Andrew Jackson Democrats: Recent Comments

Comment on Obama Spending $$$ in North Carolina

Howard — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:28:06 GMT

OBAMA = BETRAYAL
Obama supporters are foolish to think that he will never betray them.
Obama was a close friend of Pastor Wright for TWENTY YEARS.
Obama threw Wright under the bus for personal ambition.
McCain would not betray his country even after 5 years of torture.
You can put lipstick on a traitor, but he's still a traitor.

Comment on Y'all Weekly, July 7, 2008

Jean — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:01:43 GMT

More on the senate races here: http://acropolisreview.com/2008/06/2008-democratic-senate-candidate-races.html

Comment on Dems Even, GOP Favoring McCrory

Tina — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:33 GMT

It's great that both candidates have endorsed the strongest candidate for the Democratic nomination. If Obama wins the nomination, either one will have a better chance with fundraising and earning of votes. Good summary of reasons to support that effort here. http://acropolisreview.com/2008/04/top-reasons-to-give-barack-obama-your.html
Feel free to share widely with friends and bloggers across North Carolina.

Comment on Weekend Political Fix

Tapart News Editor — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:14:14 GMT

Buckley once wrote about workers needing to take jobs instead of taking government support. I wrote to him and said I never met a person who did not want to work. He wrote back and thanked me for this perception.
Government steps in when the free enterprize system fails its social contract with the people. Today we have people like Gates talking about keeping government out of business but Gates is now calling Congress to pass laws to bring in high tech workers after more than a million workers have lost their jobs in the computer industry.
See more at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ and we are also exploring philosophy and religion with "work" and "labor" as stepchildren of these two disciplines at http://www.therationale.com

Comment on Report on Lt. Governor Debate

John Burns — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:41:24 GMT

Thanks for the report on the debate. On your discussion of Dellinger - I think a full report would include Hampton's response to Smathers' criticism. First, the debate was poorly moderated, with Dalton and Dellinger at various times denied the opportunity for rebuttal, yet the debate ran almost an hour longer than scheduled.

But Dellinger did have a comeback - he defended the laudable goals of the mental health reform: keeping people close to home instead of institutionalizing them. Execution has been less than successful, obviously, but Dellinger defended the goals of the plan and said he was in fact involved in that.

He stood up and accepted it.

Now, as for him being too young - the AFL-CIO disagrees. They just endorsed him in the primary.

I think he'll be fine. COme hear him on March 18th when he announces his government reform plan.

A fresh face with new ideas is what we need in Raleigh.

Keep writing on this race - it's important and to little covered.

Thanks.

-JB

Comment on Clinton Up Big in Ohio Poll

Sam Osborne — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:22:57 GMT

The dog eat Clinton's experience?

The nationwide campaigns of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton are respectively the largest, most complex, resource consuming, people motivating, and open-ended efforts over which either one of them has ever before presided. Obama’s has been an inspirational model of good governance; Clinton’s is a fractious mess. How come her highly touted experience did not make a difference from day one?

Comment on Miller to Face Webster

Chuck — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:49:49 GMT

Go Hugh!

Comment on Clinton Up Big in Ohio Poll

Mary R. Drabik — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:13:55 GMT

I did not miss the imagery of Barack Obama and John McCain shaking hands on the senate floor on Tuesday with all those other male senators standing around. I hope the rest of the women in this country didn't miss it either!

Comment on Federal Failure and Broadband Development

Mary Evslin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:30:06 GMT

As Chair of the Vermont Telecommunicaitons Authority, I am pleased to add Vermont to your list of states working hard on bring high speed Internet access and mobile phone coverage to its residents. The VTA was authorized by Vermont's legislature last June. Our first activity is accurate mapping of the state's coverage. This is an expensive and time consuming activity and one that traditional carriers are not too interested in helping with. Secondly we will do all we can to encourage incumbents to build out further than they had planned and finally we have been gives authority to issue $40 million in revenue bonds to infrastructure where needed.

Comment on Ed Ridpath Canvassing Event

Ed Ridpath — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:31:56 GMT

Thanks for posting this - Jeanne will also be hosting a "lick & stick" this Groundhog Day as an alternative to door knocking for campaign volunteers. Stop by Campaign HQ 800 Oldwyck Dr, Fuquay Varina, this Saturday, Feb 2nd at 10 AM - then take your pick of Licking and Sticking mailers with Jeanne or Knocking on doors with Ed.

A reminder that we will also be having our monthly Staff/Volunteer meeting at 8:30 AM this Saturday - on the agenda is planning our March 25th fundraiser at Lee Hansley Art Gallery.

Thanks and see you on Saturday!