choice for the White House in 2012. Just pick McCain and Palin again, like last time.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:41 am
leg – 11:36 – HA! now, that was funny.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:42 am
Tea Time at Dee Limma’s
February 28th, 2011
11:40 am
Wow, what a zinger! I’ll tell you what, let’s have the GOP run McCain/Palin and the Dems run Kerry/Edwards. Odds anyone?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:43 am
dB – this bears repeating:
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors.
oh, yeah … those GOPpers are fiscal GEEEEEENyusses – great way to run a war
IamNotResponsible
February 28th, 2011
11:43 am
Generally an incumbent president is pretty hard to beat when running for re-lection unless the challenging party has an unusually strong candidate, which the Republicans don’t. The stronger Republican candidates are probably waiting until 2016 when they won’t face an incumbent and will have a more sure chance of winning.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
11:46 am
IamNotResponsible
February 28th, 2011
11:43 am
I’ve thought the same thing. Remember, Reagan didn’t win on his first attempt.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:46 am
Wow, what a zinger! I’ll tell you what, let’s have the GOP run McCain/Palin and the Dems run Kerry/Edwards. Odds anyone?
You go ahead and pick McCain/Palin again and we’ll see if Kerry gets picked over Obama. What odds you offering.
Fiesta
February 28th, 2011
11:47 am
Americans want balanced (gridlocked) government. That lesson was reinforced by the rubberstamping GOP Congress during the Bush years. Obama will win re-election, and the GOP will take control of the Senate.
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:47 am
I posted this earlier downstairs for my daily funny, but it needs to be here too, heh
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/02/25/political-pictures-abraham-lincoln-glenn-beck-republicans/
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:51 am
If Republicans really think that President Obama was elected solely because of his skin color then maybe they should worry in 2016 if Jessie Jackson decides to run again…
larry
February 28th, 2011
11:52 am
Enter your comments here
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
11:53 am
If Obama is as terrible as the Republicans say he is, then even McCain/Palin could win this time around. You Republicans should test that theory.
kmb
February 28th, 2011
11:53 am
Obama effectively has one year to turn around unemployment, the housing market, bankrupcty of the state and local government, and prove that the world is a safer place to be than when he became President. Without those accomplishments, the Democratic party will lose the Senate and have further losses in the house. His threat isn’t from the Republican party, but rather from his own party which may revolt at his inability to solve the major issues of the day. Sure, if the Republicans are stupid and nominate someone who is too far to the right, they may lose. That is what Rove has been saying for months. It’s not going to be anyone but Obama. The electoric in 2012 will be voting out of desperation for leadership not change. If the Democratics and Obama can’t resolve the budge deficit problem along with Medicare and Social Security before 2012, that will be a major demonstration of a lack of leadership. People are angry and some have loss hope and faith in this government doing the right thing.
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
11:54 am
USinUK,
What you failed to let everyone know in your 11:43 is that it was Iraq’s money to begin with.
Epic Fail!
KimZ'spackage
February 28th, 2011
11:54 am
Last I heard you can only kill a pig once, but you can sheer a sheep many times. The American public is as dumb as sheep. People care more about what is on TMZ about “STARS” than real politics.
George W
February 28th, 2011
11:55 am
Jesse Jackson couldnt get elected to clean toilets at a local high school much less president…..
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:56 am
kmb
February 28th, 2011
11:53 am
You need to learn what the President can and cannot do…
Normal
February 28th, 2011
11:57 am
GW, or so you hope…
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
12:01 pm
If a Republican candidate for president does so much as looks to the left, he’ll get canned. That’s how far right the Republican party has gone. Your best choice is a re-run. McCain/Palin. They’re the least far right of your far right options that even have a chance. Unless you find a good running mate for Barbour.
carlosgvv
February 28th, 2011
12:03 pm
USinUK
It’s just that I hate to see such superb politican talent and humility go to waste. Maybe you can at least be on the back bench in the UK.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:05 pm
Mystery Meat – like that makes it okay?
hey! contractors lining their pockets with billions of dollars is fine because, hey! it’s money from Iraqi oil!!
oy.
did you hear the POINT as it went whizzing by you???
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:08 pm
carlos – no MP for me – I can’t even vote in a general since I’m not a UK citizen. but thanks for thinking of me.
of course, I see you’re still choosing to ignore point of the post – that it’s better to have a President trying to serve the ENTIRE US, not just his base …
try addressing THAT point rather than your crush on me
joe
February 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
And another thing…how high does gas prices have to climb before BO taps into the US oil reserves…and give the go-ahead for gulf and Alaskan shelf drilling?? What the heck is he waiting for?? I guess with his misguided high speed rail initiatives, maybe he won’t ever do the right thing for our country. Yes, another reason he’ll be re-elected…NOT.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
Yep, you just knew knew my full time leghumper was not gonna tolerate part-time leghumpers getting any glory.
The chick is tormented.
Schnort…
Adam
February 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
Wow I like how within the first few comments you people who hate Obama with a passion threw Rove under the bus. Classy.
I hope you guys stay complacent in the 2012 elections. The enthusiasm gap is YOURS now.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
An “enclave”? Isn’t that a car made by Buick?
yep. I was thinking he was carving a white one out of Ivory soap.
jm
February 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
No reason to tap the oil reserves. They’re for emergencies. This is not an emergency….
Only the crazy democrats want to tap the oil reserve. They’re such government price setting socialists its mind boggling.
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
There is a dynamic coming up in the next few months that could change the odds of an Obama re-election.
What is he going to do about cutting the deficit? Does he fight Republicans in the House? Does he let Harry Reid do his dirty work in the Senate?
Right now, the public really does care about spending, and they are in a much different mood than they were in 1995, with a much more capable President in the White House. If Hope & Change stonewalls cuts and the government gets shut down because of his actions, the GOP isn’t going to be seen as the bad guys this time around.
Could affect his re-election chances, even with the increased turnout of the Dumbest Generation (18-25 year olds) in 2012.
