The use and abuse of racial identity in politics, Atlanta-style
Aaron Turpeau, an Atlanta political activist and strategist, has dropped a little bomb into the middle of the city’s mayoral race in the form of a memo to unknown black leaders in Atlanta. The document, intended to be private, calls on black Atlanta to unite behind a single black candidate to keep the mayor’s office in black hands, allowing the city to pursue what Turpeau calls a “black agenda.”
The memo, which came to light Thursday, makes at least two egregious, offensive and dangerous assumptions:
First, it treats the mayor’s office as a black possession, a trophy of sorts that could be surrendered to white Atlantans for the first time in 35 years. That is a cartoonish, archaic approach to politics that, among other things, ignores the humanity of individual mayoral candidates, with all their strengths and weaknesses, and tries to reduce them to mere representatives of their respective races.
That mindset has had its day, and that day is, or ought to be, over. But as the memo reminds us, it isn’t quite. There are those in the black and white communities who still see opportunity, profit and power in extending that day beyond its normal lifespan, and the Turpeau memo lays out one way it might be done.
In fact, the memo is valuable because it brings to the surface a sentiment that is more widely held among black voters than many local leaders, black and white, would care to publicly acknowledge. Many black voters — older voters in particular — take pride in the idea that Atlanta is a black-run city, and for some that sense of pride would be diminished if a white person were elected to lead it.
While such sentiments are not supposed to be acknowledged, they are real and they have a foundation in history that ought to be respected. Trying to judge them out of context is impossible. When Maynard Jackson was elected mayor in 1973, becoming the first African American elected to lead a major southern city, black Atlantans understandably celebrated that day as a mark of progress for a people whose ambitions and abilities had long been suppressed. The city had given the world its native son, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1968 King had been returned to Atlanta as a martyr. Five years later, that city had elected a black man to lead it, and a natural sense of black ownership developed almost immediately.
They were not alone. Many white voters at the time invested a similar symbolic power in Jackson’s election. They too believed that what was “ours” had become “theirs,” and they abandoned the city as a result.
So how does that play out today, in the Atlanta of 2009?
To some white voters, the cultural memory of repression among black Americans has become an obstacle to progress and racial harmony. Slavery, they note, ended almost 145 years ago and the Civil Rights Act passed back in 1964. “Get over it,” in other words, the past is past.
Well, it’s not so easy as all that. In fact, if someone were to propose, say, pulling down monuments to Confederate soldiers at county courthouses around the state, I suspect that white cultural memories from that era would bubble to the surface pretty quickly and pretty passionately. Old times here are not forgotten, and they still have the power to move people. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
On the other hand, it is equally fatuous to claim, as the memo does, that “if a white candidate were to win the 2009 mayoral race, it would be just as significant in political terms as Maynard Jackson’s victory in 1973.” No, it would not. There would be no comparison whatsoever between the two. Such a claim requires you to believe that opportunities and racial attitudes in Atlanta, in Georgia, and in the United States in 2009 are unchanged since 1973, and they are not. It is impossible to sustain such a ridiculous argument in a day when Barack Obama sits in the Oval Office. Americans can, should and increasingly do judge candidates “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” even if a small number of people, black and white both, are not yet ready to live up to that admonition.
It was also hard to miss the undercurrent of pleasure that the memo’s publication inspired in certain quarters. White voters who had cringed for decades at accusations of racism now had documentary evidence that black people too saw things in terms of us vs. them, and they haven’t been shy about pointing out that fact. Personally, I don’t think you can blame them. It is a very human reaction.
But while we’re on the subject, let’s remember that there was also evidence of that “ours vs. theirs” mindset in the reaction of some white Americans to Obama’s inauguration. It would be unfair and harsh to describe that sentiment as racist, at least in the classic sense of believing that one race is superior to the other. Nor was that attitude in many cases even conscious, instead manifesting itself in such nonsense as the claim that Obama is not an American citizen. It was more about a sense of possession and dispossession, the idea that “they” had won and “we” had lost the most valuable and symbolically important post in the land.
It was, in other words, the mirror image of the sentiment expressed in Turpeau’s memo.
It’s no secret: Invoking racial identification makes voters of all colors easier to manipulate. Tom Watson and George Wallace knew that, as did Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater. So does Turpeau. It can blind voters white and black to the failures of leaders who share their background and to the virtues of those of a different skin tone, and for that reason it is dangerous.
In the Atlanta of 2009, we can do a lot better than that, which leads us to the second major problem with the memo.
The memo states explicitly what it calls “an unstated assumption:”
“… having a black mayor in Atlanta is equal to having a black social, economic and political agenda or at least someone in office who would be sensitive to that agenda if not a full promoter of that agenda.”
With that statement, the memo moves the discussion from the symbolism of race politics to its practical impact. It assumes that only a black leader can help black Atlanta, and by doing so it legitimizes the photographic negative of that argument: Only a white leader can help white Atlanta.
Once that mindset takes hold, we’ve all been cheated, white and black both. Mary Norwood, a white city council member who has worked for years to build relationships across racial, class and geographic lines, might as well abandon the effort. The same can be said for Kasim Reed and Lisa Borders, black candidates who have many enthusiastic supporters among white Atlantans. The argument in the memo attempts to negate that success and reduce us to Shiites vs. Sunnis, tribal loyalties overwhelming all.
To some degree, “the black agenda” is also a code term for economic gain. If the office of mayor moves from black hands to white hands, the argument goes, control of jobs and contracts shifts as well. At one level, the Turpeau memo is a warning to black Atlanta not to let that happen.
It is easy to cast that aspect of the memo in the worst possible light, and some will try to do so. But in practical terms, there is nothing unique or surprising about it. If you’ve ever experienced a county-level election in which one courthouse crowd is challenging the other for control of jobs and contracts, you know how bitter the fight can get without race playing any role whatsoever. Simply put, the winner in politics enjoys the spoils of war. In fact, one of the more remarkable results of the supposed political revolution in Georgia, the shift from Democratic to Republican control, was the fact that the levers of economic power remained in the same hands. Once the smoke cleared, most of the same faces were still in the same places, having exchanged a D for an R, which tells you it really wasn’t a revolution at all.
That faux revolution at the state level was itself inspired in part by sentiments of us vs. them, and I think the fact that nothing has really changed for the better has begun to sink in among many Georgians who supported the change. The state is still beset by a poor education system and for many a stagnant or declining economy, and problems such as transportation and water have gotten noticably worse.
