1. Thanks for having this here and letting those of us who enjoyed poking at you with a stick now then, do so.

bob at 8:26AM on Sep 30th 2008

2. Thanks Young Turks. And thanks also to Bob, Bobby, Dave, Dave S, Captain Negative, Dedmanrisn, Bob Johnson, Sarah, Longwalker, Cliff Kuplen and of course Botts. Oh, I almost forgot. Thank you to Okane. May God bless you all. OBAMA 08!

randy at 1:32PM on Sep 30th 2008

3. Too bad you didn't have time for the article...

"700 billion reasons why neocons aren't 'free-market capitalists'!"

not-pboyfloyd at 1:41PM on Sep 30th 2008

4. Adios to the ones who kept it real on both sides. This was the only place to put the print to the paper, now AOL must have gotten too many complaints but this is typical of their business model...if it works, FUBAR it. Peace, Ded.

Dedmanrisn at 11:47PM on Sep 30th 2008

5. That was gracious of you Randy.

As much as I disliked the content of this blog it comes as a shock that it's over with. Doesn't make a lot of sense that we've slugged it out for the past yr. to have it erased coming into the homestretch of the election. As usual, decisions are made that none of us have a true voice in.

As antagonisitc as it was at times, I wish all of you guys the best in the future. Special thanks to some that "had my back" when I put my foot in my mouth. You know who you are.

Best of luck to everyone, perhaps we'll run into each other on some other blog.

respectfully,, Bobby.......

Bobby at 8:44AM on Oct 1st 2008

6. I mostly disagreed with this blog, but do I appreciate that the comments were read, and I do not understand the decision to end it as the election approaches.

Can anyone explain this coming to an end? Contract run out at this time and no renewal offer? Something like that? Well, I should not speculate. I am just really curious.

J at 5:48AM on Oct 3rd 2008

7. still able to post?

Dedmanrisn at 5:59PM on Oct 14th 2008

8. Open for business! C'mon back!

Dedmanrisn at 6:00PM on Oct 14th 2008

9. Yeah it looks like these things still work.

I see that the "I hate Baby Jesus" club is still racking 'em up over at DD's abandoned blog.

bob at 9:23PM on Oct 17th 2008

10. Hey bob! Yeah, the arguments there get as stupid as they did here. I still cannot get over the media's covering for Obama. Palin's email gets hacked, but no one can find any significant thing Obama wrote prior to his first book, which incidentally, coincided with a pause in the prolific writing of Ayers. There is no record of Obama's thesis, any articles for the Harvard Law Review, activities with ACORN, his state senate career, yet every liberal claims Palin's an idiot.

If the media can cover long enough, I don't think McCain stands a chance, but if he loses, I hope the people who voted for him remember that in the depression that's on the way. I won't be pretty either. Take care, Ded.

Dedmanrisn at 4:18PM on Oct 18th 2008

11. Hiya Ded,

Yeah I think McCain is pretty much done. His chances were never good. I'm not sure any Republican candidate was going to have much of a chance this time around. So might as well let McCain have his shot at it and then move on next time around.

Obama was the perfect choice. Black - but only in terms of skin color, so he's not scary black like the folks that live in the parts of town the white-guilt wine and cheesers won't travel to after dark (Biden hit the nail right on the head). Immune to criticism due to a permanently in-play race card. MSM falling all over themselves to cover his ass.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when he doesn't round up whitey and ship him off to concentration camps. Or when he's unable to fix healthcare, redistribute wealth, save social security, created hundreds of thousands of jobs through WPA-like work programs, or get us out of Iraq on a timely basis. I'm sure the apologists have already formulated the "it's worse than we thought - Bush really, REALLY screwed things up BAAAAAD!" spin campaigns. The HAVE to know nothing is really going to change significantly.

I'd really just like to see them admit that, were he not perceived as "black", he wouldn't have even been the candidate. His background doesn't even come close to qualifying him for the position.

I think one of the funniest things I've heard lately was one pundit suggesting that "when" Obama wins, Bush and Cheney should resign on November 5th and leave office immediately so that the healing can begin.