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:14 pm
You do a LOT of assuming USinUK.
You need a lot more than your opinion on where that cash went. Since you weren’t there, I guess you really do know what happened – right?
Oy!
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
12:15 pm
Normal, thanks for labeling me short on your standards. It might burst your bubble a little pal but I take it as a compliment that I do not meet your approval. I guess we can start calling you Normal Jesus since you have a “knack” for judging people.
joe suggs
February 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
Obama the clown needs more time to destoy this country !!
Political Mongrel
February 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
All invective, cheap shots, insults, and other blather aside, no poll, opinion piece, prediction, gloating, warning, or any other fortune-telling means nothing. The only thing that counts is the vote of the Electoral College, which is tied to the November 2012 election. The rest is either public self-congratulation or self-gratification.
Political Mongrel
February 28th, 2011
12:17 pm
Sorry, I meant anything, not nothing.
harvey
February 28th, 2011
12:17 pm
Your headline just means we are in real trouble because we have 2 to 1 freeloaders, grifters, and union members for every taxpayer in private industry. This means we will surely destroy our country because you can’t kill the golden goose and still feed the so-called poor. How stupid of the liberals to believe the “rich” are a bottomless pit. Many friends I know are boogying on out to more favorable places to live, Thailand, the Phillipines, where the US tax collector can’t go.
Doggone/GA
February 28th, 2011
12:18 pm
“Only the crazy democrats want to tap the oil reserve”
Not this one.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:18 pm
Mystery Meat –
12:14 – let’s see … it was totally unregulated, it’s gone missing, but it DIDN’T go to lining any contractor’s pockets …
you’re a laugh flippin’ RIOT, you are, MM …
so, tell me, do you believe in the pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow, too???
jm
February 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
Doggone 12:18 – all the propositions to tap it thus far have come from Dems….
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
“Many friends I know are boogying on out to more favorable places to live, Thailand, the Phillipines, where the US tax collector can’t go.”
huh.
and I thought all the kewl kidz were Going Galt …
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
Republicans have indeed weak candidates for president; just like the Democrats have even weaker candidates at the state level here in GA. The re-tread Barnes for governor??? Please.
Who will be the chosen one for the dems in 2014? Barnes yet again, Jim Martin, Reed, Shirley Franklin, T. Baker, Vernon Jones, etc., etc.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:18 pm
“pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow”? Nah, the Obama administration confiscated that…..wanted to spread the wealth around.
Adam
February 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
harvey: Right. The only people who would vote for Obama are freeloaders and union members. That must be why 53% of the public voted for him. Because 53% of us fit that description in 2008.
Doggone/GA
February 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
“all the propositions to tap it thus far have come from Dems….”
So? I’m not responsible for their opinions…only my own.
Hambone
February 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
he he he,
it be a COLD day in h*ll before i vote for obummer
Left wing management
February 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
MiltonMan: “I am impressed by the high number of liberals on this thread today. The AJC must be offering free print version of the paper to ya’ll.”
What’s a liberal?
KatyWatts
February 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
Heavens, Say it ain’t so. Obama is, far and away, the worst President this country has ever seen. He is a social elitist who favor unions and communists. He’s is bankrupting this country with his entitlement, no, investment, spending. No matter what kind of spin you want to put on it, if he is re-elected, get ready to learn mandarin chinese because that’s who this country is going to end up working for!
MiltonMan
February 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
Adam, that would be 47% of freeloaders (pay 0 federal income tax) + 6% who were so fed-up with the republicans garbage that they wanted hope and change. So yes you are correct, not all free loaders.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
“Republicans have indeed weak candidates for president; just like the Democrats have even weaker candidates at the state level here in GA. The re-tread Barnes for governor??? Please.”
and the republicans gave us Deal. What a couple of losers. I voted for Monds……….
RB from Gwinnett
February 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
I was almost sure today’s post would be about Obama’s big oil buddies getting rich off this recent gas price increase. I guess Jay is still working on that one….
If gas goes to $4/gal, perhaps this time you’ll pay attention to what triggered the last collapse. The housing bubble was a victim of it, not the cause, and all you mental midgets haven’t been paying attention to WHY people could no longer pay their mortgage at the same point in time.
And there are still morons on here thinking $5 gas would be the best thing that ever happened to us because it would force us all to walk to work or use mass transit. Here’s a clue for you…. There wouldn’t be any work to walk to and there wouldn’t be any public funds to increase mass transit capability.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
Left wing management
February 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
“What’s a liberal?”
Google “Wisconsin protesters”.
@@
February 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
AmVet:
Yep, you just knew knew my full time leghumper was not gonna tolerate part-time leghumpers getting any glory.
Find a new insult. That one’s never worked on me. I’m pretty sure it’s getting tiresome to everyone else although your leftist friends would never say as much.
George W
February 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
Fred….you are right. Obama was such a strong candidate…no experience at all….I wonder how he got elected?
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
8:46 am
SoCo, I’ll take even odds on the prez being labeled socialist before this thread is though.
Talk about close but no cigar!
He is a social elitist who favor unions and communists.
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
“and I thought all the kewl kidz were Going Galt …”
Nah, we already were kewl. The Galt thing just makes us super-kewl . . .
Normal
February 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
Milton,
As my Grandpa used to say, “You can call me what you like, just don’t call me late to supper”.
Actually I’m a pretty civil guy as most here can attest, but when someone, right off the bat, starts name calling and insults, I just have to try to give a little back to see if they can take as well as dish out. My personal opinion is that you can’t take it.
But having said that…you may have some good points to offer, who knows?
I don’t because once I get to the names and insults I quit reading. If you really want to make your point, try being civil…works for me.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
“and I thought all the kewl kidz were Going Galt …”
Nah, we already were kewl. The Galt thing just makes us super-kewl . . .
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You far right wingers sure like your drug addicts to do what passing for thinking for you. The amped up meth ho Ayn Rand, and the give me downers til I lose my hearing Rush.
At least THEY can blame their whacked out thinking on the drugs they did……….
