‘Empty suit with broken zipper’ under attack in Iowa
Newt Gingrich has become the target of an all-out advertising and media blitz in Iowa, launched by fellow candidates and others determined that he will not become the party nominee.
Ron Paul is using his money to savage the former speaker. (”Pointing out people’s positions is not negative,” Paul says.) A pastor backing Michele Bachmann is calling Gingrich “a very fine, empty suit with a broken zipper,” dismissing him as “a glib, wordy cheater.” Mitt Romney says Gingrich is “zany,” and has released an ad that closes with the question “With friends like Newt, who needs the left?”
Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney PAC, is also running the following ad:
It’s apparently having a serious impact. A new Rasmussen poll now puts Romney ahead in Iowa with 23 percent of the vote, with Gingrich second at 20 percent and Paul at 18 percent. Public Policy Polling also reports a tight three-man race, with Gingrich (22 percent) falling quickly, with Paul (21 percent) and Romney (16 percent) close behind.
More telling, a PPP poll a week ago put Newt’s approval/disapproval numbers at 62/31. In the new poll, that has dropped to 52/40, and support among Tea Party voters has fallen from 35 percent to 24 percent.
– Jay Bookman
Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
499 comments Add your comment
scott
December 15th, 2011
1:04 pm
you notice how when anybody says anything bad about Obama, libs just say ” well…..you can add that to the list of blah blah blah blah….” Rather than admit that the guy is clueless, they just ignore it. Is it because you have accepted that he is clueless without his teleprompter. Oops….I said that one. Is it because you are ashamed because you voted for a guy who has socialist tendencies? Oh damn….there’s another one. Is it because you are too stupid to realize how much he doesn’t like this country because he has pretty much said it. Wow….another one. I gotta stop stating these words. Face it, the guy is terrible. And although I think Newt would be a terrible selection for President, he would kick the living crap out of Obama in a fair debate. By “fair” I am talking about actually asking Obama tough questions rather than the softballs he was thrown in ‘08. Even SNL made fun of those when they showed the questions he faced versus the ones Hillary had to answer.
Welcome to the Occupation
December 15th, 2011
1:04 pm
Did somebody just say “destabilized”?
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:04 pm
But…but…but…Cheney said that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.
Aquagirl
December 15th, 2011
1:05 pm
Bush actually WORKED while on the so called vacation unlike Obama who plays golf and ride bicycles.
Everyone please welcome the President’s social secretary to the blog. /massive eyeroll/
USinUK
December 15th, 2011
1:06 pm
right, Jm … sooooooooooo unstable!!
Wall Street rallied Thursday, as stronger labor market and manufacturing data lifted sentiment after three days of losses, while higher quarterly profit from FedEx also boosted equities.
(snip)
“It all speaks to further stabilization and a very positive trend in the U.S. economy,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey. “It will give a bid to U.S. equity markets and make EU markets look relatively less attractive.”
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9468005-wall-street-rallies-after-upbeat-economic-news
Peadawg
December 15th, 2011
1:07 pm
“But…but…but…Cheney said that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.”
The way Obama’s going it looks like he believes that too.
Stevie Ray
December 15th, 2011
1:07 pm
SCOTT,
Yes…when you take responsibility for NOTHING (as our campaigner in chief) and lay blame on others ad nausea, it’s easy to respond with one liners call those who disagree liers…I hope BO gets a second term just to see if history will reflect he was the only sitting president who did not feel responsible for economy, unemployment, or runaway entitlements…YES WE CAN/CHANGE WE BELIEVE IN= IT”S NOT OUR FAULT..He seems to be admitting that he is handicapped from taking responsibility for issues that clearly are presidential…
AmVet
December 15th, 2011
1:08 pm
ex-pat, in my best Bush 41 voice, “not gonna happen”.
No matter what moniker of the month he uses, “Ross” is accustomed to the Tucker style of blogging that he perfected – the slogan/sound bite/bumper-sticker technique.
