Oxendine gives us his assessment of Ga.’s intelligence
H.L. Mencken once observed that nobody ever went wrong underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
H.L. Mencken never met John Oxendine. And he certainly never saw this video just released by Oxendine’s campaign for governor.
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Daedalus
October 16th, 2009
10:24 am
After seeing this I’m convinced that Oxendine is the perfect GOP candidate for Governor of Georgia: petty and mean-spirited.
N-GA
October 16th, 2009
10:34 am
Looks more like a steer…..
Night Train
October 16th, 2009
10:40 am
Oxendine is in the same league as Cynthia McKinney, both are a joke!
professional skeptic
October 16th, 2009
10:42 am
Absolutely pathetic.
Taxpayer
October 16th, 2009
10:43 am
Well, Jay, I think he has the content down pat but my major concern is with the length. I think he should break it into four separate ads while incorporating the Reagan image into each. And, the art work is great, well within the grasp of any true conservative’s budget. That should do it.
Just sayin'
October 16th, 2009
10:46 am
Jay, don’t be so sure that Georgians are too smart to fall for this. Wasn’t it governor Perdoofus who created the “King Rat” theme? And didn’t it work?
stands for decibels
October 16th, 2009
10:48 am
And, the art work is great, well within the grasp of any true conservative’s budget.
It is amazing what a middle-schooler can do with Mom’s pirated copy of Flash.
Marsh
October 16th, 2009
10:48 am
Smoxendine… Isn’t he a member of Mensa?
Dusty
October 16th, 2009
10:48 am
This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in politics. SuperOX and the Dirty Rat!! If Oxendine doesn’t get to be governor, he should try Saturday Night Live. I think I will put this to music: Foxy Oxy and the Nasty Ratzy!! It will be a Big Hit!!! Please send your $$$ontritutions to Foxy Oxy so we can get production going. Free T-shirt to all those millions of Foxy Oxy followers and contributors…Thank you. Now eat your oats!!
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
October 16th, 2009
10:49 am
The piece employs “rat” as a metaphor for Barnes and “ox” as a metaphor for Oxendine. I use “bs” as a metaphor for that commercial. Why can’t we get good conservatives like Palin, Liz Cheney, Jindahl, Michelle Bachman, or Ralph Reed to run for office?
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
10:52 am
could someone please translate for those of us who are in a video-hostile environment???
Taxpayer
October 16th, 2009
10:57 am
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
10:52 am
could someone please translate for those of us who are in a video-hostile environment???
Oohh! Purrrrdy pictures. Big bad rat. Happy cow, I mean, bull, I mean, Ox. Rat-Bad. Ox-Gooooood. Oooohhhh! Reagan-Gooder.
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
October 16th, 2009
10:58 am
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
10:52 am
You’d have a more video friendly environment were your government not bleeding its businesses dry to pay for Obama style socialized medicine.
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
10:59 am
Tax –
sounds like people reading the chinese astrological year descriptions on a restaurant placemat
SOUTHERN ATL
October 16th, 2009
10:59 am
It seems as if the OX is running scared EARLY!!!….Oxendine and his father have too much baggage to carry this state…after all WHO can be more aggressive than a RAT?? They will go through the WHOLE house and never be detected until after the damage is exposed!!! Why the attacks on Roy Barnes? Are there other Democratic candidates???
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
11:03 am
WBH –
“You’d have a more video friendly environment were your government not bleeding its businesses dry to pay for Obama style socialized medicine”
as difficult as this may be for you to understand – firewalls have nothing to do with what corporations pay in taxes.
but thanks for playing
(and for the chuckle)
Normal
October 16th, 2009
11:10 am
Dang it! I can’t pick up the video at work, pout, pout…
Taxpayer
October 16th, 2009
11:12 am
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
10:59 am
Tax –
sounds like people reading the chinese astrological year descriptions on a restaurant placemat
That is definitely a more succinct summary of the video. As a matter of fact, I wonder if he’s considered using one of those placemats. I’ll have to pass that on.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 16th, 2009
11:12 am
It needs a big finish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpnbyDT9-qA&feature=PlayList&p=3C3BB7D0D53F05E7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=34
getalife
October 16th, 2009
11:13 am
Enter your no comments here.
@@
October 16th, 2009
11:20 am
“The Ox” made a cow pie.