RB from Gwinnett
February 28th, 2011
12:31 pm
I love how the party who got their clocks cleaned just 4 months ago has now proclaimed themselves winners 20 months from now.
And the debate about global warming is over too, eh?
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:32 pm
Fred
February 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
Speaking of the effects of drugs (no, I’m not talking about Obama), let’s look at your post:
“You far right wingers sure like your drug addicts to do what passing for thinking for you”. Some bad LSD perhaps?
George W
February 28th, 2011
12:32 pm
RB…..how quickly they forget huh?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:32 pm
Enter your comments here
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:32 pm
You’ve lost it UinUK.
Are you a fan of Vinyl? Because you just keep spinning it round and round.
Let’s go back to your post – shall we?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
11:43 am
dB – this bears repeating:
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors.
oh, yeah … those GOPpers are fiscal GEEEEEENyusses – great way to run a war
Now the statement about disbursement to US Contractors is not true and the second statement from you about GOPpers sp has nothing to do with the topic at hand. The US was returning Iraqi surplus funds – BACK to the Iraqi government. You’re the one that decided to spin it another way.
Sorry hon – EPIC FAIL!
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:33 pm
Dave – Steve McQueen = Super Cool
Going Galt = Super Lame
not to mention – I’d love to see a list of people who actually, you know, DID
al
February 28th, 2011
12:33 pm
How can he be favored when nobody knows who he will run against
AJC writers are dumb as hell
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:35 pm
al
February 28th, 2011
12:33 pm
Agreed.
Hey, in a proposed matchup for the 2012 Super Bowl, the Packers are favored 2-1 over the Cleveland Browns.
George W
February 28th, 2011
12:36 pm
Leggy….love it.
Midori
February 28th, 2011
12:36 pm
I see the bots are being paid by the insult today.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
12:36 pm
Hmm. I can’t say I would ever have actually expected to encounter anyone who would defend losing 12 billion dollars of cash, but if I had to wager who among the regulars might do that, I guess a guy willing to call himself “Mystery Meat” might be the one.
jhg
February 28th, 2011
12:37 pm
granny – you didn’t vote for obama, you just voted democrat
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
12:38 pm
AJC writers are dumb as hell
um… oh, never mind. I keep forgetting that a solid majority of Jay’s right wing critics never bother to read more than the headline.
Sister Mary
February 28th, 2011
12:38 pm
If Obama get re-elected …it will be the end of America as we have loved!
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:38 pm
Midori
February 28th, 2011
12:36 pm
I don’t know, maybe the “bots” are being paid for their print, much like Tucker. And how do you earn money?
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
12:40 pm
Gotta love the cons and their elective memories.
After getting epically decimated in the previous two elections, including a still jaw dropping ZERO for 36(!), they finally win one and now they prance around like they are the NY Yankess…
Dusty
February 28th, 2011
12:40 pm
Well, I see that Rome burns while every blogger explains. Our wonderful USA, that is.
Obama, not a bad man but a bad president, will be elected if one of the following men of leadership is not put forth by Republicans. We who love this country wish to see one of the following as president: DR. ROBERT M. GATES, GENERAL PETRAEUS or former governor JEB BUSH.
Any one of those three could be our next great president. They have already proved their abilities. Not one has agreed to accept the presidential challenge.. Republicans must beg, pray, promise, that one of those three would run. We need a real president, a man who can lead this country to further greatness. Right now, we have an advisor run conglomerate in the Oval Office. All we need is one strong man.
Ajehwen Gaffihi
February 28th, 2011
12:40 pm
We will chain the Great Satan soon.
jm
February 28th, 2011
12:41 pm
usinul “going galt” raincheck. but one i intend to cash
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2011
12:41 pm
jhg
nope.
please play again.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
12:41 pm
OMG, I should be waterboarded. I misspelled Yankees.
Color me mortified…
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:42 pm
MM – what part of “were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors” and “”One contractor received a $2m payment in a duffel bag stuffed with shrink-wrapped bundles of currency. Auditors discovered that the key to a vault was kept in an unsecured backpack.” says to you that contractors did nOT get the money???
I mean, there’s poetic license, but I think you’re taking it a bit far.
there was, indeed, an EPIC FAIL – but it wasn’t mine.
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:42 pm
Stands – did someone hit you with an Idiot Stick?
It wasn’t the US money to begin with. What part of that don’t you understand? No one cares if the Iraqi’s frittered it away – it wasn’t OUR money.
Yeah and let’s turn this around on you – WTF kind of name is “stands for decimated”? WHO the eff would call themselves that?
Fred
February 28th, 2011
12:43 pm
Gee leg lamp you have crushed me with your brilliant rebuttal. But to be honest, I never had any BAD LSD. It was all pure.
Now that i think about it, where the hell are those flash backs they promised………………
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:43 pm
jm – if you’re numpty enough to give up thousands in income to NOT pay $10 in taxes, then have a ball.
just remember, we’re not laughing WITH you …
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:45 pm
USinUK, Steve McQueen? – so 1960’s . . .
Besides, he’s d-e-a-d, like a boiled squirrel.
Now Raquel Welch? Hot then, still hot now. How cool is THAT? Just sayin’
Midori
February 28th, 2011
12:45 pm
LegLamp Bot,
I work for a living. And you?
and by “work” I don’t mean spending many hours posting horse manure “disguised” as debate.
And what does Ms. Tucker have to do with it?
She’s a professional journalist who is paid for her “opinions”.
Jay is a professional journalist who is paid for HIS “opinions”.
And you’re just one of many lost in the wilderness that we call the world wide web. And your opinions couldn’t pay for a cup of coffee – hold the sugar.
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:47 pm
AmVet, Yankees spelled any other way is L-O-S-E-R-S.
From a BoSox fan.
stands for decibels
February 28th, 2011
12:47 pm
Mystery Meat, who was tasked with securing this $12 billion that “no one cares” about?
as for my screen name, presumably your google is not broken.