The only real difference is that he has had to clean up his act over here.
But who knows, maybe he’ll shock the world and elucidate on the history of middle east “destabilization”.
LOL!
Mark
December 15th, 2011
1:08 pm
Looks like Newt is slipping in the polls! Republicans don’t really wants this guy. They are just desperate for a front runner and none of them are worthy. LOL
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/poll-dramatic-drop-gingrich-support-iowa/258131
Thulsa Doom
December 15th, 2011
1:09 pm
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:04 pm
But…but…but…Cheney said that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.
And Obama reproved it on a whole nother level. 4.6 trillion in deficits in less than 3 years.
scott
December 15th, 2011
1:09 pm
stands for decibals….I qasn’t arguing about Obama’s vacation at all BTW….It is about his moocher wife’s vacation and the unnecessary cost associated with it. Nothing more. If this was a Republican doing this, would you still feel ambivalent towards it?
Granny Godzilla
December 15th, 2011
1:09 pm
Stevie
Other than to you and some crazies in the GOP house there is nothing to discuss. That’s not a “side” that’s a wasteful witchhunt.
Keep us informed about the congressional investigations will ya’.
USinUK
December 15th, 2011
1:10 pm
“No matter what moniker of the month he uses, “Ross” is accustomed to the Tucker style of blogging that he perfected – the slogan/sound bite/bumper-sticker technique.”
or the Jm drive-by poop-flinging …
throw something out there and see if it hits anyone …
Ross Perot
December 15th, 2011
1:10 pm
ScamVet, are you imp lying that I am a repub? I am A BOB, anybody but Obama. However, I do believe that this country with this form of government will capitulate in my lifetime with the crony capitalism going on. If Corzine skates, pull your money out of your 401k, because this will be the titanic hitting the iceburg.
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:11 pm
Is that a sand flea trying to bite me?
philosopher
December 15th, 2011
1:11 pm
Children- I’m just wondering if you consider lifting environmental regulations as a big requirement in solving the debt problem..?
Granny Godzilla
December 15th, 2011
1:11 pm
scott
were Laura Bush and the girls moochers when they traveled without the
President?
can moochers be …uh…how do I phrase this delicately….Republican?
Cause to my eyes that’s the only difference.
Do you see a difference I don’t see?
USinUK
December 15th, 2011
1:11 pm
“I am A BOB, anybody but Obama”
um … that makes you an ABO
honest_abe
December 15th, 2011
1:12 pm
scott – try coming up with one single original thought rather than regurgitating everything you hear from limbaugh & hannity. your ignorance is appalling. typical right wing nut jobs.
Stevie Ray
December 15th, 2011
1:13 pm
USNUK,
If insecurity didn’t exists amongst the idolizers of BO, why would same put so much credence in monthly numbers…FEDX benefits from factors which have nothing to do with BO and his don’t blame me policies…the market benefits from factors that have zero to do with BO…
The test will be at end of his first term, can he really run successfully on his record of adding more entitlements despite us being bankrupt by any measure trying to keep up current obligations not to mention future value of same. Where will unemployment be at end of his term? After 4 years in office do you suppose he will step up and take responsibility instead of blaming others…in business, if you blame others for your inability to effect change in leadership role, you get fired…
scott
December 15th, 2011
1:14 pm
Stevie Ray, I agree with you….the guy doesn’t take any responsibility for his ineptitude. I don’t, however, want him to get a 2nd term. He will destroy this country even more. You know and I know that he will just get a pass. The media will continue its practice of making the guy out to be the best thing to ever happen to this country. They will rewrite history to put all blame on Bush, Republicans, and those waskly, wittle Tea Partiers while ignoring that the guy had an opportunity to implement his Hope and Change but blew it badly. The guy had a SUPERMAJORITY and could have done whatever he wanted to for a good while and all he did was screw up the country even worse!!! Yet, all we hear about from the media is that the Republicans were obstructionists.
