Comments on: About the Firestorm I Touched Off …

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:24:27 +0000

Palin is not qualified and Obama is…..come on were not idiots. He was elected for one reason and one only, he is half black. Tell me his qualifications …..if you can, what had he ever done before being elected president. After being elected all we have heard are lies and more lies, before that it was present, present, present.

Sarah palin connects with the people and this scares both republicans and democrats. If Palin was a liberal man she would be idolized.

Bernie you have lost my respect.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:14:09 +0000

As a matter of fact, it’s all I, I, I with BG. Hey! His initials are just the opposite of the new ‘great one’!! Why does BG like Bill O so much? They’re both narcissists, and so; why they give obama the benefit of the doubt-crap-hooey; you aren’t fooling anyone, you two! Moderation by design- in order to appear credible ain’t working. Tricky, but slimy move BG!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:09:55 +0000

You are SO correct!! Bernie used to be okay, until these new ‘stars’ took the limelight away from him. He is SO jealous of Glenn Beck that it’s hilarious. He hates his success, and so, slams him as a whacko conspiracy-theory proponent. Sad. Glenn is a wizard Bernie, and a super-star. Deal, loser. Can’t fricken stand ya anymore.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:03:18 +0000

I’ll bet you 5k that Glenn won’t be next, you ignoramus! You started the name-calling, so don’t even go there. I was just reading comments here after the article- for entertainment. I noticed that the only troll was John. Nothing to do with his life. I’m so sorry for you. A frothy-mouthed liberal is the very worst kind of whack-job. Liberalism certainly is a terrible brain disorder.

By: speedball

speedball — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:18:34 +0000

Paul, you truly are an idiot

By: Craig Moore

Craig Moore — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:49:53 +0000

CBS 60 Minutes Sunday January 10, 2010 – Anderson Cooper segment on the new book “GAME CHANGE” written by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and NY Magazine’s John Heilemann:

The headline for this book is Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Reid’s racial defamatory remarks about Obama made during the campaign. Reid admits he made a racial slur that Obama was a “light-skinned A/American with “no Negro dialect” basically stating Obama was a “good N….”.

All the black leaders including Al Not-so-sharp-ton all forgave him and said to Harry, “That’s OK, just get health-care thru Congress.” The hypocrisy of the left!! No Republican or any sane American would ever make such a crude despicable comment and would be laid to waste by the Sharpton machine if they made such a comment as this! At least they would lose their job or censured of the Senate!!

Last night on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper’s segment did not mention this part of the book at all. Guess what part of the book Anderson zeroed in on? Sarah Palin and her differences with the Republican campaign during the election along with Hilary initially turning down Obama for Sec/State. 2 non-issues. But a racial slur made by the highest ranking democrat in the Senate against the future President and all of black Americans went un-reported by 60 Minutes and Anderson Cooper!

Our great biased media hard at work! This one was so obvious it would make a great discussion with you and Bill O’Reilly!

A Fan from Phoenix.

By: Heather O'Connor

Heather O'Connor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:29:37 +0000

Not one who normally comments ( actually never before) to anyone, but I do admire your commentary. There are many commentators who try to be even and fair minded while making strong analysis ( Dennis Miller comes to mind), but somehow it seems they try so hard to be fair, they overdramatize a point that differs from the conventional view(from the right)so vehemently to prove their objectiveness. Unfortunately, it comes across pretentious even if they are sincere.

You seem to really hit the nail all the time. Your strength is making the alternative point of view reasonable enough for you to understand why one believes in it. Yes, there are times when you won’t give anyone a break for behaving or commenting in a way that is contemptible, but this is the exception that is credible if one recognizes your history. I agree with you about gay marriage but I believe you are the only one who understands and respects how someone might be against it ( as long as it was religious and not pure bigotry). Beautifully perfectly put. But that is the example.

Don’t stop fighting the good fight! Btw, I am in the adult business ( Chicago – 3 adult clubs )but am as conservative as you can get. Pro-life included. Obviously, I wouldn’t be welcomed in any Republican or conservative gathering or be taken seriously despite having success in a market that isnt as easy as one would think. However, I am proof that conservatives can appeal to a vast group (even one as distasteful as mine).