Doggone/GA
February 28th, 2011
12:47 pm
“just remember, we’re not laughing WITH you ”
Reminds me of a co-worker many years ago now. She came into an inheritance and paid off her house, then was appalled the next year because she didn’t get nearly as big an income tax refund – so she went out an bought a vacation home!
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:48 pm
Midori
February 28th, 2011
12:45 pm
“and by “work” I don’t mean spending many hours posting horse manure “disguised” as debate.”
But that’s exactly what you do. We all know your posts are irrelevant, but go ahead, condemn yourself.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:49 pm
Dave – RW scares me – she hasn’t changed in 800 years! Now, Helen Mirren, she’s hot. (Just saw RED this weekend – if you haven’t seen it, it’s a really good movie
I hate to admit it, but I only recently saw Bullitt – you could hear my jaw as it hit the floor. I think Damian Lewis (Maj Winters in Band of Brothers) is this generation’s Steve McQueen.
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:49 pm
Unfortunately, USinUK you’ll believe everything you read on the “internets”. “Well der that what ma internets telled me – uhuhuhuHUH! Gee it must be true. Hey Mildred looky here it say US loss 14 billion dollas – er derrrrrrrrrrrrrr.”
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:50 pm
“She’s a professional dog washer for the Democrat party who is paid for her “opinions”.
Jay is a professional dog washer for the Democrat party who is paid for HIS “opinions”.
Fixed your typos, Midori. No thanks needed.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
12:50 pm
Sophia Loren has to be one of the hottest of all time. She also aged well.
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:51 pm
“It wasn’t the US money to begin with. What part of that don’t you understand? No one cares if the Iraqi’s frittered it away – it wasn’t OUR money.”
I CARE!!! it wasn’t OUR money to begin with – but it was OUR responsibility to distribute it – to use it to help the Iraqis rebuild their country … and what do we do??? LOSE IT to a bunch of mercenary contractors
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:51 pm
Like I said decibels – stupid name.
The cash got there – it was given to the Iraqi government. What more do you want?
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
12:51 pm
“RW scares me – she hasn’t changed in 800 years!”
Isn’t that 1,000,000 years, B.C.?
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:52 pm
It wasn’t OUR responsibility to distribute it!
WTH is wrong with you?
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:53 pm
MM – so, basically the fact that it was a Congressional Oversight Committee that reported all this is … what? an urban / internet legend?
I mean … just … wow … we usually only see this kind of stoopid on a Friday or in the night crew
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:54 pm
MM – regardless of the philosophical question of whether we SHOULD have had responsibility for distributing it, we TOOK responsibility for distributing it …
and dropped the effing ball
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:55 pm
Dave –
— yeah, that, too!!
Fred
February 28th, 2011
12:55 pm
I think MM is really Jay posting with an alt to drive up the post count lol.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
12:55 pm
I know, Dave. Hope you and JB get to got to a Boston game together. (grin!)
Back in 2002, your Beloved Beaneaters were here to play the Braves and I wore my Yankee hat to the game. Just for fun.
Walking out of the stadium a bunch of Bosox bozos saw me and went wild with the Yankees suck chants.
I calmly turned around and looked and them and said one thing, 84.
Which put a damper on their little parade…
AmVet's Mystery Meat
February 28th, 2011
12:55 pm
Opinions vary
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
12:57 pm
USinUK
February 28th, 2011
12:53 pm
” we usually only see this kind of stoopid on a Friday or in the night crew”.
As opposed to those on the left (like Muh doh ree), whose “stoopid” is front and center all day long.
Corey
February 28th, 2011
12:58 pm
Dang Jay, just the mention of a possible second tern for Mr. Obama brings out the worst of haters; the gnashing of teeth, the slitting of wrists, and don’t forget Mr. Broun’s loyalist at the town hall meeting. I haven’t seen such display of hatred and vile since the throes of Jim Crow.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
1:02 pm
Corey
February 28th, 2011
12:58 pm
Correction, you haven’t seem this level of hatred since the 2004 election when Bush won a 2nd term.
@@
February 28th, 2011
1:05 pm
Russell Crowe is HOT! Johnny Depp is HOT! HECK…even Dave Ramsey is HOT!
Helen Mirren’s a fine actress, but shriveled.
Midori
February 28th, 2011
1:06 pm
Lamp Bot – I never, EVER, once claimed that my opinions were the be all to end all.
Contrary to you. You’re so full of them. And it.
Time for me to get back to putting food on my family.
Midori
February 28th, 2011
1:07 pm
and Lamp Bot,
if stupidity were doled out in coins, you’d be very rich. Indeed.
Stupid is as stupid does.
And you do it so very well.
Later Peeps.
Tea Time at Dee Limma's
February 28th, 2011
1:09 pm
I know Republicans hate Obama but why are Republicans unable to cite specific factual items that they hate about Obama aside from their more obvious reasons including “because”, “just because”, “because I said just because”, etc.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
1:09 pm
Midori
February 28th, 2011
1:06 pm
“… putting food on my family”.
Don’t you have any plates?
Dave R.
February 28th, 2011
1:10 pm
AmVet, I do think it is a sad commentary on baseball in Atlanta that they can’t fill their park except when the Sawx and the Dark Side
come into town.
Last time the Sox were in town I got to go to a game, and the chants for the Sox drowned out the chants for the Braves. Pretty sad when you come from a place that has sold out over 350 times in a row as Yawkey has.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:12 pm
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”…..
February 28th, 2011
1:09 pm
Don’t you have any plates?
=========================
Now THAT was funny.
Atlantan
February 28th, 2011
1:12 pm
Perhaps he can get gas to $7.00 a gallon in his second term. Wonder whatever happened to the poor lady who thought she wouldn’t have to pay her mortgage again now that The One had finally been elected. If anything he should be educational to all Americans on how not to govern or rule as Obama prefers.
Rafe Hollister
February 28th, 2011
1:13 pm
Are you better off today than you were on 20 Jan 2009? Nuff said?
jm
February 28th, 2011
1:17 pm
Dems are disgusting….