Ross Perot
December 15th, 2011
1:15 pm
No matter what moniker of the month he uses, “Ross” is accustomed to the Tucker style of blogging that he perfected – the slogan/sound bite/bumper-sticker technique.
At least it’s more entertaining than your tiresome stereotyping and name calling ScamVet. If you could get out of your wheel chair you’d be humping Odonors other leg, you know, the one Chrissie Matthews isn’t.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:16 pm
More poor people than ever
Way to go obummer
Donovan
December 15th, 2011
1:17 pm
Based on the vitriol I have read from all you liberals, the GOP candidates have you tied up in knots. How you people defend such a loser as president is beyond any form of comprehension.
Nevertheless, it seems quite plausible that your reaction is a false sense of satisfaction with each other that your electoral choice has been a success in his presidency.
Here’s a news bulletin…the American people are getting an earful from these GOP candidates about the failures of your choice and the American people have realized it for some time. Have you forgotten 2010?
Bark at the moon all you want. Spit out all the insults you want. Behave like spoiled elitists who have bad ideas. Hang together like a pack of nasty jackals.
No matter who runs against this clown you voted for this country will dispatch your Obama quicker than they did with Jimmy Carter.
Butch Cassidy
December 15th, 2011
1:17 pm
scott – “….It is about his moocher wife’s vacation and the unnecessary cost associated with it”
I agree with scott. Can’t we go back to the good old days when ONLY the President travelled on the publics dime and the 1st lady just walked to the designated meeting spot? You tell em’ scott!
Misty Fyed
December 15th, 2011
1:17 pm
Honest Abe. You were able to fit the words right wing not jobs limbaugh hannity and igorance in one sentence and you are criticizing someone else for lack of originality…
Priceless.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:18 pm
Ross.
. Thasssss funny
willie lynch
December 15th, 2011
1:18 pm
It’s sad that a guy like Newt is even in the race. He is a proven adulterer, liar, hypocrite…the list goes on. But aside from Newt, look at the Herman Cain experiment, Rick Perry, Donald Trump and Michelle Bachmann. These people were a machination of a populace that is obsessed with very little substance and all the grandiosity that one can muster.
If you take into account the importance placed on the “Royal Wedding”, the Kardashian wedding and the fact that a guy like T.I. can come out of prison for trying to buy illegal guns and silencers, then be sent back to jail for riding around L.A. in a limo smoking weed, popping ecstasy pills, and drinking codine syrup and not get one but two television shows say’s a lot about how we as a society see things.
The number one lesson in sales is the ABC’s, “always be closing”. The American population is the biggest consumer in the world and not just of material items and the marketing machine known as the U.S. has sold you a bill of goods.
There was once a time when a thin veneer covered the lie that character mattered. Now, not so much.
JT
December 15th, 2011
1:19 pm
@ scott
December 15th, 2011
1:09 pm
stands for decibals….I qasn’t arguing about Obama’s vacation at all BTW….It is about his moocher wife’s vacation and the unnecessary cost associated with it. Nothing more. If this was a Republican doing this, would you still feel ambivalent towards it?
STFU! Did you ever say anything when GW hauled that old hag Laura on vacation?
Welcome to the Occupation
December 15th, 2011
1:19 pm
So, I’m with Jm in this sense:
What do you have to say, Jay, about the Democrats’ latest cave on modest tax raises on the wealthy?
scott
December 15th, 2011
1:19 pm
Granny, What were Laura and the Bush girls doing? Were they going on vacation a couple days before the President or were they actually doing something worthwhile? I have no problem with Moochelle and her daughters going over to South Africa for a Good will trip. I had no problem when Hillary did it with Chelsea. What I have a problem with is going on vacation a couple days ahead of the President to the same place, costing the taxpayers a decent chunk of change, especially after the President himself issued a policy to the rest of the government to cut unnecessary spending. Why you cannot see the validity in this is absurd.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:20 pm
Throw the bums out. Liberals. RINO’s. Socialists.
