Today’s Forum for Nov. 25/26

Published 2:00 pm Friday, November 24, 2023

“Has anyone ever done a soap box derby on Crawford by Harmon Field? Seems like the perfect spot for it.”

“To the reader that called in with a comment about Jimmy Carter being a little bit better than the recent presidents, have a little respect, the man is burying his wife this week. Besides that, he was the most moral president that I can remember and I’m 73 years old.”

“Jimmy Carter could have been a much better president but he was up against the same thing Biden is: Republicans. The only thing they can agree on is disagreeing. Jimmy is a special person, a great humanitarian, I would vote for him today at 99, before I would vote for Donald Trump.”

“We need a president that is ‘mean,’ not this weak old man that we have now.”

“Trump is by far the lesser of the two evils.”

“In response to President Biden’s speech that he wants to include aid to Ukraine, absolutely not. This is not about Ukraine but the atrocities leveled at the Israeli people. … Let your congressman know this is not acceptable.”

“Well, they’re saying in the papers and on the (TV) that inflation is easing up. I don’t know where they shop at but it’s not in Dalton.”

“24-hour ‘news’ realized there was more money in inflaming than informing and I’m not sure our country will survive it.”

“Some day the people calling in to the Forum to complain about Dalton liberals are going to have to reckon with the fact that those couple dozen people can’t possibly be the source of their troubles and will have to take a good, hard look in the mirror. I’m not holding my breath though.”

“‘Fixed income’? I don’t know how things were when you were working but I can’t just go to my boss every time I want more money and get a raise. The idea that seniors uniquely have to live within their means is self-serving propaganda to justify government handouts, pushing the responsibility of people who should have planned better onto the backs of the working class.”

“I feel safer with President Biden at the wheel than I did with the former guy. Biden has repeatedly shown that he cares about others. The former guy has only ever been interested in himself.”

“We’re against MAGA because America was already great.”

“MAGA is a slogan for a criminal that just happens to be running for office, that’s what we are against. Not making America great. By the way, if you think America is only great when your corrupt political power is in charge, that’s the problem.”

“Sean Hannity has said ‘I don’t claim to be a journalist,’ and (a federal judge and Fox News’ lawyers said of) Tucker Carlson that (‘any reasonable viewer ‘arrive(s) with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement(s) he makes.’ Fox paid almost a billion dollars for broadcasting lies about a voting machine company, and a two billion dollar lawsuit by another company is pending, yet I have observed in almost every business’ waiting room in Dalton, waiting customers are sitting on the edge of their seats watching a TV almost invariably tuned to Fox ‘Alternative Facts’ News.”

“I’m so sick of people in the Forum criticizing President Biden. They talk about how bad things are. We have the best economy in the world. Workers are being paid more, jobs are coming back to the U.S., Biden has gotten more bipartisan bills passed than Obama and Clinton. Gas is under $3 a gallon … several other things … groceries are slowly coming down … Biden has been the one to help Israel and trying to get the hostages out. Biden and Blinken have spent a lot of time over there. Trump wants to be an autocrat. He is telling us what he wants to do and it’s not good. … Don’t vote for this man, please.”