A similar realization is reflected in the Turpeau memo. (For the record, Turpeau claims he didn’t write the memo himself, that it was the product of a group of people, and it does in fact read that way.)
Even after decades of black leadership, the document notes “the persistent poverty in the city, the educational crisis in the schools; the human security/public safety concerns; the type of economic development policies being pursued; and the city’s awful financial management issues.” It acknowledges that “just having a black mayor doesn’t guarantee that African American issues and concerns would be effectively addressed either (as the current administration’s relationship to the African American community clearly demonstrates). In other words, are we simply providing votes without any expectations of the candidate that would enjoy our support?”
That’s a damn fine question, one that crosses racial lines and political boundaries. And the truth is, at the local, state and national level, the emphasis on race-identity politics endorsed in the memo aggravates the very problems the memo outlines. It distracts the attention of voters of all races from the issues that truly matter. At one point the memo’s authors even state that concern explicitly.
“In other words, in 2009 we have arrived at a place in time where we can no longer afford to just look at race in the mayor’s race or individual council races,” it concludes.
So Turpeau and his unknown colleagues get it. They understand the limitations of the politics they endorse, even as they find themselves unable to extricate themselves from it. It is too easy and too tempting, for them and for the rest of us too.
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stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
4:14 pm
Can you please tell me who the “usual white supremacists” are on this blog
Sure. Bud, who routinely refers to blacks as “94%ers”. Wyld for obvious reasons (although he’s probably just a parody of a clueless old racist fool, he plays it very, very well.). And there are some namestealers who post rubbish as well, too lazy to look ‘em up.
That said, I don’t know how that amounts to “accus[ing] large groups of being racist, not for their words or deeds, but for their political affiliation.”
That sounded to me like you were claiming I thought Republicans were racist. I don’t go around flinging that term willy-nilly, and I certainly don’t consider the RNC to be a white supremacist organization.
Later, all.
Kamchak
August 28th, 2009
4:17 pm
josef
California. The best place to be in August—mid seventies during the day, mid fifties at night, a great weekend Jazz-fest spanning the downtown area, and an MLS franchise.
Dusty
August 28th, 2009
4:19 pm
JOSEF, whatcha talking ’bout @ 3:55?
As to your message to Tancredo: DITTO!
Bud Wiser
August 28th, 2009
4:19 pm
Tancred, don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ when you leave.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
4:20 pm
Rather fond of it myself. One of my brothers lived there while I was up in the Northwest, got a chance to go down from time to time. Still prefer Costa Rica, though.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
4:25 pm
DUSTY–the movie “Caveman.” The script writers created a language for their cave people and it confroms to the basic linguistic principals of grammar-lexicology-syntax in language structure.
I’m for the purple-polka dot candidate, too! Think we can convince Normal to toss in his chapeau?
thomas
August 28th, 2009
4:33 pm
Mrs. Godzilla,
why should there be any words in the english language that are ok to say around a certain race?
Sorry maybe it is just that I did not grow up in a racist, bigotry filled society as you did. However, in my generation most would claim that the NON-DISCRIMINATORY thing to do would be use all words you see fit in front of all.
Me personally I have been called uppity. I’V called my friends uppity. (GASP some were black OHNO)
My understanding and that of most others who do not see a need to introduce race into EVERYTHING, is that Uppity is a state of mind not a color.
Also Mrs. Godzilla, could you or someone else please compose a list of words in commonly used in the english language which have now been found by someone to be offensive?
I would like to eliminate all uses of the word cracker, even the food as it is offensive to me. And shock Mrs. godzilla people use cracker around me everyday, regardless of my feelings.
Jay, please explain to me how it is more racist, or worse to call a person uppity, than for a memo to be sent out expressly stating to keep a single race in power?
The only reason I could come up with is you feel that its more appropriate to flat out say something ethnocentric/racist, than to use a word that COULD be seen as racist.
I for some strange reason was shocked to see this is what you wrote after your obvious anger and displeasure with the Uppity comment.
Dusty
August 28th, 2009
4:36 pm
Thank you, JOSEF,
Never a day goes by that I don’t worry about my basic linguistic principals of grammar-lexicology-syntax. What’s a girl to do without it much less a caveman!
Yes, yes, we must convince NORMAL to run for the office of mayor. Just tell him not to write any memos until we get there, what with sintax and all..
Normal
August 28th, 2009
4:38 pm
Y’all, Salsa upstairs…DUSTY, I can’t run for office…I inhaled! Many times!!
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
4:39 pm
Tancred…
“That reminds me of the time I was doing some research in a small town near Muscle Shoals, AL. Me and some other Yankees were hanging out down near a fountain in the ceter of town, and we came upon some kids just hanging out. The asked me where I was from. At the time I was living in Chicago. I said: “I’m from Chicago.” The kid said “Is that as big as Birmingham?” Some folks just have no curiousity to see some other parts of the world.”
You should have answered the question.”It’s bigger than Birmingham. The city of Chicago has about 2,800,000 people. The city of Birmingham has about 250,000. That means Chicago is about 12 times the size of Birmingham. Think of it this way. If I were Birmingham and y’all were Chicago, that means there would be 12 of y’all.”
Curiosity? Didn’t they show more curiosity about you and where you were from than you did them.
Kamchak
August 28th, 2009
4:42 pm
thomas
“uppity” is the first word of a two word phrase. I cannot repeat the second word, as it would put my comment in moderation. Suffice it to say, that two word phrase has been oft repeated to the point where I am amazed that anyone born in the South has not been exposed to it. That is why I made a point of asking mike where he spent his formative years. The thrust of Jay’s criticism of Mr. Westmoreland is that he (Westmoreland) WAS born and raised in the South, and should have known the ramifications of uttering even one-half of that offensive phrase.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
4:44 pm
NORMAL–oh, yes, you can! You can even become a Fierce Advocate!
DUSTY–reckon maybe me and you ought to go off on some quotes from our favorites so’s Tancred might feel more at home…? I’ll start…”Tom’s a fool!”
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
4:47 pm
Kamchak–uppity is an adjective. I’ve been called it more than once and it wasn’t used to modify that noun..I’ve been called an uppity Jew, an uppity f**got, an uppity white boy, an uppity snob, an uppity Creole, an uppity Sephard….and the list just goes on and on…I want to keep the word myself as, well what else can I call Tancred but an uppity Yankee!
