President Bush now says he regrets saying things like “Bring ’em on” and “Dead or alive.”  He says Laura told him he shoud watch his words carefully.  It’s endearing, but would have been more so if had been this candid at the time.

“I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said,” Bush told CNN’s Heidi Collins when asked to reflect on his regrets over his two terms as president. “Like ‘dead or alive’ and ‘bring ‘em on.’ My wife reminded me that, hey, as president of the United States, be careful what you say.”

At the AW Beattie Career Center in Allison Park, PA, a teacher’s aide said Obama would be shot, our flag will be changed to the KFC flag, and the National Anthem would be changed to “Movin’ On Up.”  A 16-year-old bi-racial student was deeply disturbed by the comments and reported them to her parents, who complained to the school.  The aide is being suspended pending further investigation.

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun now says he regrets linking Obama to Hitler.

“I regret putting it that way,” Broun told WGAC radio in Augusta. “I apologize to anyone who has taken offense at that.”

Broun acknowledged that he called Obama a Marxist at a Rotary Club meeting in Augusta last week. In an Associated Press interview Monday night, he went further, charging that an Obama campaign proposal for a civilian national security reserve corps would be like the security forces of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately, Broun’s original comments are still being defended by the likes of Clarke County Republican Chairman James Box.

“President-elect Obama has a background - and some of his statements he’s made - that lead many of us to believe that he has very socialist orientations,” Box, 77, said, adding that the national press has not examined the incoming president vigorously enough.

“I wouldn’t say he’s going to be a Hitler, but what Paul Broun says is that he has a potential for being a Hitler.”

• Alan pays tribute to America’s veterans.

• Spiritual guru Deepak Chopra responds to the election of President-elect Barack Obama.

• Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge explains why she’s fighting for equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians.

• Comedian Jeff Dunham, whose A Very Special Christmas Special premieres this Sunday on Comedy Central, shares his hilarious take on the insanity of the world today.

Comedian Jeff Dunham, whose performance with “Ahmed the Dead Terrorist” is the 9th most-viewed YouTube clip of all time, joins me on on radio tonight.

Today we honor those who have served our country, while recognizing that one of the things our veterans have fought for is the right to dissent.

Nov. 10, 2008: Anessah Tookes places American flags on the graves of military veterans in Tahoma Cemetery in Yakima, Wash.

Benjamin Lewis a former Marine Corps mortarman, Iraq veteran, IRR recall resister, peace activist and Brandon Neely, a former U.S. Army Military police officer, Iraq veteran, IRR recall refuser wrote an open letter calling for an end to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On this day, Veteran’s Day, we would like to express to the American public why we, veterans of the Global War on Terror, have chosen to refuse orders to reactivate into military service. We are direct witnesses to the horrors of this war, having experienced its atrocities at their source, and we have decided that we can no longer carry out these illegal and immoral policies.

We believe that veterans and active-duty GIs are in a key position to stop illegal and unjust war, and we are inspired by the resistance of troops who stood against the war in Vietnam. One of the preeminent reasons for the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was increasing dissent among the active-duty troops stationed abroad and at home. By the end of the war, there were entire units refusing to participate in combat, many going as far as outright mutiny.

[...]

…we turn to organizations like Courage to Resist, Iraq Veterans Against the War and many other large-scale and grassroots organizations to solicit change in a largely unrepresentative democracy, and to allow the voices of the people to ring through the halls of the Capital.

Get ready for more of Godwin’s law.  Republican (what else?) Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia is concerned that Obama might create a Marxist dictatorship with a Gestapo-like security force.

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

Broun is referring to a July speech where Barack Obama discussed public service, saying, “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

What Obama was actually referring to was a civilian reserve corp that could handle reconstruction of infrastructure, something President Bush has supported as well, as he added, “It also depends on the teacher in East L.A., or the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school working in New Orleans, the Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, the Foreign Service officer in Indonesia.”

But that didn’t stop Broun for comparing Obama to Hitler while saying he was not comparing Obama to Hitler.

“We can’t be lulled into complacency,” Broun said. “You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential of going down that road.