Betty
October 16th, 2009
11:21 am
The Ox, is here to continue to gore the people of the state of Georgia! No doubt, the OX will follow in the “ethical” footsteps of his father the judge, recently removed from the bench in Gwinnett for his behavior.
Ronnie's Raygun
October 16th, 2009
11:22 am
What papers. No one ever gave me any papers. Besides, what you gonna do about it. Fire me! Losers!
Bosch
October 16th, 2009
11:25 am
I didn’t make it past the annoying child.
USinUK,
Thanks for the link downstairs! I can’t wait until next summer!!!!
Gale
October 16th, 2009
11:25 am
Wylde Byll, I am right here in the USA and my company is vidio-hostile too. It is a matter of bandwidth for companies.
Nothing Is Free
October 16th, 2009
11:25 am
Great message. Bad presentation.
I notice that not a single poster had anything to say about the message.
But really . . . how hard is it to make Roy Barnes look bad?
stands for decibels
October 16th, 2009
11:26 am
The guy who created Flash is Gay.
Oxendine’s middle-school-aged relative created this cheezy video in a pirated copy of Flash.
Ergo, Oxendine is promoting the Gay Agenda. To middle-school-age children. Dressed as a pirate.
Dusty
October 16th, 2009
11:28 am
Well, I am truly inspired.
(USinUK, send your $$$ for FoxyOxy and we will send you our special video & T-shirt super dooper offer! Confederate $$ and wampum not acceptable. Gold nuggets OK.).
THEME SONG FOR FOXYOXY vs NASTY RATZY aka Roy the Rat
FoxyOxy, here we come,
Right back where we started from.
The pasture’s green, the RAT obscene.
The money market we do glean.
Come on now and join the herd.
Don’t sit there like a super nerd.
Get going! Send those buck$.
Help Oxy ovefcome Ratzy the clutz!!
CHORUS
Foxyoxy, here we come!
We got love for everyone!
————————
The END
Paul
October 16th, 2009
11:30 am
Jay
Georgia’s a beautiful state. But I guess the politics there is kind of a Yin-Yang thing. If you hadn’t told me this stuff you keep bringing up, I’d think someone had a seriously bent sense of humor.
Wyld
Sooner? You’re gonna be disappointed in a few hours –
Hey USinUK
jewcowboy finally made his return and informed us he and mr. jewcowboy just found a flat in Holland Park. People here keep mentioning meeting someplace in Atlanta… I’m thinking West End -
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
11:30 am
Bosch –
we’re number 7! we’re number 7! gooooooooooo Fabio!!! (although, if he doesn’t send Peter Crouch to S. Africa, I’ll be seriously steamed)
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
11:35 am
“Confederate $$ and wampum not acceptable. Gold nuggets OK”
man. some people are soooooooooooo picky!!
Paul –
“jewcowboy finally made his return and informed us he and mr. jewcowboy just found a flat in Holland Park. People here keep mentioning meeting someplace in Atlanta… I’m thinking West End ”
I’m happy to make all the arrangements … our first Book-Con (or would it be Jay-Con) … kinda like Dragon-Con, but with fewer people who live with their moms …
Marsh
October 16th, 2009
11:36 am
Dick? You ok?
http://www.ajc.com/business/halliburton-profits-slump-but-164286.html
RollerGirl
October 16th, 2009
11:37 am
King Roy the Rat underestimated the beloved nature of our 1956 flag. He learned you can piss off a majority of the people some of the time, but don’t count on re-election. I predict many house and senate dems and one narcissistic kenyan will learn the lesson soon.
I hope they take up comprehensive imigration reform/amnesrty next! Unite us, hussein , unite us! haha
Matilda
October 16th, 2009
11:39 am
Nothing is Free, I corrected your false assumption of me downstairs. As to the message on this video, um….. I can’t say that I’m impressed. Guess I’m just cynical after all these years, but that doesn’t inspire confidence. Can’t even say it’s a “nice try.”
Bosch
October 16th, 2009
11:40 am
USinUK,
Peter Crouch? Is that ten foot behemoth still playing? I like Crouch too, but I haven’t heard any news about the wonder giant lately. Dude, that guy is tall!