Bob
August 28th, 2009
4:53 pm
Matilda, I thought I read that you lived out in North Fulton with all of the uber priveliged ? You tell your friends you live in Atlanta so you can claim the progressive Label ?
Matilda
August 28th, 2009
4:54 pm
Josef, nice response to the yankee. I also wondered why he chose to make a generalization about people who had not yet had the opportunity to travel, as he had, and why he didn’t engage them thusly.
Kamchak
August 28th, 2009
4:55 pm
Yes josef i know what part of speech “uppity” is, but you have less to lose when you employ that adjective. A middle-aged white politician from the South using it to describe a man of color should understand the political fallout in using that word.
Matilda
August 28th, 2009
4:56 pm
Bob, I grew up in Atlanta. I purchased a home in an older, modest N. Fulton neighborhood near my job and some good schools. IS THAT A PROBLEM FOR YOU?
md
August 28th, 2009
5:02 pm
For what its worth, I was raised in the south and “uppity” was used for the snobs living in Marietta (at the time).
As for the memo, race issues will never go away until the labels are gone. The fact that the memo was distrisbuted by the “Atlanta Black Leadership Forum” says it all. Not the Asian leadership forum or the Latino leadership forum or even the Moonbat leadership forum. Until it becomes the Atlanta Leadership Forum”, the issues will not go away.
We are a country divided by the selfishness of labeling. There is nothing wrong with knowing ones heritage, but we are all Americans – not african-american, irish-american, italian-american, etc. Those labels can only be claimed my immigrants of the 1st generation – if one is born in this country, they are Americans – period.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
5:14 pm
Matilda–thank you. It has been my experience that those who come off with such attitudes as Tancred are those who feel they have “clawed” their way to where they are and still nurse a sense of inferiority which they salve by casting dispersion on “those people,” whoever those people may be.
It might be noted that Immanuel Kant never left Koenigsberg.
Kamchak–I agree. This is why it’s ever so important to put the noun there.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
5:16 pm
Tancred–as Sienkiewicz might say, quo vadis?
Eddy
August 28th, 2009
5:17 pm
So Atlanta must have a black mayor to further the black agenda….someone please do an accounting on the black agenda so far: education and graduation rates by race, crime statistics by race, corruption at City Hall defined as being convicted by race, etc. If the idiots want to discuss race and the absolute requirement to have a black mayor then let’s recap the accomplishments so far over however many decades starting with Maynard and compare each mayor’s stats with the last white mayor’s. It is safer in Bagdad than it is in Atlanta…just watch the local news…..WSB.
And to highlight the racists and bigots….the Black Leadership Council, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP……now suppose we create the equivalent white, Hispanic and Asian organizations. Maybe there would be parity at last.
Kamchak
August 28th, 2009
5:26 pm
josef
My point is Westmoreland didn’t have to put the noun there. He was being politically correct–his base heard what they wanted to hear, and by using only one-half of the phrase he could and did issue the standard “I didn’t know and I’m sorry if you were offended” non-apology. The cherry on top is that now he has his own cat’s-paw like mike doing the ’splainin’ all the while distancing himself from a controversial comment.
md
August 28th, 2009
5:46 pm
“And to highlight the racists and bigots….the Black Leadership Council, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP……now suppose we create the equivalent white, Hispanic and Asian organizations. Maybe there would be parity at last.”
For the sake of clarity, there are congressional Hispanic and Asian Caucuses – no white or european ones though.
Dusty
August 28th, 2009
5:51 pm
Normal,
You INHALED?????
Then you are correct. You must not be a mayor. You can be PRESIDENT!!!
Bob
August 28th, 2009
5:52 pm
No pron=blem for me, I saw you say your neighbors were uber privaliged and wondered why a good progressive would live by the ubers. Did they tell you that they were privaliged or did a good progressive label an entire group. Lots of good houses for sale here in town if you get tired of living among the elites in N Fulton, plenty of room in our city schools for a good progressive’s kids. If you are truly a progressive, why not get some diversity in your kids lives instead of forcing them to go to school with those that are uber privaliged?
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
5:58 pm
I agree with your summation of the Westmoreland case. The nazis played this game to the hilt. One of the most fascinating aspects of that time was just how easily and thoroughly they manipulated the language. Indeed, this is “how they did it.” This was at the heart of my issue with Jay (and, no, I’m not calling him a nazi). He tried to dismiss my objects with the dismissive I’m-sorry-if-you-were-offended and claimed, nonetheless, not to know what I was offended by. How much really is just careless use of the language, how much is falling prey to the politically correct and how much is a calculated and thought out process are, of course, relative to the conditions of the situation.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
5:59 pm
DUSTY–not President, Dear, Fierce Advocate!
saywhat?
August 28th, 2009
6:24 pm
Mike, you don’t seem to understand that Jay IS critical of this memo, and that even though he provides background for reasons why such a memo got written. One can understand why somebody does something and still think its wrong. The phrase you seems fixated on is “It is easy to cast that aspect of the memo in the worst possible light, and some will try to do so.” Here is a question mike- was Jay’s statement untrue? Just reading the comments here seems to prove that this statement was indeed true. Some people didn’t and won’t ever consider the context and history behind this memo. Jay does, and yet still finds it to be objectionable, as do I. Why do you have a problem with this?
Jay was also critical of Westmorelands “uppity” comment, which you describe as an offhand remark, and which you feel was an example of Jay “casting it in the worst possible light”, thereby making him a hypocrite. Here, Jay was looking at the CONTEXT of Westmorelands remark, the significance of which you again failed to grasp. If Westmoreland had criticized the Clintons as “uppity”, I doubt you would have heard a peep from anybody. Some people might have defended the Clintons as being down to earth, or maybe not, but nobody would have been offended by the wording of the criticism. But when a sitting white southern Congressman calls the first black president of the United States of America and his first lady “uppity”, the context is all too obvious to anybody with a clue. Given Westmoreland’s origins and upbringing, pretending he had no idea this would be really offensive to millions of people is simply absurd. Believe it or not, Jay could have cast Westmorelands comment under far worse light, but didn’t. He made a pretty safe assumption of Westmorelands motives based on context and history, not wildly off base unsupported suppositions.