The TPers can stay tho.
Peter
December 15th, 2011
1:20 pm
Well Newt got divorced twice already, and he found ” Religion ” ?
Wow how long ago ?
Where under the bed ? At Tiffany’s ?
In his pot of ribs ?
Ross Perot
December 15th, 2011
1:21 pm
“I am A BOB, anybody but Obama”
um … that makes you an ABO
Duly noted but still stands.
Ross Perot
December 15th, 2011
1:21 pm
“I am A BOB, anybody but Obama”
um … that makes you an ABO
Duly noted but still stands.
willie lynch
December 15th, 2011
1:21 pm
Does having a “Supermajority” suspend the need for bi-partisan governing?
Stevie Ray
December 15th, 2011
1:21 pm
GRANNY
Cronyism, insider trading and enhancing net worth all using taxpayer dollars is completely legal so hearings are meaningless. I am not GOP or DEM for the record try to make up my own mind on issue to issue basis…
Name calling is not a debate point Granny despite your continued use of same….signifies concession. Google BO and cronyism and see what you find…he’s no different than the rest…My goal is to keep trying to bring you out of sheeps clothing and take a realistic unbiased view on per issue basis.;….I try hard not to judge your mentality….don’t really know you and your opinion of me is none of my business..
scott
December 15th, 2011
1:21 pm
JT…you obviously have problems with reading comprehension because that is not at all what I am saying.
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:22 pm
Spit out all the insults you want. Behave like spoiled elitists who have bad ideas. Hang together like a pack of nasty jackals.
Spit insults?
Glass house, meet stone.
honest_abe
December 15th, 2011
1:22 pm
misty fyed – the truth hurts.
i listen to hannity just about every day. it’s my preferred source of comedy. and everything scott has said on this blog sounds exactly like him so. hmmm. i just put two things together. don’t kill the messenger. it’s not my fault the republicans have a bunch of clowns running for president.
Misty Fyed
December 15th, 2011
1:22 pm
I have no problem with the Presidents or the first ladies vacations, We chose to protect them because they need to be protected. My only problem is when personal friends and famly are considered official staff for the purpose of a free ride.
Peter
December 15th, 2011
1:22 pm
Dumb comment !
More poor people than ever
Way to go obummer
Seems we got here getting broke Via Bush and the GOP first…cause “Deficits Don’t matter ” to the GOP ! And starting wars without a way to pay for them is “Conservative “.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 15th, 2011
1:23 pm
Well, Newt might could be zana and sleazy and a few other words they call him, but at least he’s our zany and sleazy.
If Newt loses we all lose and Obama wins. If Newt wins we all win. I mean, he’ll use a bulldozer to push money toward the rich and we’ll have Trickle Down again and besides, you won’t even hardly notice when him and his pals bend you over and Sandusky you. And best of all, he’ll see that all them welfare kids are put to work instead of mooching off of our hard-earned tax money. I just hope the kids ain’t paid Minimum Wage so all the business owners will have cheap labor and we can have cheap stuff to buy.
Anyhow, nobody else pays any attention to how the people in Iowa vote. I bet by the time GA has its primary election old Newt will denounce the Catholic Church and declare hisself a Southren Baptist and he’ll get about 90% of the vote. Whether canadates cheat or act sleazy don’t matter to us True Southreners. It’s whether there’s a R after the name. We elected old Nathan, didn’t we? Any questions after that?
Have a good p.m. everybody.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:23 pm
If Obama the 1%er carrying water for the 1% really wanted to increase taxes on the wealthy, he’d increase the dividend tax rate, the capital gains rate, and eliminate loophole charities
He has you liberals completely snookered
AmVet
December 15th, 2011
1:24 pm
USinUK, didn’t you just love the depth at which the scholarly “Ross” plumbed middle east destabilization?
Blogging for Dummies may be a good Christmas gift this year!