SOUTHERN ATL
October 16th, 2009
11:42 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oxendine
2009 Campaign finance controversy
In May 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Oxendine had received over $120,000, or eight percent of his total campaign contributions received,[23] in campaign contributions from 10 different political action committees in Alabama.[24] The newspaper reported all ten PACs donated to Oxendine the maximum contribution allowed by law;[25] that the PACs all had similar addresses and the same chairperson, the son of lawyer and businessman Donald V. Watkins; and that the money originated from two insurance companies based in Georgia, while state law prohibits companies from giving money to the campaigns of elected officials who regulate them.[23]
“It’s not like an oversight or I didn’t know what the law was,” Oxendine said. “We received it from completely different sources, and they are not common.” He added later, “I don’t want you to think we had the intent of doing anything inappropriate.”[26]
Once the suspiciousness was realized and brought to Oxendine’s attention, Oxendine immediately returned the funds to their donor awaiting a legal opinion.[27][28]
TnGelding
October 16th, 2009
11:44 am
Taxpayer
October 16th, 2009
10:43 am
I agree.
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
11:44 am
Bosch –
“I like Crouch too, but I haven’t heard any news about the wonder giant lately”
you haven’t ??? well, my friend, lay your peepers on THIS:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23756317-peter-crouch-has-to-prove-he-can-muscle-his-way-into-fabio-capellos-plan.do#
the man has been a scoring MO-SHEEN lately!!!
(although, at 6′7″, I’m really surprised they didn’t put him in as goalie)
Nothing Is Free
October 16th, 2009
11:44 am
Ronnie’s Raygun
Reagan won that election 489 electoral college votes to 49. Do you really think that Reagan having his notes made the difference?
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
11:45 am
Marsh –
“Dick? You ok?”
I always thought Dick Cheney was the answer to the musical question “war … good gawd … what is it good for?”
Dusty
October 16th, 2009
11:51 am
Oh……the applause is deafending but I must leave…..
PAUL out in cactus land,
Don’t be accusing our lovely Georgia politics of some Asia fluff ‘n’ stuff. We just make things interesting here, better than that snoozer mz Kay Bailey Hutchinfuss and Tex-Mex country politics. What you need is a good cartoon push (like Oxendines). Yes….
Bosch
October 16th, 2009
11:52 am
USinUK,
I’m glad to see Crouch is doing well. But dang it hurts me to watch him run. I don’t think he’ll make the cut though. And on a sadder note – Steven Gerrard AND Fernando Torres are hurt!!
Bosch
October 16th, 2009
11:53 am
Speaking of Texas politics –
Paul,
What’s up with your governor covering up the execution of an innocent guy? Wow. How does he sleep?
Ronnie's Raygun
October 16th, 2009
11:53 am
Nothing Is Free
October 16th, 2009
11:44 am
Ronnie’s Raygun
Reagan won that election 489 electoral college votes to 49. Do you really think that Reagan having his notes made the difference?
Being the fine outstanding conservative Christian family-valued apple-pie-American honest sincere morally incorruptible gentleman of honor that I am, I say to you, Sir, what papers. I never got any papers.
Paul
October 16th, 2009
11:54 am
Dusty
Okay, okay, no offense intended. Frankly, what I see here about Georgia politics isn’t all that far removed from Texas politics.
But we have Kinky Friedman running for governor!
I’m in one of my anarchist moods -
Paul
October 16th, 2009
11:55 am
Bosch
Don’t get me started…..
Bosch
October 16th, 2009
11:56 am
Paul,
Ya’ know that just makes me want to press the issue more. How’s Mrs. Paul?
SOUTHERN ATL
October 16th, 2009
11:57 am
Give it up “GEORGIA”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwCK5DRTPuo
USinUK
October 16th, 2009
11:57 am
Paul -
Kinky Friedman ALWAYS runs for governor (and I always cheer him on)
“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?”
“I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn’t hold ‘em under long enough.”
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
now, THAT’S a politician I can believe in!!!
Paul
October 16th, 2009
11:59 am
Bosch
It was in today’s paper – the guy executed for torching his house and killing his kids – his wife said her ex confessed to her in prison.
Be that as it may, it still does not excuse the conduct of the governor (for the rest of you, guy was convicted on testimony of some arson experts. A state board was looking into ‘expert testimony’ and was about to hold a hearing demonstrating the ‘experts’ who gave the ‘conclusions’ of ‘fact’ that led to the conviction were out to lunch. Just before the hearings the gov replaced most of the board. No hearings).
The gov was a cheerleader/yell leader in college. Sen Hutchison was a cheer leader. Kinky’s been having a good time weaving that into his evaluations -