Could Jay have be wrong about his criticism of Westmoreland, and wrong about the historical and political factors possibly mitigating some of the controversy regarding this memo? Of course he could be wrong, but at least he didn’t reach his conclusions by looking at and judging these events in a vacuum, ignoring every fact he didn’t want to believe.
But as others have already said, you are right, everybody else is wrong, so don’t bother actually thinking this through.
Matilda
August 28th, 2009
6:33 pm
Bob, not that it’s any of your business, but my kids are busy adding much-needed cultural and political diversity to their schools up here, thanks. I taught them to lead, not follow, and they’re doing quite well. Thanks for your concern.
md
August 28th, 2009
6:49 pm
” But when a sitting white southern Congressman calls the first black president of the United States of America and his first lady “uppity”, the context is all too obvious to anybody with a clue.”
There are those labels I was referring to earlier. My how they make a difference. I thought one was a congressman and one was a president, funny how some see color first.
saywhat?
August 28th, 2009
6:50 pm
md wrote “For the sake of clarity, there are congressional Hispanic and Asian Caucuses – no white or european ones though.”
A Republican white or european caucus would be redundant, as would even a bipartisan congressional white caucus. In the far future though, as today’s ethnic and racial minorities eventually become an overwhelming majority, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a “white caucus” eventually spring up. When it does, I doubt there will be much stink raised about it either.
saywhat?
August 28th, 2009
6:57 pm
md wrote “There are those labels I was referring to earlier. My how they make a difference. I thought one was a congressman and one was a president, funny how some see color first.”
Go ahead and ignore the context. Next time you address a group of Holocaust survivors, show up with your head shaved, and make a funny little joke about about sending anybody who falls asleep off to the ovens. Nobody will take offense, because you will be seen merely as a speaker, and the holocaust survivors as merely an audience. Only a bigot would think of them as Jews.
When I look at Westmoreland and Obama, I do see a Congressman and a President first, but that doesn’t mean I am oblivious to everything else. Are you?
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
7:12 pm
Matilda–he keeps calling you “priviledged.” That is another one that galls me. Of course you may be priviledged. I was born, bred and brought up as “priviledged.” I was also taught that that carried with it responsibilites and primary among them was that we were the “leaders.” We would be judged, not on our birth status, but what we made of it to leave the world a better place for having passed through.
saywhat?–”Holocaust survivors…only a bigot would think of them as Jews.”
You fall prey to your own castigation. The view of the Holocaust as a “Jewish” thing ignores the fate that befell other “Untermenschen.” What you really are referring to, I think, is the Shoah. You might be interested in looking into the Porrajmos for a clearer understanding of why that distinction is important.
md
August 28th, 2009
7:34 pm
“When I look at Westmoreland and Obama, I do see a Congressman and a President first, but that doesn’t mean I am oblivious to everything else. Are you?”
And there in lies the problem for the country will not heal until one is “oblivious to everything else”. Race will be forever an issue until there are only a congressman and a president.
Bob
August 28th, 2009
7:37 pm
exactly right Matilda, it is none of my business, I just wish progressives/libs would mind their own business when it comes to my kids, my healthcare and my retirement. I’m glad those uber privileged kids have someone to lead them as I am sure none of them could ever lead, especially without the diversity you brought to the table. Could you please explain what your definition of uber privileged is, it just kind of stuck out bacause it is such a wide net you cast. And just a little disapointed that a good progressive would label an entire group that you most likely do not socialize with.
md
August 28th, 2009
7:39 pm
“In the far future though, as today’s ethnic and racial minorities eventually become an overwhelming majority, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a “white caucus” eventually spring up”
Why should there be a need for any of them. Are congresspeople there to represent us all? Last I checked, there is not a single district in these United States those is made up of solely on demographic. If there is a single solitary individual within the masses, that individual is also being represented by the elected representative.
There should be zero caucuses.
Tancred
August 28th, 2009
8:58 pm
Josef Nix:
“Curiosity? Didn’t they show more curiosity about you and where you were from than you did them.”
Actually, it’s always quite the opposite. I am always very magnanimous with people I’m talking with, and I usually ask more questions. I do oral history and historical research, so I’ve dealt with all kinds of people on a very intimate level. I do sound arrogant sometimes, but that is because we have public libraries, and a curious person has no excuse if he or she wants to learn about something. I spent more time at my public library than I ever did at school. That was just me, but curiousity is the key to self-education.
Kamchak
August 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
Tancred
Welcome to this blog. Some of us tend to be chatty, and towards the end of a thread we go off topic. As an oral historian, I believe you can bring a unique perspective to many conversations. Much of what goes on here involves pigeon-holing in a left/right paradigm simply because this is a political blog. Friday night is when many of us lay aside political differences and do a music sharing thing. Tonight is a Latin flavored evening, so if you have any favorites please feel free to share through youtube. The new thread is upstairs. Access it by checking the top of this page, right-hand side under Recent posts.
Homer
August 28th, 2009
9:46 pm
White guilt and Black ignorance is this countries problem.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
9:59 pm
Tancred–I found you rude and vulgar, but am willing to give you a second chance. If Kamchak welcomes you, then so do I.
Jack
August 28th, 2009
10:06 pm
Well well. Talk about a tempest in a teapot! Can’t remember when I’ve seen so much said that signified absolutely nothing.
@@
August 28th, 2009
10:49 pm
There’s nothing more arrogant or presumptuous than having a white liberal explain how blacks view the world.
I would never presume to know.
Just because
August 28th, 2009
10:58 pm
The ol’ black magic ’s got a hold on Atlanta!! There will never be another white mayor that is unless Obama can get jobs for all the unions back up in Chicago, Illinois and Michigan and New Orleans gives incentives for the blacks to move back.
AeroNautica0909
August 28th, 2009
11:02 pm
I have some problems with what some people are saying in these responses. First, I do not agree with the assertion that all black majors of Atlanta have ran the city into the ground. I beg to differ, as in the growth of Atlanta as a business destination and how the city is home to the most Fortune 500 companies outside of New York City and Houston. (Yes, while some of those are in the suburbs, MOST of them are within city limits, and that still holds as being third in home to those companies.) Sure, what mayor is without flaws? However, these mayors have done something that has made Atlanta a business destination and the world’s busiest airport. Secondly, I hate the memo that was put out, as people easily believe that black people in Atlanta don’t care about anything but keeping the mayor’s office under their control. As a black college student living in Stockbridge who wants to move to Downtown, I could care less about how controls the mayor’s office- I’m more interested in how they’ll lower taxes, bring more business to the city and reduce the crime in the city, as well as revitalizing some of the inner city neighborhoods that I’ve driven through. Memos such as this is detrimental to the real issues that need to be discussed.