Chapter One: Don’t bring up topics that you know absolutely nothing about! (Unless you are on conservative blogs!!)
Seriously, this second consecutive pathetic debacle of a GOP slate is not good news for America.
Sometimes I wonder if the next headline will read “Republican Party takes millions to throw 2012 election”.
Apparently the ONLY hope (and change!) we now have is that Obama, will in a second term, stop being a Republican-lite and actually start being a champion for the American middle class and the poor.
Sure. Right after Wiley Coyote finally catches the roadrunner and Dennis Miller starts making people laugh…
Peter
December 15th, 2011
1:25 pm
JM…… He has you liberals completely snookered…. Like Bush did the GOP ?
Misty Fyed
December 15th, 2011
1:25 pm
that sounds nice Abe….How many people line up to hear your opinions every day? I guess you have personal interviews with key politicians that give you insights into policy decisions also.
Disagree all you want but if you want to know about truth…insulting someone’s intelligence because you disagree with what they say is indicative of a certain condition.
honest_abe
December 15th, 2011
1:25 pm
final question and i’m out but why do repubs prefer retards?
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:26 pm
UAW is accusing Nissan of humans rights violations.
In Tennessee and Mississippi.
Ok. Insane unions.
Stevie Ray
December 15th, 2011
1:27 pm
SCOTT,
Check out Krauthammer (the wrath of the sheep will be upon me for even mentioning his name..) column entitled Running on Empty…://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-campaign-for-class-resentment/2011/12/08/gIQApYDagO_story.htmlers
He also has a new column with great fun poked a FIGNEWT…
Aquagirl
December 15th, 2011
1:27 pm
were Laura Bush and the girls moochers when they traveled without the President?
Lock those b!tches in the house. It’ll save money on burquas.
I see no need to punish the president’s family by confining them to the White House unless they are accompanied by him. Perhaps you aren’t accustomed to our ways, scott, but in this country we let women travel without husbands or male relatives. This obviously irritates you. Get over it.
honest_abe
December 15th, 2011
1:28 pm
who’s intelligence did i insult other than cain, bachmann and perry? let’s be real there really isn’t room for argument there. a lack of originality isn’t a sign of mental ineptitude it’s just annoying to read.
Mick
December 15th, 2011
1:28 pm
GOP whiners – what a crew! The nattering nabobs of negativity reborn. No one here is about to knight president obama. It just so happens that he far and away the most capable person right now. Newt is out of the question and romney is not half bad but as you guys said 8 years ago, why change horses midrace? Obama is no where as bad as you say he is and conversely no where as good as you think we think he is. Keep blaming everything under the sun on him if it makes you feel better, any president needs some very thick skin…
Misty Fyed
December 15th, 2011
1:29 pm
Watching the Republicans eat their own and lose their “positive message” just goes to remind me how much ego is involved in this. It’s time for a better class of politician.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:30 pm
Honest Abe
Jay doesn’t permit the term “retard”
Unless you’re a liberal
godless heathen
December 15th, 2011
1:30 pm
Good question abe, since you are one.
Stevie Ray
December 15th, 2011
1:30 pm
AMVET,
If you can’t get laughs out of Dennis Miller, perhaps you take yourself too seriously? He’s got some great stuff that is not politically motivated…
Ross Perot
December 15th, 2011
1:30 pm
Honest Abe. You were able to fit the words right wing not jobs limbaugh hannity and igorance in one sentence and you are criticizing someone else for lack of originality…
Priceless.
The reason we look at multiple media sources is because you would never find the Fast and Furious, Solyndra,MF Global and other scandals about the messiah on your chosen media outlets, i.e. entertainment weekly, rolling stone, star magazine…
godless heathen
December 15th, 2011
1:31 pm
Republican, that is.
Mick
December 15th, 2011
1:32 pm
jm
Have you lost your marbles? Your rants point towards some mental issues…
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:32 pm
(the wrath of the sheep will be upon me for even mentioning his name..)
