Jesus and John Oxendine in the bleachers
Update on Jesus in the bleachers entry from the other day via Twitter:
The Catoosa superintendent banned Jesus from the field Friday, but he was represented in the stands. AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry
John Oxendine, GOP candidate for governor, sent out a note on Twitter over the weekend that he “met the cheerleaders at Lakeview- Fort Oglethorpe HS and read them my proclamation in support. Keep up the good work girls.“
Earlier, he asked Georgians via Twitter: “For everybody going to Friday night football across GA, have fun and remember the brave cheerleaders at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe HS.”
You can read these and Oxendine’s other Twitterings here.
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25 comments Add your comment
Parent
October 5th, 2009
12:20 pm
Thanks, I’ll remember that name when I vote for someone else.
mama-mia
October 5th, 2009
12:23 pm
Me too.
jim d
October 5th, 2009
12:32 pm
well thats makes 3
Northern Visitor
October 5th, 2009
12:32 pm
Once again you slack-jawed yokels show why your school systems are failing. But if the electorate is okay with it…no big deal. Lawns will always have to be cut and burgers will always have to be flipped.
V for Vendetta
October 5th, 2009
12:46 pm
Anyone who values reason and common sense would do well to vote for someone else. What a moron.
Jeff
October 5th, 2009
1:05 pm
Remember y’all, this guy calls people who violate the Constitution ‘patriots’ and thinks hackers out for the next thrill are ‘terrorists’ – even though there is ZERO indication ANY fear tactic was used.
Oh, and did you know he likes to bully 15yo HS sophomores for fun?
Larry
October 5th, 2009
2:05 pm
If they insist on getting Jesus involved in their football games, a better position would be on their team and not the cheerleading squad. They got hammered 34-0 last Friday night.
BTW northern visitor, my kids were born here, but I grew up in Philly. If you can’t keep a lid on your insults, you’re going to need a PS/2 keyboard port in your lower intestine.
Lakeview - Ft. O. fan
October 5th, 2009
2:22 pm
I was at the game friday night and saw Jesus in the visitor’s stands.
Said he had changed sides because of all the fuss—in his name.
Reality 2
October 5th, 2009
5:55 pm
Isn’t there a verse in the Bible that warns us not to use his name in vain…
Jennifer
October 5th, 2009
5:58 pm
4
ScienceTeacher671
October 5th, 2009
6:17 pm
5
Northern Visitor
October 5th, 2009
6:30 pm
@Billy
I’de like to see you try. Give me a call; my number is XXXXX. (From Maureen, I deleted this so-called phone number.)
ScienceTeacher671
October 5th, 2009
7:18 pm
Cool, Northern Visitor, you’re Jenny? THE Jenny???
Teacher, Too
October 6th, 2009
9:34 am
6
DeKalb Conservative
October 6th, 2009
10:35 am
I hope he stays true to his views.
For example, if he is elected I hope he immediately moves to change Cheshire Bridge Rd in Atlanta into being a historic district and rename the road Mary Magdalene Way.
DeKalb Conservative
October 6th, 2009
10:36 am
Probably shouldn’t have specified my last response was sarcasm. The screen name can throw people off.
Moving on… Any one have additional stats on this school? This has all the makings of a school that doesn’t have sex education talks via the parents, or schools and the potential for a high concentration of bible thumping pregnant 17 year olds.
TW
October 6th, 2009
3:21 pm
7
ScienceTeacher671
October 6th, 2009
4:13 pm
Oh, Maureen, it was just the phone number from the Tommy Tutone song “Jenny”….
free market educator
October 6th, 2009
8:25 pm
Speaking of sep. of church and state, Obama worship comes to Howard county:
Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama–He says
Yes we can!
President Obama–We say
Yes we can!
President Obama–I say
Yes I can!
President Obama–He says
Yes we can!
Barack Obama–Oh yes he rates,
The first Black President in the United States!
He’s smart and he’s–so so good!
He’ll lead this country as he should!
He wants us all to work together,
To make this country even better!
Prez’ Obama says–”Yes We Can!”
Make the US better–hand in hand!
Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama
President!
Required singing at Longfellow Elementary.
http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-worship-comes-to-howard-county.html
Willie Don E. Magill, V
October 7th, 2009
12:14 am
What’s wrong with this song? Don’t kids also sing songs about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln? Our kids sing a song about Crawford Lewis, our heroic superintendent. He’s heck on bullying and cheating. Not. He shuts down grievance hearings — or at least his boy does. His boy doesn’t give back tapes and or keep his word. He promises a teacher, in writing no less, that he will conduct a grievance according to the law…but Pinnochio is a good boy too. Eugene (Gene) Walker, are you receiving criticisms about conflicts-of-interests on the school board? Not to worry. All nine must resign. The school board is more clownish than the superintendent clown himself. They get along swimmingly. Crawford is our hero. He’s not an educational zero. He’s our hero. Hero. Hero. Hero.
Crawford Lewis, he is a great superintendent
Crawford Lewis, he used to work at Montgomery Elementary
His step-and-fetch-it man is Senator Ronald B. Ramsey
Yes, Ronald is the one
Yes, Ronald is the one
He is the one who shuts down grievance hearings for Lewis
Yes, he is Lewis’s step-and-fetch-it man
Chorus: Crawford and Ronald, they are clowns
Crawford and Ronald, they are clowns
They are the biggest clowns in all of the town
Except for Josie Alexander, the system’s legal hound
I wrote this beautiful song for the teachers of DeKalb County who are so irked by the above characters. Do you like my song? Hey Josie, the song is making fun of you and your cohorts! Ohhhhh. Send me another letter and make up some legal fiction called “illegal satire,” eh? Did you really miss Constitutional Law in your law school? I am so sorry. Write to me, and I will send you a free ticket to the Piccadilly in South DeKalb Mall. If you and your cohorts don’t like being made fun of, then how ’bout abiding by the Georgia Laws? How ‘Bout Them Laws! Ronald B. Ramsey, don’t you help write the laws? Hypocrite. Writing laws and not obeying the laws. Hmm. Now that sounds hypocritical to me.
free market educator
October 7th, 2009
12:47 am
Here are a few more worship songs for the kiddies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JmmFeR7CY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLprurE7EVI&feature=related
free market educator
October 7th, 2009
1:15 am
Not to discriminate between competing denominations, here’s a different tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mWes14bWw
Hannah
October 13th, 2009
12:49 pm
what’s so terrible about john oxendine?
“A nice, religious guy???? With good moral values???? and conservative economic policies???? running for OFFICE???? Well, we’ll just see about that!”
bkbroila
October 27th, 2009
1:40 am
LOL…john “dumb as an Ox” endine will has done more than nixon to separate ethics, moral values and Jesus from politics…I’m sure he gives a damn whether or not Jesus is in the stands of a football game…
Hugo Brown
December 7th, 2009
4:09 pm
Willie: I love what you say about Ronald B. Ramsey and Crawford Lewis. Both are educational clowns. They ought to look sideways in their mirrors when they shave in the morning.