AeroNautica0909
August 28th, 2009
11:03 pm
Please excuse me typo… I meant to say ‘who controls the mayor’s office.’
AeroNautica0909
August 28th, 2009
11:03 pm
Oops… another typo… I meant ‘my typo.’ Wow… I’m having quite a time typing tonight.
AeroNautica0909
August 28th, 2009
11:07 pm
As a follow-up to my writing: I do agree with Mr. Bookman by saying that older people are more interested in keeping the mayor’s office in black control. Not to be a bit biased on older people but they are more set in their ways than younger people, regardless of how much things have changed. I believe the only way things will get better wherever you are, whether you’re in Atlanta or you’re in Stockbridge (like me), there needs to be fresh blood that are completely independent from past administrations of any kind. These people are more likely to make sweeping changes that will change the city for the better than anyone who has any connections to past administrations or past political machines/systems. Until that happens, regardless of who runs, whether they’re black or white, male or female, whatever- things will remain the same way. That’s when it will be up to the general populace as the electorate to see through the bullcrap and made an educated decision. I do believe that is possible… but the right candidate must present him/herself in order for positive changes to happen.
Angry Black Man
August 28th, 2009
11:10 pm
All this reading, and it seems that there was absolutely no in depth discussion. There were points made here and there, but another day wasted. I was hoping to get home and read some indepth ideas and personal viewpoints, but reading this was like watching kindergarten children fighting over ice cream.
Very good piece, Jay. I’m gonna read the entire text of the letter, but as other’s have stated, I think it’s suspicious. There would have been no better way to bring some type of drama into the election other than what was done.
And to adress the earler comment about the NAACP, study your history. Not the BS that people keep changing to be politically correct or feel good about themselves. I mean actual history. The NAACP was started by white people to help blacks that had been freed from slavery. It’s not like it appeared in the 1960’s. The organization is over 100 years old. If you don’t like it, oh well. You started it, we didn’t.
One last thing. Racist and bigoted are not the same. I wish people would learn the difference. Most people here exhibit signs of being bigoted. Sure you blurt out generalizations, but that’s about it. Racism is more of a power thing, kinda like rape. It’s about asserting power and control.
Yes, I am a Grill Master...
August 29th, 2009
12:44 am
Correction: Atlanta is NOT too busy to hate! In fact, the one thing we do well is hate each other for any superficial reason that comes to mind.
Denise Barber
August 29th, 2009
3:00 am
Hey Jay you JEW – not only is “racism” not a “…cartoonish, archaic approach to politics that, among other things, ignores the humanity of [the] individual ..” (please run that past your fellow Yids, in their dealings with Palestinians, and every other Goy, for that matter. OK?) – but “racism” is on the rise. EthnoNationalism is THE Tidal wave of the future, and it’s gonna drown Die Judenraus SOB’s, who fomented “diversity” in White Nations. Wait til every other Race sees who has engineered all the destruction. Your vile Satanic Tribe may have almost genocided White Christians – but ya still have billions of Arab Muslims just waiting for thier opportunity for payback. And the Chinese are NOT gonna save your greasy asses. Where are ya gonna “Diaspora” to next? Mars? Ha!
Denise Barber
August 29th, 2009
3:03 am
To the Angry Negroid – the NAACP was founded by JEWS , not “White People” you idiot. Specifically to use the Black Man as their chief weapon against White societies. It’s been a very successful tactic, but ultimately a failure, as Negroids are incapable of trascending Race, as well as their own innate genetically mandated savagery.
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
8:46 am
Denise Barber–and top o’the mornin’ to ye, too! Being meself in a fine fettle of a mood for the Shabbas, I couldna help but to be a respondin’ to yer posts. Before I begin though, the Unmentionable says “o-si-yo, unega, and when have you booked passage?”
First, though, is Jay a JEW or for that matter a Jew or as some would post here a jew? Now, I must admit myself, I had sort of assumed he was at the outset, Bookman being a Jew-sounding name, but then so is Barber, but Nix isn’t, so sounds and looks can be deceiving. I still don’t know and in some of mine and Jay’s tangles, I have been tempted in moments of hyperbole to, well, let’s just say, question his International Zionist Conspiracy sympathies.
Now as for yid, well, I’m not particularly offended by that one since it IS the Yiddish word for “Jew,” but being a Sephard myself, I’m afraid my own intra-tribu prejudices color my interpretation thereof.
I don’t presuppose to speak for “every other Goy,” but the one I’ve shared bread, beads and
(uninfested-by-smallpox) blankets with over the last few decades gives me and mine his seal of approval.
Die Judenraus SOBs, eh? Well, if you’re going to spout the dogma, at least get the vocabulary right. If we’re now proper noun status, Judenraus, then your need for Juden ‘raus is now fait accompli and why all the kvetching? Satanic tribe of engineers? Oh, well, the terminologies may be a bit distinct here, but you’ll find plenty of liberal bloggers hereabouts who share your sentiments.
BillionS of Arab Muslims? Wow, have they already gotten rid of the Arab Christians, Arab Jews, Arab Druze, et. al along with the 800,000,000 non Arab Muslims and then reproduced to this point. Hey, them some bad-a** folks we’re dealing with. And the White Christians? What about all those followers of the Christ who don’t pass the Nurnberg test?
Where we gonna “Diaspora” to next? Who knows. But, then, wherever it may be, no doubt the Allm-ghty will see that at lease a remnant survives just to gall folks like you and give you a vent for your Weltanschauungzeitgeistangst. So far, though, life’s been pretty good for my folks down here in Dixieland since the mid 1600s. Mars is a little cold, but Babylon 5 doesn’t look too bad from what I’ve seen so far.
As for the angry Knee-grows, if he promises to check his melanin count first, I’ll leave it to ABM to speak for that tribe in the wilderness. I would like to know, though, who the Jews were among the founders of the Pole Bearers’ Union (forerunner of the NAACP) and who that general was from the war we can’t mention on Jay’s blog with my name attached to the post who was the first white man invited to address the group?