Wrath
Derisive scorn
Toh-may-toh
Toh-mah-toh
Herman Cain's WingMan(Quagmire)
December 15th, 2011
1:34 pm
Scott – neal boortz intern –
Why are you so made at 1st lady, Mrs. Obama, did she do anything to you. Maybe you have a problem with Independent intelligent women. Like stated before, you have no game and so now you are made at all women taller than you. Our President and his wife took their kids on a vacation like every President has done before him. Unlike the last President, his daughters wasn’t drunk and getting kicked out of bars in Mexico. Where’s the outrage, the 1st Lady actually shops at Target. Spending all of your money………..Where were your tears when the $18B in cash was loaded on a plane and disappeared in Iraqi. Didn’t hear from you or the rest of the 5 foot nothing neocons aka grover norquist groupies
Son, no one can educate and debate you at the same time…………
Please, republicans, try and debate President Obama on foreign policy…….remember Bin Laden, oh, he was in a picture shaking dick cheney’s hand remember that, scottie…….Our Current President has a picture of Bin Laden, dead on the floor
willie lynch
December 15th, 2011
1:36 pm
I’m hearing the it again, so help me understand where did the term Messiah and Obama become linked?
godless heathen
December 15th, 2011
1:37 pm
Quag,
Why did Obama land his drone in Iran?
Paul
December 15th, 2011
1:37 pm
Scott
“Now for a follow up question or two. How much would you like the other people to pay”
I’m pretty good with the rates where they are. I can go along with a Huntsman-like proposal in total, also. But I’d really be happier with flattening out what we now have, but adding new tiers above $379,150. It strikes me as nutty we have these compressed bands, when there are a significant number of earners waaaay above the top tier. Doesn’t strike me as an ideally progressive tax schedule.
How much to cut back? I’d be pretty draconian. Ever notice how, on a local level, the authorities pull the old “if you don’t pass our tax increase we’ll close libraries, cut back on fire and police protection” routine. Panetta’s doing the same thing with Defense. It’s all about “we’ll have only this many planes, ships and front line troops.” It’s never “okay, we’ll cut these weapons systems and these headquarters units and….” I mean, it’s gone up by more than half in less than a decade and these guys are acting like a modest cutback is the end of the world.
Other stuff – ag subsidies, gone. Homeland Security – all the overlap in training centers, etc, gone. Any time you’re dealing with bureaucracies that large it really is a target-rich environment.
“Out of curiosity, what “program” says there are no pay increases for two years?”
That was the Republican proposal to help pay for extension of payroll tax cut. Applied to federal workers thru 2013.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:39 pm
Mick
Re UAW
See Detroit news and autoblog.com
That tells you how nuts the unions and their supporters are
“uaw president bob king came out swinging Wednesday accusing the Japanese automaker of unspecified human rights violations in it’s factories in Tennessee and Mississippi”
AmVet
December 15th, 2011
1:39 pm
abe, today’s Republicans are prototypical reactionaries.
reactionary -adjective, noun, plural -ar·ies.
1. of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
Thus, their never-ending rebirth of McCarthyism and their failed social policies right out of the 1950s.
Neo-cons are not agents for action, change or progress. They react.
Simply put, their modus operandi is that if non-Republicans are for soemthing, they react by being against it. And vice versa.
For example, look at their absurd stance on anthropogenic climate change. Virtually the entire civilized, educated, enlightened world endorses the science that underlies the theory. So, they are opposed. For them, it has NOTHING to do with the search for scientific truths or understandings at all. The end game is to oppose, obstruct, delay any and all change…
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:40 pm
Godless 1:30. I thought the same thing
Clearly honest Abe is insane though so not worth the effort
honest_abe
December 15th, 2011
1:40 pm
amvet – amen.
ragnar danneskjold
December 15th, 2011
1:43 pm
I would vote for Newt. I would vote for Mitt. I would vote for Ron. I would vote for Michelle. I would vote for Rick P, or Rick S. I would vote for Jon. I would vote for Hugo C. I would not vote for the incompetent community organizer now occupying the oval office.