By: notleft

notleft — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:54:48 +0000

after oboma ruins everthing the right will have to fix everything again!!

By: AlsoInSF

AlsoInSF — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:01:51 +0000

I am totally with you! I have lived in this city for 15 years, coming to the last month as the job market and rent market are completely incompatible. I have read all of Bernard’s books precisely because the liberal nuts here have driven me to do so. They make me so crazy. I came here thinking I was a strong liberal myself, escaping from the stupid Republican midwest, only to find myself being discriminated against constantly for being from middle America and I found it almost impossible to get a job. If it were not for my lawyer brother supporting me as I went to school and bounced through a few jobs, I would have had to move away much sooner.
My first boss here was gay and she hated me for being from Nebraska so she fired me without cause and locked me out of that company for 10+ years (I’m still locked out). It was when she did that I first started looking into conservative viewpoints that were independent of religion. My parents are conservative, but I had never heard any conservative opinions or politics voiced from anyone that were not completely based in Biblical beliefs, my parents were fundamentalist Christians who taught me to believe in a 6-day creation theory, if you’re wondering why I couldn’t seriously consider the idea of being a Republican. I was still young and I thought all Republicans were nuts because they couldn’t separate religion from politics it seemed.
Anyway, I worked for many people, black, white, gay, AND straight, who had problems with me being from Nebraska and they kept giving me shit about it and forced the lowest rung jobs on me while less educated Californians with less experience climbed above me quickly (and this was back when I supported democrats very strongly, I supported gay marriage, and I even supported reparations for slavery (I am white so this would have me paying, not receiving). I was pro-choice but only on behalf of everyone else since I never planned to get pregnant but I figured if I ever accidentally did I’d likely NOT abort, even if the child had problems. I’m just not the type of person who could do something like that in good conscience. I am a woman, but I don’t hate Palin for her views on abortion. I was surprised she wouldn’t allow it even in cases of rape (that’s a little extreme for me, even now) but I still see it as a 9-month sentence for a mother to hold out before she could give the kid up for adoption, and I don’t believe anyone is a genetically programmed bad seed so again it really seems like too much fuss was kicked up over that controversy as well. It’s really not such a big deal for a woman to endure a 9-month term if she just wants to give the kid up, and if I was still religious and believed what I was raised to believe, I would be strongly against abortion in ALL cases because I was taught that our souls are already there at conception; God has a plan for every soul, and therefore destroying a soul is destroying God’s plan for someone’s life. I don’t believe that anymore, but I was completely against abortion when I was young and I believed that. I can see how anyone who considers themselves religious, if they honestly believe in God, then of course they would have issues with abortion being legal.
I don’t particularly support Palin on all of her political views or goals either, but Bernard; good for you for standing up for her! So many people have jumped on the trash Palin train and I’ve heard a lot of stupid things out the mouths of liberals (I hear stupid things from them on a daily basis). Palin has yet to stick her foot in her mouth as often as our own state’s representatives. Despite their fancy Ivy League educations, I’ve heard a lot of dumb liberal politicians say a lot of dumb things, and especially propose a lot of dumb ideas that everyone follows like a herd of sheep just because of their fancy educations.
I worked during my college years like a lot of middle class Americans in order to pay for my education, which was also nothing fancy (what can an 18-year-old afford for themselves?) It also took me longer to graduate and I could only go to a school that would not saddle me with a lifetime of debt. My brilliant brother went to law school on some scholarships and then he let me move in so I would only have to pay for school and not rent. I’ve worked for so many spoiled rich-kid Ivy League grads who went to expensive college prep pre-schools that their parents paid for (I kid not). Many of them were legacies who went to the same Ivy League as their parents did. Then they marched straight into management positions at the top of Fortune 500s and they never worked an entry level job in their life. What do they know how to do? They know how to proudly discriminate against working-class Americans from the midwest like me, and that’s all they know how to do, but it’s all they need to know because they do it so well, and it clearly works for them.

By: Rex J. Ellis

Rex J. Ellis — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:07:43 +0000

Beware of ignoring similarities!