“And the gray sky opened like a new-rent veil
And showed the apostles with their coats of mail.
In bright white steel they were seated round,
And their fire-eyes watched where the Congo wound.
And the twelve Apostles, from their thrones on high,
Thrilled all the forest with their heavenly cry:
“Mumbo-Jumbo will die in the jungle;
Never again will he hoo-doo you,
Never again will he hoo-doo you.”
–Vachel Lindsay, WASP poet
Oh, well, genug ist genug…
Normal
August 29th, 2009
9:50 am
I bet Denise has a a few K’s tattooed on her butt. As my favorite philosopher says…”What a Maroon”
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
10:53 am
Normal–you can bet she wasn’t sippin’ any Carmel Sauvignon! Bless her matzo-pickin’ little heart. G-d love her though…you mean she’s a Jamaican Maroon?
Denise Barber
August 29th, 2009
1:03 pm
To Josef the Yid – ya wanna talk history? Ok bubbelah – let’s hear your opinions of the Ashkenazi attempts at snuffing OUT the Sephardi, in the late 20th Century, after the successful Khazar fun ‘n games genocide of millions of White Russian Christians, in “Soviet” (Talmudic) Russia, and the slaughter and demonization of MILLIONS of Germans, in Poland and Germany, in the first half othe “Jewish Century”. Seems that the Ashkenazis, when they didn’t have Gentiles to butcher, turned your YOU. Hey – since Judaic bloodlust kNOW boundaries – I guess it’s OK for your boychicks to turn on each other. To keep thier skills up. To paraphrase your boychick Karl Marx, “Hey – gotta break some eggs…”. Right?
And do tell me if you’ve had a chance to peruse your copy of Ariel Toaff’s “Blood Passover” yet. Turns out the “libel”….eeerr..wasn’t libel after all!. I finally got and Englsih translation, and I’m only through the first few chapters……..
You had better fnd a place to burrow, my dear Vermin. The Goy are …just beginning…to notice….that a lot of the Global financial mayhem seems ot have been wrought by a distinct ethnic faction………Hmmmmwhere will you go, THIS time? I know you tihnk you have all the JudeoXians locked up, but yout eternal Pride (you got THAT trait from your Daddy, in Hell) prevents you from actually seeing and hearing what’s happening around you. The USA is in total ruin. The Race Wars have already begun. Your Media refuses to report what’s occurring, but soon, very soon, reality will be inescapable. Even them ost moronic, deluded White American Shabbos Goy Schmoo (li.e. “Normal) will have to get off the Racial Utopian Tiolet Seat, in order to simply stay alive – or be flushed down the crap per, by the Darkies they’ve been taught to adore. (Who do NOT return the favor). File the Lost White Goy under the “Eve Carson Poetic Justice” file.
Europeans – you know – that means White – are too busy to serve you, nowadays, as they are fighting off the Muslim invaders themsleves, and are making brilliant headway. The Italians are tossing out Africans and Gyspsy vermin. The BNP is gaining ground by the second. France has that idious little Hungarian Jew at their collective throats – but France is already gone, and the Arab Muzzies kill your Tribe for sport, there. Speaking OF Hungarians – you surely know what they think of you THERE. The USA is AT the point of total collapse, so the Shabbos Goy Military are gonna have their hand full, here, when trhe REAL Party begins. They won’t be able to clamp down on the poosr Eastern Europeans anymore. They know al about YOU, and they are FULL fed up. Putin is playing really clever games right now – but his reponse to the attacks on ethnic Russians, by the Israeli proxy PM, from Georgia, with the ACTUAL Israeli Minister of Defense leading the slaughter, ought to be indictative of where his true sympathies lie. And it ain’t with YOUR Tribe.
What else? Oh – the Icelandic banking colllapse (with Peter Orszag right at the heart of it. Where is HE now, I wonder?…hmmmm….) I heard that those English Special forces had to airlift key platers out, when the banks were closed, including that Israeli beeyich wife of the “Lutheran” PM. Wow. You Hebes sure do get around! I guess it’s the constant expulsions. She’s from an extremely wealthy jewelling family. I understand her grandfather founded the family business by robbing graves. Oy vey! Why do dead people need earring and necklaces, right? Perhpas she’ll wind up in the USA, and carry on for the organ-dealng rabbis….now they they are kinda tied up….
When oy broke bread with your deluded Goy pals – did you use your Special plates? Did they notice?
They JudeoXians will snap out of it The whisperings, out of earshot, have begun…..
Finally – what is your favorite book of the Talmud? The Sodomy at the Synagogue one?
And “not-so-Normal’ can you TRY to be a tad or original than offering inane references to the Klan. Jews thnk you are in idiot, when you suck up to them. And they are right. You don’t see them mocking you to your face, do you? No wonder they regard you as a Cattle Beast Slave.
I am not Klan. I have met Klan, and they are rather sweet. Perhaps you ought to seek them out, though, and cozy up to them ,as they are generous, and will teach you how to survive what’s coming.
RollerGirl
August 29th, 2009
2:02 pm
saywhat? ..
you said “… the more enlightened of us will have to suffer from hearing the valueless spittle flecked rantings of the terminally stupid.”
I assume that means you often read Cynthia Tucker’s column…
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
4:27 pm
The Ashkenazim have not attempted to snuff out the Sephardim. In fact the exact opposite is true. The Sephardic of Hebrew, with Arabic, is one of the languages of the State of Israel.
“Jewish Century?” Oy, we haven’t had it this good since the 14th…
L-rd, you just don’t know who to hate do you? You’re all over the page. I thought y’all had a priority list with us and the Roma at the top, but apparently the Muslims (all several billions of the Arab ones, it would seem) are in the same boat.
Yes, I know what the Hungarians think. They stood up against your kind and put up a fight even when it came down to the wire, saving their fellow Hungarians by the tens of thousands and finally, finally, putting a halt to the trains. They didn’t get a lot of help from outside either, though your very white Sweden and the country named for your savior, El Salvador, must be singled out as the exceptions.
The Republic of Georgia? That’s one of the Caucasian states, isn’t it?
Yes, I do have my special china for Pesach. And, yes, it did receive compliments from the goyim present.
