Jeffin90019's Comments (52)

“It's been almost a year and hundreds of billions of dollars later and people are still wanting to pin this mess on war criminal George Bush. The reality seems to be that Obama's focus wasn't on the issues that really matter to people everyday -- jobs, homes, and health care. Instead, his party offers a health care insurance extortion scheme and industry profit protection plan instead of real reform. He passes on billions to banks instead of helping people keep their homes and jobs. He piles more bodies onto the Bush/Obama wars instead of having the courage to say game over. Obama is making terrible decisions. I know I won't be supporting him in 2012. Game over.”

“I was a big admirer of Senator McCain. Then came 2008, the year of the Angry Old Man Tour and Sarah Palin. I'm sorry, John, you've lost credibility and it's time to go. With love and respect from Phoenix, Arizona.”

“Sorry, but I think you're just plain wrong.”

“Marriage should be sacred. That's why there should be a federal law that outlaws divorce, especially when minor children are involved. Let's stop the disgraceful 'blended family' marry-go-round and keep families together. From now on, 'until do you part' will have the power of the law behind it. No more no fault divorces. No more easy remarriages.

As long as we're retreating to 'traditional' defintions, let go back using the old word for children born out of unwed parents. After all, these children born on the wrong side of marriage shouldn't have the same rights and benefits of traditionally married children. They are lesser children by virtue of how they were conceived.

Next we outlaw all 'non-traditional' methods of contraception. No more test tube babies, no more surrogates. If you can't have a baby on your own, then your God didn't mean for you to have one.

Does it seem unfair to punish people whose marriages may not have worked out, or to punish children for the situation of their conception and birth or deny people the right to be parents. Welcome to the world that gay people live in every day.”

“Why don't you introduce legislation to put real curbs on lobbying. Include provisions that limits campaign contributions to individuals (meaning the voters) and forbibs corporations from donating money to political campaigns and politicians? Until the cash spigot is turned off, lobbyists and their clients will own America.”

“I'm with Ariana on this. Wouldn't it be wonderful for the world if someone in a position of high visibility stood up against these ruinous, pointless wars in two countries? Afghanistan is just getting worse because our military leaders seem feckless and clueless. It doesn't help that no one can describe what a "win" will look like, so we keep fighting, and keep making new enemies.

The Iraqis WANTS us to leave, and we've become like The Man Who Came to Dinner - dreadful, destructive guests who linger endlessly. Obama seems to lack the testicular fortitude to end the Bush Wars, so these wars are now the Bush/Obama/Fill in the name of the next president Wars.

Has everyone forgotten that 9/11 was an attack against America for our interference in the Middle East. Um, how do these wars help with that?”

“And yet the very same people of Arizona elected these politicians to represent them.”

“Progressives are all about ideas. Republicans are all about discipline. Guess which party actually manages to get things done?”

“Which part are you disagreeing with? It sound true to me. All ideas, no organization. The left will have no one to blame if the GOP takes Congress in 2010 and the White House in 2012.”

“You nailed it right on the head. The Democratic Party seems unable to govern. They're all empathy and no action, whereas the GOP is all about action, even though they couldn't care less about people.

Even under the lauded Bill Clinton, things only got moving when he lost Congress and had to horse-trade with the GOP to get anything passed. And then Bill Clinton implemented three of the most damaging pieces of legisliation in American history: DOMA, DADT and the financial service modernization act that nearly brought the world economy to extinction. Nice work, Bill.”

“President Carter is doing his best to address the gas crisis, and he's hopeful that he can negotiate the release of the American hostages being held in Iran. Meanwhile, he's better than the alternative.”

“The media is right to yawn and ignore. Anything else just gives more fuel for his power trip. Would that his trip take him to hell where he belongs. The simple answer to confronting the unhinged right and the radical left is the return of the boradcasting "fairness doctrine" that compels news outlets to air a fair balance of opinions. But Fox and MSNBC would move heaven and earth to prevent such a thing from happening.”

“So you're saying we keep these people in prison forever or until they die? You're saying that they don't deserve "human rights" even though they've been charged with no crime and no trials have been held? Dick Cheney, is that you? Gitmo is just another example of the brutality and lawlessness of the Bush/Cheney reign of terror. And Obama? He's part of it now. Every day our new president proves himself to be weak and spineless.”

“There will always be the lunatic fringe that wants and needs to feel someone being ground beneath the heels of injustice. It's especially important that the African American community that has been traditionally reluctant to embrace the civil rights of gays and lesbians now stands behind the idea that rights cannot be selectively distributed based on a religious litmus test. Bravo to Simmons and Patterson.”