Obama doesn't scare me - I honestly don't think all that much is going to change. It's the naivete of the folks who've bought into him hook, line and sinker that I find terrifying.

bob at 6:05PM on Oct 18th 2008

12. I think one of the funniest things I've heard lately was one pundit suggesting that "when" Obama wins, Bush and Cheney should resign on November 5th and leave office immediately so that the healing can
begin.

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For the Pelosi haters out there this may be a brilliant option. If that were to take place then Nancy Pelosi would become President. At that point she would have to resign her seat in Congress which she will presumably win again on Nov. 4th. This wouldn't change the presumable Democratic majority in Congress, but it would bring some CHANGE to the position of Speaker. Of course, we may get someone
worse in there. Can you imagine Barney Frank as "Speaker" of the House?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

torquemada at 1:09AM on Oct 24th 2008

13. Bob: You make some very good points, but the polls are + or - about 2 points on what I would call the "reliable" polls, but this election is pushed by the economy and by a hatred of Bush that borders on the paranoid schitzophrenic. It's almost as though no one remembers 9-11, the Clinton recession Bush inherited or anything else.

The claim that Bush spent like a drunken sailor ignores the fact that the Democrats were in the same titty bar getting their lap dances too and were just as guilty. Iraq is looking more and more like a success, but military spending is going to take a 25% hit and Barney Frank almost came out and said no money for an ABM defense, high tech weapons, and of course a cut in manpower which means the combat infantryman.

These could be a hard four years and the SCOTUS will be packed with liberals with 3 or 4 appointments to be made by Obama should he win. There are cracks in Obama's past just coming out now along with massive documented voter fraud in Ohio, Missouri and other states. Russia arming Venezuela, Cuba (again) all falls in with Obama's world views so we cannot project power if he will not use it.

All in all, I think the s*it has hit the fan and with willing accomplices in the media, you can look at Germany circa 1925-1927 and see that this country could very easily go down the wrong road. After all, the Germans were very cultured people weren't they? It took 20 million lives to restore that culture, and it can happen here as well.
Take care, hope to talk with you before the elections. Ded

Dedmanrisn at 3:04PM on Oct 29th 2008

14. Good points, Ded.

With the economy being the overbearing issue right now and most folks not even being about to wrap their heads around it, all the more reason for them to turn to someone who speaks calmly and assuredly and sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

If you actually listen to Obama expound on it, you can readily see he doesn't have a clue.

I saw a portion of a speech the other day where he suggested that the reason companies move to China is that they have a more modern infrastructure. And that in order to keep business here, we need to update ours accordingly. Therefore, he'll be calling for a massive upgrade (no doubt at massive taxpayer expense) of our nation's infrastructure.

That, of course, was met by resounding cheers from whatever clueless group he was in front of on that particular day.

If we lived in a country where the president actually did wield as much unchecked power as the lefties claim Bush does, I might be a bit more concerned. Obviously, that's not the case, so I'm not. And as a Democrat, he's beholden to so many disparate special interest groups that any bold, reckless moves on his part are going to be practically impossible.

A good number of the people attracted to Obama don't really care what his stance is on this or that issue. Many of them don't even know (witness the recent Howard Stern Show foray into Harlem) what they are. All they know is that either he a) sort of looks like them, b) has a resume similar to theirs (lots of education, little practical experience) or c) makes them feel good.

The ones who should know better are letting him seduce them with his purported "intelligence". They can't explain his positions any better than he can, so they fall back on the IQ argument. I get an interesting reaction (essentially a change of subject) when I suggest to the ones I know that his background and level of intelligence closely resembles that of another president of not-so-distant memory - Richard Nixon.

I've pretty much come to accept that we're going to be stuck with him for at least 4 years - most likely 8 as long as he doesn't have a major screw up. I've tried to come up with positives in that. About the only thing I can come up with is that his lack of experience is likely to make him ineffective at implementing much in the way of "change". So the chances of many of his stated policy positions coming to fruition are slim to none. That, and a hope that when things really don't change for the better, those who fell for his smooth demeanor and superficial presidential aura won't get fooled again the next time around.

bob at 7:32PM on Oct 29th 2008