Out of earshot? Oh, sister, if you only knew! In appearance I am your Hitlerian Aryan poster child, strapping build, blonde and blue-eyed as they come and speak my native English in a Southern accent you could cut with a butter knife (or a mohel’s knife should you prefer). i can pass quite easily into the greater society and, quite frankly, I’m not distressed by what I hear being “whispered” at least as far as my “tribe” is concerned.
And Normal? Well, it’s because of people like him that I don’t fear people like you. And there’s a lot more of him than there are of you. Thank the Alm-ghty G-d, Cr-ator of the Universe.
Kamchak
August 29th, 2009
5:13 pm
I am not Klan. I have met Klan and they are rather sweet.
I know you love the South josef just as I do, but this is the kind of thing that I acknowledge as existing just under the surface of many Southerners. That this thing has managed to say “to your face” what many will not speaks to that under-current of (I don’t know–”hatred” seems so inadequate and “tribalism” too clinical) knuckle-dragging neanderthalism that will continue to be an anchor to the human race. If Denise is indeed of the fairer sex, that just proves it takes both boars and sows to breed pigs.
catlady
August 29th, 2009
6:03 pm
I’m afraid it IS like that, Jay.
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
6:11 pm
Kamchak, Catlady…thanks for taking the time. But, K, I’m not sure she’s a Southerner. I’m not sure she’s even human.
Normal
August 29th, 2009
6:24 pm
Josef…elsewhere
Normal
August 29th, 2009
6:25 pm
Dinese, If you’re the product of what’s coming, I don’t want to survive…jus’ sayin’
Kamchak
August 29th, 2009
6:29 pm
But, K, I’ not sure she’s a Southerner
Wanna bet a shot of Jameson’s on that?
I’m not sure she’s even human.
One of my favorite shows was Dark Angel (Jessica Alba–sigh). Don’t know if you are familiar with it but the show was about genetically engineered humans. Some of the experiments didn’t go as planned and these ‘nomalies were kept in the basement. Nature produces it’s own anomalies.
Angry Black Man
August 29th, 2009
6:46 pm
Josef
I quit reading that bs at the word negroid. WTF is a negroid? Is it a black hemmoroid? Some type of super secret cyborg?
Norm, sent you a message. And I totally agree with your 6:25.
Sad to say that I even go to work to protect the right for people to prattle off like that.
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
7:16 pm
K’chak–would bet with you, but even I’d not give me good odds there!
Normal–well, I DO want to survive. Pop up and p*ss her off for real! Can’t you just see it now. Hey, there’s an idea for a screen play. Just think, there may indeed be a Sartian h*ll and she’ll be trapped with me forever!
ABM–aw, come on. You and Normal and K’chak could be right there with me! Got some preparation H for you–that H stands for Hebe…and yeah, earlier I was wondering about my own unbending dedication to the right of free speech, but when I asked Jay to leave this up, it was because to take it down would be stooping to her level and selling out…
Jay
August 29th, 2009
7:34 pm
Josef, Kam, if you google her name there’s a suggestion she may hail from Pennsylvania.
Which wouldn’t surprise me, really. The tone and language of her rant — unless my ear is mistaken, it doesn’t sound like the southern-style bigot. There’s something ideological and cant-driven about it, which in my experience signifies a northern subspecies of that breed.
Kamchak
August 29th, 2009
8:07 pm
Jay
I sit corrected.
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
8:11 pm
JAY–Thanks. I should have bet with K*mchak! I suspected as much and for the same reasons you did, but I just couldn’t put it in words. I wanted to say a Southerner would have been more “artful”and “original” in expressing hatred and bigotry, but I figured that would sound like I was being my usual ethnocentric self. Your “ideological” and “cant driven” distinction says it best. And thanks for leaving this up.
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
8:28 pm
K’Chak–well, well, well…see what I get for coming to agreement with you! Lost my shot!
josef nix
August 29th, 2009
8:29 pm
Off to Babylon 5 and G’Kar’s redemption. As the Unmentionable says, “Jews in space!”
Denise Barber
August 30th, 2009
1:57 pm
You Yids are deploying the same tired attempts at marginalization, and ” thought control”, via your trite, cliched slurs of “hate” and bigot/racist” etc. – but none of you address my charges. My factual, accurate, historic charges.
None of you ever really deny Jew criminality – you do what you always do, and attempt to swerve. Create distractions. Mis-direct. You are too proud of your evil to ever really deny or denounce it.
Your strategy is growing less effective by the minute.
Josef pretends to answer my charges, because he may have convinced himself that he IS doing so, But all you do, Josef, is put out meaningless JewSpew, as your genetics dictate. A lot of Kosher sound and fury, signifying nothing. Simply because you have yellow hair and blue eyes does not make you an Aryan. You are merely a lighter variant of the Khazar (if your description is accurate. Who knows? Who cares?). Race is in the DNA. You cannot change that fact. Not now. Not ever. Your Tribe has tricked a lot of people – but genetics will out, in the end. The facade is cracking already.
And the Askenazi did try to kill off as many Sephardi, after WWII. (and a Sepharid recentyl called for the Sephardi to purge and kill the Ashkenazi, in IsraH#ll, to retunr the favor. I read Haaretz.. Do you?) You are either wholy ignorant, or a liar. Possibly both – likely both – as your utter inversion of events in Hungary indicate. THEY want YOU out. They are working on Big Old Joo Azz Boot #110.
Oh – did your compimentin’ Goy know they were eating off differnet plates? What cute little story did you tell ‘em? Just curious. You Yids are so very clever in your fabrications.
And you have failed (hhhmmmm) to satisfy my curiosity about your reactions to Toaff’s “Blood Passover” opus, yet. Why?
NotNormal – Josef just marekd and tagged you as his pathetic, servile Shabbos Goy slave, and you are too ignorant to even know it, and too self-deluded to care. He thinks uou are a moron, NotNormal. I wonder if you will ever possess the courage to educate yourself, and to wake up.If you ever do – great! If not – no loss. You are dead wieght, and obstructive and dangerous to Whites. Good riddance if your Masters chew you up and spit you out.
As far as my “ideological cant” – I’m simply coverng a LOT of ground. FAST.
And a Jew slurring a any-one as a “racist” is the funniest and most ironic thing EVER – snce “Judaism” is a religion based on Race, bloodlines mono-maniacal obsession with ethnic identification, and self-worship.