“I don't agree with that at all. Sorry. But stereotypes become stereotypes because they are often true. There ARE swishy gay men. There ARE butch lesbian. There ARE lazy blacks. There ARE Italian mobsters. There ARE greedy jews. It's not universally true, of course. But it's true often enough to reinforce the assumptions that people draw from the world around them. Yes, the jewish community will bear the brunt of the Madoff scandal. But the Madoffs of the world don't grow in a vacuum. They are carefully taught.”

“God bless you, Bob. Fight the good fight for the good of the people!”

“Texas, huh? The state that gave made a governor of an incomptent, failed businessman named George Bush, who unseated a popular and competent governor. And then as governor executed more people than any other governor in the history of the United States. And then he became President George Bush. Don't need to get started on that. And it was the Democratic machine that was the problem in Texas. Right.”

“May I please ask to which "god" you are referring? Do you propose that the United States become a full recognized Christian theocracy? What about those who does follow the preaching of Christ? Do they also get seperate rights? Shall we legislate all of Leviticus? God is never mocked by love. God is when people divorce with 'no fault.' God is mocked by endlessly blended families created by people who marry and divorce at will. God is mocked when straight celebrities get married in Vegas while drunk and divored when they are sober. God is mocked when a 40-year husband leaves his wife for a 20-year old. People who use god to justify their cowardice and bigotry mock god. You mock god.”

“Democrats who see an assured OBama victory need to take a long deep breath and remember that one should never underestimate the chicanery that is possible and probable within a desperate Republican Party. Obama hasn't won yet, and his competitor - Senator Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn - and his pit bull aren't giving up. How about some Republican operatives disrupting polling places with some random "violence" that makes people flee the polls? If they can disrupt voting in a few key districts, it would be enough to throw a state and the election in McCain's column. The dreadful tenor of Senator Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn's campain and the ugly rhetoric from his ethics-challenged running mater should never, ever be under estimated.”

“He made himself at home in her Alaska office, with a work table and his own phones, to pursue his personal vendetta against a family member. He will have all of the authority and power she chooses to delegate to him or, as is noted in the Branchflower Report, will turn a blind eye to his activities.”

“Whipping up angry mobs might make for good theater, but it doesn't win over any moderates or independents who look at the shameful, shameless campaign of McCain and shrink back in horror. In other words, the anger and rage is only preaching to the choir, while it turns off the rest of America. Heck of a job, Mac!”

“The press set a dangerous precendent by accepting the idea of a"candidate" who did not have to speak to the media. By covering Sarah Palin and reporting on her, the media gave its seal of approval that presidential campaigns can now be waged in utter secrecy.

The press stepped aside and allowed the idea of an open and transparent goverment to be trampled by a pair of high heels. The media's job should have been to impose a complete media blackout on Palin. If the McCain campaign is too cowardly to put their "candidate" in front of a room full of reporters with unvetted questions, then the media should have found the fortitude to insist on Democracy. If McCain and Palin are elected, the media will have no one to thank but themselves when they are cut out of the information loop completely. Sarah can put her $35,000 tanning bed in what used to be the press room.

Future presidents will conduct their campaigns like product marketing for consumer products: package it nicely and sell the story. It all could have been different, had the media simply opted not to be conned again, as it was connect by Bush. The damage that Bush has done to America, her place in the world, her traditions, and her honor will reverberate for generations to come. And now the media stands back, makes a few grumbling noises, and treats Sarah Palin like a legitimate candidate. Heckuva job, mainstream media!”

“Even his much-hyped "performance" during the Viet Name "police action" reveals an essential truth about John McCain: He crashed five planes and was captured by the enemy. Simply put, he wasn't very good at his job. Millions of soldiers have flown millions of missions without crashing planes or being taken captive. Maybe McCain is simply a reckless egomaniac who was trying to prove his worth to his father. Is any of this sounding familair?”

“For the love of all that is merciful, let Hillary rest already. She lost. America said no thank you. Which part of that lingers in the mind of these Hillary dead-enders?”

“I've said variations on those same sentimens since she gave her pageant - I mean "acceptance" - speech: This woman is an attractive distraction - like those electronic billboards that distract you with constantly changing full color images when you really should be paying attention. Even worse, Sarah Palin is the band that played on the deck of the Titanic.

"My, isn't that music pretty?"

"Say, did you happen to notice that we're sinking?"

"No."

"Good. Play on, boys."”