The continuing resolution must win approval in the House and Senate — so things could still fall apart — but the agreement on a bottom line suggests the government won’t shut down on Friday.
Republicans and some Democrats say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and top lieutenant Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) staked out shaky turf from the start by saying they weren’t willing to shave a dollar from the budget over the short term.
“What’s the use of a hard line if you’re going to back off it in two minutes? These guys are the worst at playing chicken that I’ve ever seen,” a senior Democratic aide said of Senate party leaders. “They get in the car to play chicken; they go in reverse.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50297.html#ixzz1FHLwM3jn
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Yep Dave, I think it’s the blowback from 14 consecutive seasons of October ball, but only getting one championship.
I did go to a game once at Fenway. (I worked for a company headquartered in Framingham) It was great fun, but was one of those endless games with about eight pitching changes and it took forever! And though it was late summer, I damn near froze my rear end off.
The upshot, we all went out partying until the wee hours and the next day when I flew back to the ATL, I was so sick with the flu or something that I could barely make it home. Little old ladies in walkers were zooming by me!
Good times, though…
George W
February 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Rafe…..An Astounding NO!!
Jack
February 28th, 2011
1:21 pm
I don’t care what Rove or anybody else says, we will defeat Obama in 2012: it’s our only hope.
AmVet
February 28th, 2011
1:22 pm
Rafe, I’d say the republic is.
Just the side benefit of regime change and getting rid of those recidivist criminals…
George W
February 28th, 2011
1:24 pm
Rafe….hmmmm more debt, less jobs nope I dont think we are doing better.
Big D
February 28th, 2011
1:26 pm
Rafe,
I am much better off, this jackass POTUS is making me more rich by the day. I’m in the energy conservation industry and every time he does something stupid like driving up the cost of energy my phone won’t stop ringing…and I still hate him because he knows exactly what he is doing…killing this country from within. They said they would do it as soon as they got their man on the inside, so go ahead and put him back in, make me rich enough get the hell out of here when bottom falls out.IDIOTS
George W
February 28th, 2011
1:28 pm
Big D….I agree with you. I dont see how they cannot see what this guy is doing to the country. It is amazing.
Toni
February 28th, 2011
1:29 pm
I hope not! As a minority, I am disgusted with how Obama is running this country! I definitely was not happy how Bush ran it either, but, to run on hope and change and what we got…High unemployment, record foreclosures and a wimp who compromises with the republicans instead of fighting for the very same people who voted him in! Unions will finally see who side he is on! He is for the rich as well! I hope someone will run in the democrats place besides this idiot! I just want him out of office in 2012!
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:33 pm
Rafe Hollister
February 28th, 2011
1:13 pm
Are you better off today than you were on 20 Jan 2009? Nuff said?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hell yeah, wife just got a 3.5% raise. That’s on top of the 7.5% one a couple of months ago. about $25000 more a year than in 2009.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
1:36 pm
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:33 pm
Based on your math, if Obama had delivered the tax package he campaigned on, your taxes would have gone up.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:39 pm
I’d STILL be better off. What’s your point?
And what “math?” I mentioned her last two raises and her total increase since 2009. There was no “math’ involved. It was writing.
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
1:41 pm
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:39 pm
Regarding the “math” – If your wife received 11% in pay raises (about $25K more), then her salary would exceed $250K. He’s still gonna try to get some of it back through taxes, “fees” or however he tries to disguise it.
Big D
February 28th, 2011
1:42 pm
George,
That’s easy… they’re stupid.
JustMe
February 28th, 2011
1:43 pm
It’s sad, but I just feel the GOP doesn’t have any viable options against Obama. Most of them are either already on the lunatic fringe of the party or are moving closer and closer to that point (which was what killed McCain’s chances for me in ‘08 – if he had just stayed true to his beliefs and not nominated Sarah Palin as his VP he likely would have had my vote).
JustMe
February 28th, 2011
1:45 pm
a wimp who compromises with the republicans instead of fighting for the very same people who voted him in!
That maybe true, but you also need to realize that when he compromises like that he is making inroads with independents and he can’t win without the independents.
George W
February 28th, 2011
1:45 pm
JustMe….There are some really viable options out there. Remember that up until about 8 months before the election everyone thought that Hillary would get the nod for the Dems.
Sam Sewell
February 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
“Hell yeah, wife just got a 3.5% raise. That’s on top of the 7.5% one a couple of months ago. about $25000 more a year than in 2009.”
I she a public employee?
George W
February 28th, 2011
1:51 pm
She must be a union worker! ha.
Big D
February 28th, 2011
1:51 pm
Justme,
Are you completely blind to just how much of a “LUNATIC” this POTUS and the Dems are…Good God man they just walked out of a sitting Senate in Wisconsin because they did not want to lose the vote!!! AND this IDIOT POTUS says he with them…If that’s not crazy we really need to change the definition, but you’re right you guys are really good with that definition change thingy. I would LOVE to see how bad the liberal media would portray the Republicans if they pulled that stunt.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
Sam: No
Leggie: Read again: I mentioned her LAST two raises, ie not ALL raises since 2009, and the TOTAL increase since 2009.
Oh, and you need to check YOU math lol. She got a 7.5% a couple months ago. Then she got a 3.5% increase. The 3.5% increase was based on her salary AFTER she got the 7.5% increase. So in essence the total raise from her base salary from 2 months ago was more than 11%. I’d have to look at the actual numbers to get the precise percentage but it’s more like 12 or 13 percent.
Which is good because when she was negotiating it I wanted her to ask for 10%. Good thing she didn’t listen to me THAT time lol.
Me be votin'
February 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
I agree with this assessment. So long as the current ‘blame the rich’ political agenda continues, and gov’ment schools keep dumbing down the electorate, and 50% of the american public pay no taxes, dumbocrats will continue to be elected. God Save the King!
Where's my cash?
February 28th, 2011
1:59 pm
Anyone catch the latest CBO numbers (last week) regarding Obama’s Stimulous Package? $250,ooo per job! Now there is a great use of our tax dollars!