Thulsa Doom
December 15th, 2011
1:43 pm
the chihuahua bites back. Way to go poo.
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:43 pm
Do you think that is our drone or something Iran built?
Lots of propaganda on this one.
honest_abe
December 15th, 2011
1:44 pm
government needs to stay out of our personal lives! unless we’re talkign about moral issues. – retards.
obama is all about class warfare! stop trying to raise taxes! – the poor guy in south georgia who actually thinks repubs are looking out for his best interest.
lower taxes and lower regulations will create a utopian society where everyone prospers! – george bush 2000 – 2008
Thulsa Doom
December 15th, 2011
1:44 pm
The food stamp president, more poor people than ever, greater income inequality gap than ever according to the liberals. Looks like Obama’s not doing so well with the poor and middle classes.
Ross Perot
December 15th, 2011
1:44 pm
Please, republicans, try and debate President Obama on foreign policy…….remember Bin Laden, oh, he was in a picture shaking dick cheney’s hand remember that, scottie…….Our Current President has a picture of Bin Laden, dead on the floor
If this was Obama’s greatest moment to you people, god help this country.
Hello, President Obama? Yes. This is colonel Kamchak, and our 5 years of intelligence has located OBama Bin Laden. What did he do? He brought down the twin towers. Would you like us to take him out? To dinner? No sir, to kill him. Um ok I guess, that would make me popular. O.K mr. President we will do it. Thanks colonel Kamchak, now can I get back to fund raising?
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaaaahhh
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:45 pm
” I would vote for Hugo C. I would not vote for the incompetent community organizer now occupying the oval office.”
Socialist.
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 15th, 2011
1:45 pm
Calista will put this insurrection down, alright. She’s worked hard to get
where she is, and she aims to remind everybody in her new Christmas
book, “Yes, Virginia, There is a Panty Clause.”
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:46 pm
Kam is in ross’s head.
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:46 pm
Uh, oh.
Looks like I’m occupying a space in thelma’s head.
Peadawg
December 15th, 2011
1:47 pm
” I would vote for Hugo C.”
Dumb f*k
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:47 pm
calista looks like a mannequin.
He will cheat on her too .
Granny Godzilla
December 15th, 2011
1:48 pm
Well, ok so the Newt bubble has burst.
Next bubble? Ron Paul?
Paul
December 15th, 2011
1:49 pm
scott
Government spending can be roughly divided into two areas from the view of the bureaucracy:
1. Resources that go to the people the program was established to help, and
2. “Nice things we do for ourselves” (from the perspective of the bureaucracy)
I’d take a real hard look at 2 while trying to minimize effects in 1 as much as possible.
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:49 pm
Our President is beating willard and crushing the newt in the polls doomy.
Four more years.
scott
December 15th, 2011
1:50 pm
honest abe….i don’t listen to Hannity or Rush. I am for Ron Paul and neither of them give him any airtime. You ever think that maybe, just maybe, I can see how what the obamas are doing is wrong? Beat it
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:52 pm
jm,
You surrendered to honest abe in record time.
Erwin's cat
December 15th, 2011
1:52 pm
Pea – is that really necessary? …It makes you look small
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:53 pm
scott,
Did you agree with Ron Paul when he voted no on the Iraq occupation?
getalife
December 15th, 2011
1:54 pm
cat,
Perhaps rag looks small voting for Hugo.
Pea is right.
Thulsa Doom
December 15th, 2011
1:54 pm
Gotta do better job than that poo.
Peadawg
December 15th, 2011
1:55 pm
“Pea – is that really necessary? …It makes you look small”
Like I told jm, I call ‘em as I say ‘em.
Herman Cain's WingMan(Quagmire)
December 15th, 2011
1:56 pm
godless heathen – because he was looking for opium for rush limbaugh….
