EAST POINT, Ga. -- Disabled Forest Park councilwoman Karen-Brandee Williams wants the city to buy her an ergo-dynamic orthopedic chair that would ease her pain while she sits during council meetings.

“I have a lot of excruciating pain,” said Williams. “And I only ask for a chair,” she said.

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“She can buy herself one I guess,” said East Point Mayor Corine Deyton.

Deyton told Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones that the city had nothing to do with the accident and shouldn't have to pay for a chair that costs $1,900.

“If you're disabled, then why did you run for office? I mean, … if you're really disabled. That's just the way I feel about it,” said Deyton.

Williams was offended by the comment.

“To me, that sounds very discriminatory,” said Williams.

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FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Sept. 28-29, 2010. N=900 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"Thinking ahead to the next presidential election, if the 2012 presidential election were held today, would you definitely vote to reelect Barack Obama, probably vote to reelect Obama, probably vote for someone else, or definitely vote for someone else?"

DefinitelyObama | Probably Obama | Probably someone else | Definitely someone else | Too soon(vol.)/Unsure
9/28-29/10
19% | 20% | 14% | 40% | 7%


"Thinking ahead to the next presidential election, if the election were held today, how would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican ?" Options rotated

Barack Obama (D) | Mitt Romney (R) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.) | Unsure
9/28-29/10
41% | 40% | 7% | 2% | 11%


Barack Obama (D) | Sarah Palin (R) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.) | Unsure
9/28-29/10
48% | 35% | 7% | 3% | 8%

Barack Obama (D) | Mike Huckabee (R) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.) | Unsure
9/28-29/10
43% | 40% | 5% | 2% | 10%

Barack Obama (D) | Jeb Bush (R) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.) | Unsure
9/28-29/10
45% | 37% | 6% | 3% | 9%

Barack Obama (D) | Chris Christie (R) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.) | Unsure
9/28-29/10
42% | 30% | 7% | 2% | 19%

"How would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama and a candidate from the Tea Party movement?" Options rotated
Barack Obama (D) | Tea Party candidate | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.) | Unsure
9/28-29/10
43% | 32% | 7% | 3% | 15%

"If the 2012 presidential election were held today, how would you vote if the choices were Barack Obama,
the Democrat, Sarah Palin, the Republican, and Mike Bloomberg, an independent?" Options rotated
Barack Obama (D) | Sarah Palin (R) | Mike Bloomberg (I) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote (vol.)/Unsure
9/28-29/10
40% | 28% | 18% | 3% | 12%

"If the 2012 presidential election were held today, how would you vote if the choices were Barack Obama,
the Democrat, Sarah Palin, the Republican, and Hillary Clinton, as an independent candidate?"" Options rotated
Barack Obama (D) | Sarah Palin (R) | Hillary Clinton (I) | Other (vol.) | Wouldn't vote(vol.)/Unsure
9/28-29/10
30% | 29% | 27% | 4% | 10%

Beck uses this book - and Paine's name - to criticize "Progressivism," blaming it for much of what ails the country. Sadly, this is a complete distortion of Paine's legacy. While the extent of most Americans' knowledge of Paine is "he wrote Common Sense, I teach his work in class every year. I use "The Crisis" and selections from "The Rights of Man" and "Age of Reason." If you want to understand Paine and his vision for America, you should read them. Beck doesn't understand Paine, but he does want to use the credibility of "The Founding Fathers" to promote an anti-government message.

From what I know of American history, Thomas Paine would have been appalled by Beck associating their two ideologies, and he would have bitch-slapped Beck. And Beck would have deserved it.

Just before midnight, a "note" was posted on Sarah Palin's Facebook page titled, "Concerning the 'Death Panels.'" Predictably, the media latched onto it and reported her thoughts. However, there's a problem: there's no way in hell Sarah Palin wrote it.

How do I know this, you ask? Well, the answer to that question is perhaps best explained by a comment someone named Marvin Settle posted under Palin's note. He wrote:

Wow, and the public thought she wasn't educated enough to be President? That is some of the most well researched and thought out material I have ever read. Thanks Sarah.

Exactly! Thank you Marvin Settle. Thank you very much.

So who's writing Sarah's Facebook notes? Hell, your guess is as good as mine. Meg Stapleton perhaps? Bill Kristol? An intern? The person ghostwriting her forthcoming book? Who knows! But whoever it is, their being enlisted to perform these services is obviously part of a diabolical plan to rehabilitate Palin's image as a staggering dipshit.

During Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in office, congress granted every request the new president made. Barack Obama, despite enjoying a decisive majority in both houses of Congress, hasn't been so fortunate. His economic stimulus package failed to win a single Republican vote in the House, and conservative members of his own party are trying to block his ambitious plans to provide universal health care and curb global warming. What's more, Obama himself has alarmed supporters by compromising on key issues, and he has yet to flex his political muscle by mobilizing the tech-savvy network of grass-roots activists he assembled during last year's campaign. All of which raises the question: Is Obama raising false hopes? Or does he have what it takes to deliver real change?

To assess Obama's performance during his first six months in office, we sat down in our New York offices with three of America's leading political observers. David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, served in the White Houses of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics. Michael Moore is the Academy Award-winning director of Bowling for Columbine and Sicko; his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, will premiere on October 2nd.