The Leg Lamp is a "major award".....
February 28th, 2011
2:03 pm
Fred
February 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
Your wife sounds like a good negotiator. I’m looking to buy my teen a car. Maybe she can help.
kmb
February 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
@NORMAL:
It’s been so long that we’ve had an effective President that people have forgotten what a leader can do. Obama let Congress write most of his legislation. Effective Presidents submitt their own bills. We need a budget that is reasonable. We need need a President who every day is doing something to get jobs for Americans, not watching them go to China and elsewhere. We need a program that corrects the housing collapse before foreigners buy up all of the homes in the US because they are dirt cheap and we pay rent to them, as is happening in Florida with Canadians. Presidential power is limited, but in Obama’s situation he has given it over to the Democratic leadership of the House and Senate.
Common Sense
February 28th, 2011
2:12 pm
“And then there is Jimmy Carter. His 50% job approval rating in early 1979 is slightly better than Mr. Obama’s is today.”
We know what happened then too, don’t we?
Answerthis
February 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
If Obama had not give states $$$$, what would the employment number look like? All the states, conservatives who think it was so bad…give it all the $$$ back…
Fred
February 28th, 2011
2:20 pm
I despise Jiminy Carter.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
February 28th, 2011
2:22 pm
@Fred
If your wife received a raise of 11% in the last few months you do recognize that is is extremely unusual in today’s job market. Good for her and I’m sure she deserved it but I hope you know that is not the norm….
In this job market people are lucky to even find a job, much less get a raise of 25K making their salary over 250K. What line of work is she in??
Fred
February 28th, 2011
2:23 pm
She’s NOT over 250k lol. I wish although if she were willing to travel 6 days a week she could make over that as a consultant.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
February 28th, 2011
2:24 pm
@Answerthis
How many jobs did the stimulus save? Just wondering??
George W
February 28th, 2011
2:24 pm
Answerthis….ok tell you what….the states can give back all of that money that you “speak” of. IF all of the Demoncrats that urge for higher taxes will write checks this April to the Federal government to pay back their share of the debt this joker is building up.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
2:26 pm
Gee Georgie, how about the banks and wallstreet writing some checks to the federal Gov’t to practically ELIMINATE some of the debt that Bush straddled us with?
WOODSTOCK MIKE
February 28th, 2011
2:26 pm
This article sums up the exact MAJOR issue this country has right now……
Obama is our best option as president, that’s a real shame….
George W
February 28th, 2011
2:27 pm
Fred…..You are right….we would be SO much better off if all of the banks failed and the NASDAQ hit 4000.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
2:30 pm
What’s the matter Georgie, only the little people are allowed to have a hard time? Why do you hate your country so much Georgie?
Big D
February 28th, 2011
2:32 pm
Answerthis,
The Government cannot “Create” profit making jobs…yes, my friend we HAVE to make profits. Government jobs “COST” the tax payer money, there is no profit to be made just handing out jobs. Get rid of the money “black hole” Jimma Caata created with the Department Of Energy. We did not need it before him and we damn sure don’t need it now. Obama has cost us over a half million jobs in the oil industry alone.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
2:32 pm
And of COURSE the big boys on wall street shouldn’t have to suffer the consequences of the stupidity of their greedy ploys. It just wouldn’t be right would it?
George W
February 28th, 2011
2:32 pm
Fred….I love my country….our country. I just hate what this lunatic is doing to it.
buck@gon
February 28th, 2011
2:33 pm
Oh Jay!!! You made my day!!!!!
The Cynthia
George W
February 28th, 2011
2:34 pm
Fred….your hatred for corporate America and the wealthy fuel your hate. Until you open your eyes and understand American business you will always lag behind.
BADA BING
February 28th, 2011
2:47 pm
The Republicans have 20 months to find a 1/2 Black-1/2 Hispanic, lesbian, Muslim that Oprah likes, if they want to win.
Fred
February 28th, 2011
2:52 pm
I OWN a business you chuckle head. Have for 20 years. If I screw up like those rectal pores ion the banks did I suffer the consequences. They get a free pass.
You love your Country? Then why no complaints about the trillions of dollars to Iraq and Afghanistan? Why no complaints about the nearly trillion dollars to AIG who promptly shipped it over seas?
Yet you complain about money spent n America on AMERICANS? Sure you love you Country………..
Just a Thought
February 28th, 2011
3:10 pm
Jimmy Carter may have met his match with our current president. Weak, inexperienced, and weak.
Just a Thought
February 28th, 2011
3:12 pm
Fred, slow down, dude, you’re going into a conniption. Breath…..breath……
Johnny B. O Brien
February 28th, 2011
3:13 pm
With idiots like Rove and Huckabee around the GOP, who knows. If anyone republican ever has the balls to call it like it is, then Obama would of been impeached by now. How can anyone with a fraudlent SS # be in the White House? How can anyone fill out a SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION in 2008 on a 1990’s form and then back date it to 1980 be in the
White House? How can anyone who has never shown any records be in the White House? this man to this day , based on the facts in an illigal alien, an Indonesian citizen squatting on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Rove and Huckabee, along with all the other republicans and democrats no I am telling the truth. I am getting to despise the GOP as much or more than the DEM’s, hell we know the Dems are phoney and worthless trying to destroy our country, but the GOP has no balls.
Aquagirl
February 28th, 2011
3:25 pm
Oh no. Birfer alert! Nurse, nurse, he’s out of bed again!
Gat Real
February 28th, 2011
3:27 pm
The only people that would vote for him twice are the ones with and IQ <50 or someone that just enjoys watching a 3 ring circus! If he runs for a second term he might as well consider having Hugo Chavez as his running mate! Their ideas and goals seem to be right on track!
chillywilly
February 28th, 2011
4:02 pm
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FOUR MORE YEARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
khc
February 28th, 2011
4:13 pm
when will they prosecute the criminals on wall street and in the real estate industry…..and get some of our money back?