Jm
December 15th, 2011
1:58 pm
Granny 1:48 could be. Wacky as that sounds
Foreign ? Policy
December 15th, 2011
1:58 pm
Ross Perot, Please see below (by Sheldon Richmond, on FFF website)
Excuse me? Progressives — who properly savaged George W. Bush for his autocratic presidency, civil-liberties flouting PATRIOT Act, undeclared war on Iraq, use of detention and torture at Guantanamo and elsewhere, and warrantless surveillance — are supposed to be happy with Barack Obama, who has essentially carried on most Bush policies, even kicking them up a few notches?
If we listen to Chait, there is nothing at all disappointing about Obama’s expansion of drone attacks in Pakistan and Somalia, with their routine “collateral damage” to innocents; his flagrant violation of the War Powers Resolution (not to mention the Constitution and his campaign promise) with his intervention in Libya; his intensification of the war in Afghanistan; his sanctions (an act of war) against Iran; his broken pledge to close Guantanamo; his support of indefinite detention without charge; his policy of assassinating even American citizens abroad without due process; his renewal of the PATRIOT Act; his placement of Marines in Australia with the words, “The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay”; his failed attempt to lift the UN ban on cluster bombs; or his invocation of state secrets to keep torture victims out of court.
Chait thinks Obama should get credit for “ending the war in Iraq” — but hold on. The December 31, 2011, withdrawal date is set in the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration. Obama tried — but failed — to persuade Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to let U.S. troops stay longer. As it is, they will simply be moved down the road to Kuwait, and a large contract mercenary force will likely be left behind at the humongous embassy in Baghdad.
For Chait and his ilk, these all must count as “foreign policy successes.”
And what about torture? Nothing upset Progressives more during the Bush years. Toward the end of the administration, the criminal policy was abandoned and was forsworn by Obama. Yet the detention center at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan has been called “worse than Guantanamo” by Daphne Eviatar, an attorney for Human Rights First. Adds John Glaser of Antiwar.com,
There are now 3,000 detainees in Bagram, up from 1,700 since June (!) and five times the amount there when Barack Obama took office. Many of them have not been charged, have seen no evidence against them and do not have the right to be represented by a lawyer, aren’t given fair trials, and the U.S. claims it is not even obligated to explain why these people are caged.
A U.S. special operations “black site” at Bagram features “sleep deprivation, holding detainees in cold cells, forced nudity, physical abuse, detaining individuals in isolation cells for longer than 30 days, and restricting the access of the International Committee of the Red Cross,” according to Jonathan Horowitz’s investigation for the Open Society Institute.
Finally, in a move that bodes ill for the future, Obama refuses to criminally or civilly investigate Bush administration officials for illegal torture of prisoners. He won’t even empanel a “truth commission” to bring the facts before the American people. Future administrations will thus have little to fear when they break the law.
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
1:59 pm
You ever think that maybe, just maybe, I can see how what the obamas are doing is wrong?
No.
Jm
December 15th, 2011
2:00 pm
Getalife
Surrender? This isn’t a battle silly
Erwin's cat
December 15th, 2011
2:00 pm
Pea – I used to read your posts because they were thoughtful, insightful, and humble…I guess I will have to adjust my scrolling…no harm or foul
Herman Cain's WingMan(Quagmire)
December 15th, 2011
2:00 pm
Ron Paul is the 1 and only Republican that makes sense when he speaks. No $10,000 bets or $500K accounts at Tiffany’s, or deer in headlights like Michele Bachmann(she is cute), or what about Sarah Palin. “I can see college park from norcross”
getalife
December 15th, 2011
2:00 pm
Ron Paul is fighting hard to win Iowa.
He has people like scott on the ground for their caucus.
The newt has none because he is lazy like fred.
Kamchak
December 15th, 2011
2:01 pm
Ooohh, quoted ilky goodness.