For the rest of you – your crude attempts at insulting me simply prove my every point. Your grotesque, heinous “religion” amd your Satanic Bible the Talmud characterizes all Gentiles AS beats, and lesser, inhuman beings. So your words simply “live the cliche”
Denise Barber
August 30th, 2009
2:00 pm
AngryMandingo- yes – a “black hemorrhoid” . Yup. That’s a very clear and accurate self-characterization.
Normal
August 30th, 2009
2:08 pm
Debbie, don’t bother baiting me. Your kind of person does not have anything for me and your name calling just marks you as sad.. I will tell you one thing though, I feel sorry for you. I can see that somewhere life has slapped you down hard. All I can say is get over it and you’ll feel better. Oh, and before you start again…Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
BTW, Judging by what I am reading from you, I would rather be a slave of Josef’s than a friend of you. Jus’ sayin’
Denise Barber
August 30th, 2009
2:12 pm
Jay, dear bubbelah – re: “ideological cant” – considering every word you write – yup. You know from ideological cant. Inside out.
josef nix
August 30th, 2009
3:15 pm
Debbie–and a cheery Christian Sabbath to you, too! Well, I’ve got the bait and you’ve got the hooks, but I’m just going to have to be selective since even this can doesn’t have enough worms to get to them all.
I’ve told you, I’m not a YID. Now if you’d like we can go into Ladino here, since I do know a little, but, well our name for ourselves never really entered into the daily lexicon as a pejorative. Nope, no Khazars here, Western European since the time of Charlemagne. While my papers wouldn’t pass your Nurnberg muster, I do have them back that far and, yes, there have been enough despoiled by choice shaygets and shiksas along the way to give me my Paul Newman eyes and hair.
JewSpew–ooh, I like that one! I’ll even add it to my own lexicon. And genetics and DNA? Ooh, so I’m not really responsible. I’m a birth defect? And all this time I thought I was just a jacka** of my own making. Too much of that pride, I guess.
I’m glad to see you’re so widely read. I’ve got you one from Hungary that would really give you grist for your mill, but I’ve already caused enough stink with it getting me threats from some of my fellow Hebes that would make you quake in awe.
Oh, the Pesach china–that you should ask about the “funny little story!” Some of them have been in the family for generations and among them are some that Great-Granny was able to hold onto during the Judah Benjamin inspired wah-uh when your good General Grant’s General Order # 11 (check that one out. You’ll find you a new hero here!) was in effect and her servile neighbors refused to “turn her in.”
Since I don’t keep kosher in the strictest sense, making me ever-so-popular among my my orthodox tribesmen, I’ve no need of a Shabbas goy. Oh, yes, bubbaleh? Well, Normal ain’t me grandpappy, but given what he knows of Granddaddy, I think he might be flattered you’d think so. As for chewing him up and spitting him out, he’d be a bit gamey, though I do hear tell he tastes like chicken.
So, Gentiles are “beats?” Okay, Norm, “…turn the beat around, got to hear percussion…”
So, how do you know ABM is Mandingo? I had always assumed that he was Ibu given the migration patterns of his ancestors. Sorry, ABM, but you know you are a “pain in the posterior” to a lot of folks!
Jay, dear Bubbaleh, are you my granddaddy on the other side? You’d probably like him. He was an incorrigible ole coot who slaughtered poor helpless little clams for the amusement of his friends, too.
So, Norm, lift that barge and tote that bale, cain’t git ABM to do it no more!
Well, thanks for the entertainment…I always wondered what I would have said when Hitler was “on the rise.” Well, now I know…
Kamchak
August 30th, 2009
3:30 pm
I retract my comments about sows and boars and sincerely apologize to all porcine creatures that I have offended.
josef nix
August 30th, 2009
3:47 pm
K’Chak–on behalf of the chazerim if not the Khazarim, apologies accepted, Toadie!
Angry Black Man
August 30th, 2009
8:19 pm
Josef & Normal
You know there’s a rule here about feeding the trolls. You don’t feed them after midnight.
And Denise,
I’m sure you’re just the epitome of perfection. Well, at least in your own little world. Throwing insults only makes you look childish. If you can’t refer to me by my screen name, don’t refer to me at all. I have not once said anything cross about you or your people. It’s a D@mn shame if you’re representative of the women that’s available. No wonder men are either gay or in prison.
josef nix
August 30th, 2009
9:52 pm
ABM–not yet 10 p.m. EDT! Who ARE her people? But the time tripping this weekend has been an experience. Babylon 5 back to the 1930s, back to Babylon 5, back to the 1930s, of course with stops c 1960 with our other friends! Oh, well, it’s back to the present in the a.m. Have a good one!
c.j.
August 31st, 2009
8:22 am
I guess I won’t make any mayoral decisions about my vote, until Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson get to the bottom of this whole thing. This must be a conspiracy by the Bush Administration to systematically turnover racial mayoral control of all “Chocolate” cities in order to begin the demise of the Obama Presidency.
Constructive Feedback
August 31st, 2009
9:22 am
Mr Bookman:
Despite your attempt to show an even hand in the face of Black Racialism – you instead show your bias.
You know as well as I do (and I am a Black man – for the record) that if this type of memo was released from a WHITE group that you, Cynthia Tucker and Mike Luckovitch would take turn in blasting the group out of the water.
You WOULD NOT find a Black group who did the same thing and thus try to argue for balanced consideration – as this submission by you attempted.
Sometimes its best to call out the scoundrels and repudiate their actions in a stand alone basis.
hryder
August 31st, 2009
9:44 am
Racism, liberal guilt, idealist aura, are a few of the underlying reasons for electing our current incompetent in the Oval Office. The Big O never did really commit to anything but being elected and the ever nebulous “change”. Now we are stuck with an incompetent chief executive who truely believes he is more competent and knowledgable than his detractors. Winning elections has been his forte. He is a novice at governing and has displayed a few major failures. He was elected to be President not king, change was desired in a few areas, not rolling out a new model with so many features that NO ONE person could comprehend its purpose or how it operated, and being totally oblivious to any economic realities. CONGRESS, ALL SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES, SIT ON YOUR HANDS AND ALLOW THE BIG O TO DANGLE IN THE WIND. If not, you should resign or expect to be out of office when the next election for your current seat occurs.
josef nix
August 31st, 2009
4:12 pm
Enter your comments here
Constructive–and you can bet Luckovich would have a Cross of St Andrew in there somewhere!
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September 8th, 2009
10:18 am
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