DwayneL
February 28th, 2011
4:14 pm
If the American people are stupid enough to re-elect this failure as president then this country deserves what it gets! I don’t see it happening though…..the blacks have their president and they won’t come out and vote twice in one century!
Boris Badnov
February 28th, 2011
4:33 pm
Why no blog from JB on Ted Kennedy renting a Democrat Den Mothers house on a trip to Chile? Of Course Osomabomba will win a second turn. Look at the miracles he has worked. Full employment, everyone’s 401k maxed, the Chinese are buying all of our products including the Chevy Volt, peace all over the world, and an end to partisan divisiveness in politics. That man is a genius.
John Birch
February 28th, 2011
4:42 pm
His total mishandling of the ME situation will result in $8 a gallon gas and 12% unemployment by the election. He’ll be lucky just to avoid impeachment before then.
JMoore
February 28th, 2011
4:56 pm
Subject: Fw: Budget Cutting
The President ordered the cabinet to cut $100 million from the $3.5
trillion federal budget.
I’m so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same
thing with my personal budget. I spend about $4,000 a month on groceries,
household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc, but it’s time to get out the
budget cutting axe, go through my expenses, and cut back.
I’m going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio, 1/35,000 of my
total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $4000
a month; I’m going to have to cut that number by 12 cents. Yes, I’m going
to have to get by with $3,999.88, but that’s what sacrifice is all about.
I’ll just have to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries.
(Did the president actually think no one would do the math?)
WOODSTOCK MIKE
February 28th, 2011
4:58 pm
For those of you who are so pleased with Obama’s performance thus far can you please explain to me what accomplishments make you so sure that he will be re-elected??
What makes you believe he is doing a good job? What has he done??
I just can’t think of anything the man has done that makes me want to re-elect him.
It’s so funny to read articles like this showing statistics to back up a re-election. All I read is that because the Republicans don’t have a better candidate at this point Obama will win in default.
What a sad situation.
Figures
February 28th, 2011
6:21 pm
I still defy each and every one of Obama detractors to PROVE where our country would be today had Obama not intervened with Stimulus II.
For all the “God things are dismal” claims, it’s hard to imagine what level of devastation would have visited our country with the stimulus.
Vance
February 28th, 2011
6:48 pm
Obama will win in a landslide. I also believe The Democrats will gain seats in Senate and take over the House again…The republicans are not capable of being visionary. For them, its all about bumper sticker ignorance and apocalyptic fearmongering. The voters gave them a chance and they blew it.
It doesn’t help them that that their candidates are caricatures….Herman Cain (Fred Sanford), Sarah Palin (Ellie Mae Clampett), Mike Huckabee (Gomer Pyle),
Madera
February 28th, 2011
7:04 pm
Uh, Vance, Republican bumper sticker ignorance? Which party relied on catchy, bumper-sticker worthy phrases like “Yes We Can” and “Change We Can Believe In” to get a novice politician whose only executive experience was as a community organizer elected?
How are Cain, Palin, and Huckabee anything like the “caricatures” (I presume you meant characters) of Fred Sanford, Ellie Mae Clampett, or Gomer Pyle?
Dems won’t gain in the Senate. The Senate race is in the GOP’s favor because 2006 was a Democratic wave year that narrowly ousted Republicans and propped up many weak Dems who might have otherwise been defeated.
My Name Changes
February 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
And then there’s a clip from youtube that makes people go huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlfiBnJ-Pg&feature=player_embedded
lynnie gal
February 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
All the republican chest pounding won’t change a thing when Obama wins a second term. No one among the republicans has sense enough to be president, and thus, they will be losers once again.
My Name Changes
February 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
Chris Christie has way more experience than Obama did at this point.
CC 4 P !!
itpdude
February 28th, 2011
7:59 pm
All Obama needs to do is not look crazy.
TruthBe
February 28th, 2011
8:21 pm
Obama has to go! America cannot afford the Obama’s for a second term. The corrupt liberal liars in the media like Jay and Tucker are a large part of the problem because people don’t get the real story about how corrupt and perverted the democrats really are. The Obama adminstration is the worst one yet. At least Jimmy Carter was a Christian and not a Muslim like Obama.
Tom Middleton
February 28th, 2011
8:29 pm
Go for it, Mr. President. Yours is the one moderate voice available to help cure our bipolar nation of its self-destructive tendencies and idiocy. And after that? Why more political moderates from the Democratic Party, of course – the only place moderation can come from anymore!
Thulsa Doom
February 28th, 2011
8:36 pm
The tweedle brothers. I have issued a new proclamation for the 2 most loony liberals out there. Going forward one shalt now be known as tweedledee and the other as tweedledumb
KAMCHAK = TWEEDLEDEE
KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT = TWEEDLEDUMB
Titles most befitting these 2 clowns.
independent thinker
February 28th, 2011
8:42 pm
Dear Woodstock Mike: I did not vote for Obama but can name a number of significant accomplishments:
1. Only presidential candidate to promise he would get us out of the quagmire GW Bush and the neocons got us into in Iraq without cutting and running and to actually accomplish that goal (unlike Eisenhower who gave up in Korea, Nixon and Ford who led us to defeat in Vietrnam; Reagan who turned tail and ran in Lebanon letting Hezbollah get away with killing 250 Marines and GW Bush who ler Sadaam stay in power at the end of the Gulf War -all notable Republican failures.)
2. he ended the worst economic crisis since the depression without a total collapse of the banking industry and loss of American auto manufacturing;
3. he passed a health care program to deal with Reagan’s unfunded mandate called EMTALA that was a socialist requirement that paying patients pay for all uninsured and nonpaying patients who show up for treatment causing hospitals acrooss the country to close;
4. More terrorist plots have been stopped under him than under George Bush who ignored warnings repeatedly before 9-11;
5. he did not raise taxes;
6. Obama has a secretary of defense, a secretary of the treasury and a secretary of state who gain respect throughout the world;
7. His opponents all are a bunch of clowns and has beens.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
February 28th, 2011
8:57 pm
Yeah, and you probably thought the LOONEY dems would win big in 2010.