Mayor-elect Stu Rasmussen of Silverton, Oregon shares his unique story with me on radio tonight.

From: Jack
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:52 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Please

Allan: Since you seem to be head over heels in love with Osamba and his terrorist friends. Marry him and take your honeymoon in Afganhistan in his family cave.
Also since “redistribution of wealth” is soooooooo great be a man and show America by writing checks from YOUR pocket for 5000 bucks a pc to ever American worker. Oh yeah all the illegals also YOU pay their healthcare THEN I might think about Osamba.

I fully expect you didnt have the guts to read this.
You need Professinal help

From: Vicki
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 6:41 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Proud to be an American

Remember how America used to be? Pride, well when I listen to you I wonder what is going to happen to Us???

You and your left Comrades do not want to drill here because Madame Pellosi says she is saving the planet. Well, what planet is the oil that we purchase now, what planet is that from???

It’s OK for them to drill and take our money, you must be on the side of the arabs, oil price is lower now but they will sock it to us again real soon!!! You are an embarrassement. I don’t know how Sean puts up with you or else it is all show business. I am so angry and upset, I am 64 years young and giving up. You and the left and Satan is winning.

From: Clyde
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:06 PM
To: Alan
Subject: your and idoit

From: NL
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:29 PM
To: Alan
Subject: (no subject)

Mr. Colmes, How in hell does an idiot like you get kept on the air?

From: Alan
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:32 PM
To: NL
Subject: RE: (no subject)

Inertia.

From: lee
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:35 AM
To: Alan
Subject: Not to Bright

You know i was a Dem for 50 yrs and iam voting Rep this year first time in my life but you are such a dumb ass and you must have your head up hussein obama ass so bad that you can1t see how bad the future is going to be if the God gets elected. Iguess you are willing to share your wealth with me and as far as the show that you are on you are a disgrace to everyone that watches and you have no sense at all .You are radical that you could even piss Jesus off, Hope you read this and email back and iam Man enough to take penny ass views. So when yor asshole if wins take office and you start to suffer be sure and ask God obama your mama to help you

From: CM
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:40 PM
To: Alan
Subject: colmes is a filthy pig

what a lowlife , what a vile creep TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT Joe on welfare.

WHAT A LOW BLOW,

COLMES YOU ARE LOWER THAN A SNAKES BELLY

I CANT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE STUPID COLMES

From: Joe
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:11 AM
To: Alan
Subject: views

i know that you are paid to give a complete opposite view of the honest and decent sean,there is no way that you could actually be that stupid and trashy? joe the fireman quincy in joe chandler

From: Leonard
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:59 PM
To: Alan
Subject:

Very nice dog. A bit nervous, but to be expected living with you. He would be a perfect replacement for you and much nicer to look at. I am sure his analysis would be much more intelligent. How does the Humane Society allow this cute dog to live with you?

From: Rick
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:11 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Sarah Palan

Allen

You’re a cheap shot artist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don’t have any balls to talk to anyone like a man.

My name is Rick Riley, a man.

From: Alan
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:52 PM
To: Alan
Subject: RE: Sarah Palan

Thank you, Ms. Riley.

From: Robert
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 7:35 AM
To: Alan
Subject: Bonnie Colmes

Allan;

There is no hope for your damn dog. She hates you, Period.
It does’nt help the fact that you are a democrat.

Word is that the incoming Obama administration will act quickly to do things by executive order that can have an immediate effect on a number of issues.

• Obama himself has signaled, for example, that he intends to reverse Bush’s controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a decision that scientists say has restrained research into some of the most promising avenues for defeating a wide array of diseases, such as Parkinson’s.

• The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal…

• The president-elect has said, for example, that he intends to quickly reverse the Bush administration’s decision last December to deny California the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

• Other early Obama initiatives may address the need for improved food and drug regulation and chart a new course for immigration enforcement, some Obama advisers say. But they add that only a portion of his early efforts will be aimed at undoing Bush initiatives.

Because not everything is regulated by Congress, which never legislated on stem cells, for example, a chief executive can make immediate changes in some areas by executive order.  It will be nice to know that we’ll have a White House that recognizes that there is now something called science.