You can take it to the bank (one of the tax payer bailed out ones) that NObama will be a ONE term prez.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the Liar Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
February 28th, 2011
9:00 pm
independent thinker –Thanks for the chuckles. You forgot:
BROKEN campaign promises and bringing change to Washington
• The national debt rose above $13 trillion dollars, up $1.7 trillion in just one year.
• Rarely does a politician get caught in such a blatant break of a campaign promise as President Obama did with his “I’ll put health care negotiations on C-SPAN” pledge. Obama had promised at least eight times during his run for presidency that he would do so
• Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008. Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve THREE (3) jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations/communications firm headed by Penn.
• Obama entered office, vowing he would do what George W. Bush had not: lead the world to a global climate accord.
• White House said “Pass the stimulus bill and unemployment won’t go above 8.2%, it’s now 9.8%”
• Recipients of federal stimulus dollars have overstated the number of jobs created or saved in GA by more than 1,500, according to an AJC analysis of public records
• Quote: “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war….You can take that to the bank!”
• Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac need more than $30 BILLION more taxpayer dollars
• the White House is NOT for sale
• Transparency
• bipartisan support
• close Gitmo
• Timmy the TAX CHEAT Geitner
• ACORN
• find Osama bin Laden
• NO lobbyist on the White House staff
• all bills put on line so the public can read them first
• no tax increase for anyone making less than $250K
• ….What happened to “if you’re happy with your health plan you can keep it?
More than 3 million seniors may have to switch their Medicare prescription plan next year, even if they’re perfectly happy with it. “As a result of this policy, there are going to be fewer plans offered in 2011.”
Back in September President Obama challenged Republicans to “not hold middle-class tax cuts hostage any longer” and derided continued tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of the country. “We are ready, this week,” the president said, “to give tax cuts to every American making $250,000 or less.”
Oil to Highest Price Since 2008
and on, and on, and on……let’s say it again, mmm, mmm, mmm Barack the LIAR Obama
independent thinker
February 28th, 2011
9:20 pm
mmm, mmm, – I got two words for you “mission accomplished”- the biggest farce ever by an American President- how many Americans died since then all for his incompetence?
Lil' Barry Bailout
February 28th, 2011
9:31 pm
2-1 odds, eh? In early 2009, what were the odds the Democrat party was going to get their arses handed to them in 2010?
Keep wishing for your Idiot Messiah. It all comes down to who shows up to vote…Americans or Obama supporters.
independent thinker
February 28th, 2011
11:27 pm
Chris Walker in 2012 and the Republicans have an even chance.
Neu
March 1st, 2011
11:49 am
I get it…if you mention Herman Cain as a possible replacement for President Obama…you can’t be a racist. In this case I’ll through another name out there for you to help your cases….Alan Keyes! HA
Neu
March 1st, 2011
11:50 am
*Throw
hypocrites
March 1st, 2011
12:14 pm
haha look at all these sour grapes from a pack of treasonous, anti-american idiots. they can’t handle the fact that the president is a success so they have to retreat beneath the familiar conservative security blanket of false realities. pathetic. i can’t wait for 2012 to roll around just to watch the GOP get their butts handed to them for another four years. the whining ignorant tears of a conservatives are so delicious
oldtimer
March 1st, 2011
12:34 pm
Not by this former Georgian. The only way that would work is for a Republican House and Senate!!!
WhoCares
March 1st, 2011
12:47 pm
Seems to me that somewhere, probably about 4 years ago at this time, Hillary Clinton had the odds to become President? Also, that George Bush had no chance for re-election in 2004 and Dukakis was going to beat the first George Bush. Do we see a pattern?
WhoCares
March 1st, 2011
12:49 pm
And btw, I would rather have the GOP controlling the House and Senate in 2012 than them winning the Presidency. The President has NO power unless the Congress is behind him.
TLamar
March 1st, 2011
12:54 pm
I would like to know why people think that Ronald Reagan was such a great President? The trickle down affect only trickled to the weathliest in this country. Everyone keeps mentioning fiscal responsibility for who and what? His son recently stated he was suffering from alzheimers and his wife consulted a psyMy husband and I were considered middle class working American who had savings and thank God paid our house off before the bottom fell out. However, we are both educated hard working people and we didn’t get anything out of the Reagean administration. It did nothing for middleclass Americans . I know most southern Whites can’t phantom the thought that President Obama being re-elected. If you are putting your money on Palin or Newt, then you have lost the election already.
carlaroqs
March 1st, 2011
1:39 pm
@BOW- bless your heart and newt gingrich’s heart if he makes president– and Lord please preserve the USA if that happens. 95% of your post is… whatever it is, but the newt portion is the worse. have you been around for the last 25 years? oh, but yeah, you seem the type to have contributed to the country’s woes for the last 200 years.
chillen
March 2nd, 2011
3:40 pm
A sock puppet could beat Obama in November 2012. We’ve had about enough “change”.
chillen
March 2nd, 2011
3:43 pm
@tlamar. Reagan was a great president who toppled communism and inspired America. He loved America, he defended it voraciously and he was optimistic. Exactly what America needed in a recession.
Contrast that with the community organizer. He clearly does not love America, I’ve never heard him say it,. He wants to change America into his personal socialist eutopia. He does not inspire the right people. He has inspired the entitlement crowd, but they don’t create jobs. obama is the opposite of what we need in a recession.
Glenn
March 2nd, 2011
3:48 pm
Not the biggest Obama lover . That being said just to many loons on the other side . Just seem to try & gain to much popularity by scaring the ignorant . He will get my vote by default alone .
Adam
March 2nd, 2011
10:11 pm
Glenn’s post actually indicates where the mindset of your average voter is who isn’t along party lines. Republicans, you need to get your act together and LISTEN to your constituency to find out what they really want, and then DO IT. Don’t get into Washington and call whatever votes you get a “mandate” to do things that only your base wants.