Washington may have just weighed in on Georgia’s Democratic race for governor
Former Gov. Roy Barnes makes a point about changing the state flag. Bob Andres/bandres@ajc.com
We’ll pick through Roy Barnes press conference later — my AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin already has an extensive account up at Gold Dome Live.
Reaction to Barnes’ entry into the 2010 race for governor has been largely predictable, among both Democratic rivals and Republicans. We’ll get to the bulk of those as well.
But first, the eye-opener from the Democratic Governors Association in Washington.
The DGA, which potentially could funnel significant funds into Georgia’s 2010 race for governor, issued a gushing press release this afternoon:
“Roy has the right vision to look forward, restore the values that Georgians grew up with and improve the lives of all Georgians throughout the state,” said Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, chairman of the DGA. “Roy has the knowledge and character to get rid of the special interest influence that’s rampant at the Capitol and get the economy moving again. His campaign will strengthen a healthy Democratic field.”
Barnes’ entry into the race makes Georgia a high-level pick-up opportunity, as recent polling shows him in a dead heat with and even overtaking the leading Republicans.
Needless to say, the DGA issued no such statements when House Minority Leader Dubose Porter, Attorney General Thurbert Baker, or former National Guard commander David Poythress joined the contest.
One could argue that the DGA is simply talking sweet about a former colleague and club member. But one could also argue that some Democrats in Washington have already placed their chips on a particular square.
On the same note, Congressional Quarterly just moved an assessment of Barnes’ candidacy that includes this:
Barnes’ entry to the race has prompted CQ Politics to change the rating of the race from “Republican Favored” to the less-certain rating of “Leans Republican.” Barnes’ statewide name recognition and experience makes him the instant front-runner for his party’s nomination and the biggest potential threat to Republicans at this early stage in the contest.
Republicans paid Barnes a compliment as well. Within hours of his announcement, the state GOP sent out a fund-raising e-mail centered on the prospects of a Barnes comeback.
“King Roy as Governor? Again?” was the headline.
Two of Barnes’ three rivals in the Democratic primary struck a calm, sober tone in their official reactions. Remember that Democrats see a rare chance in the 2010 race and aren’t eager to repeat the Cox-Taylor cannibalism of 2006. That means they must convince Democratic voters that a substantive but tough dialogue — for that’s what it might take to dislodge Barnes — is not just safe, but healthy.
DuBose Porter, the House minority leader and newspaper publisher down in Dublin, struck the most conciliatory tone — but even his statement had some edge:
“I am not running against Roy or any other candidate, I am running for Georgia…. For 27 years, and as House Democratic leader, I have worked to bring people and policy together to drive projects forward. Bringing people together creates working solutions. That is my leadership style. It is what Georgia needs and separates me from the other candidates in this race and why I will win the primary.”
Attorney General Thurbert Baker had a similar message:
Georgia voters – Democrat, Republican, and Independent – want a governor they can trust to deliver results and not just make more promises. They want and deserve a governor focused on leading Georgia into the future, not refighting the fights of the past. We look forward to a serious and substantive debate among all candidates for Governor….
Of the three Democrats, David Poythress, former commander of the Georgia National Guard, was the most confrontational:
Regardless of how people choose to express it, Roy Barnes is a polarizing figure in Georgia politics. Folks either love him or despise him.
Many have predicted his campaign will reopen the old wounds such as the flag controversy, disgruntled teachers, the King Roy “rat” commercial, his stunning loss to Sonny Perdue and the wreckage it left behind for the Democratic Party. Most Democratic voters understand that these realities will fatally damage his ability to win in the General Election.
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Will Jones - Atlanta
June 3rd, 2009
4:57 pm
The Roman Catholic governor of Montana wants to tell voters in Georgia who’s best as governor?
Fed Pyramid inductee Roy Barnes is Rome’s “man” to keep the Gay Old Pervert ball rolling after Bush and Cheney committed 9/11 and ruined the “Republican” brand of the bi-partisan false elite’s Demublican/Republicrat front for fascist plutocracy and the People’s enslavement.
Max Cleland bucked the “system” by rejecting the 9/11 Commission fraud.
Let’s we, the righteous of Georgia, make American Hero Max Cleland Our Governor instead of draft-dodger and co-opted Mammon-worshipper Roy Barnes.
The divide in America is between The People and the Fascist Plutocracy. Barnes’ grabbing the “Golden Apple” of Big Banks’ payoff making him rich while “serving” Georgia proves he’s corrupt. Max is righteous and so must We be, by “Annuit Coeptis.”
May Georgia lead America back to the Path of Righteousness again, Amen.
Teacher
June 3rd, 2009
5:32 pm
Just remember…you tick the teachers off in this state and you will have no way of winning. Everyone South of Macon knows how King Roy plays ball and doesnt include South Georgia on its share of the pie.
OPTIMISTIC
June 3rd, 2009
5:51 pm
so all the democratic candidates should save their qualifying fee and go play some golf. It’s over! However, let’s just think about this. The democratic electorate in Georgia haven’t weighed in about this race. Only die hard activists, local and national elected officials and the media are really paying attention to an election that is more than one year away. For goodness sakes, a person running for 2010 doesn’t qualfiy until April of next year. Anything can happen in one year–Dubose Porter may realize he didn’t do anything while in the legislature, so why pretend and run for Governor. David Poythress may find out he’s just too nice to be an elected official, Thurbert Baker may shock us all and go bald and Roy Barnes may find out Georgians Are Just Not Into Him! Democrats hold on to your seats–It’s going to be a bumpy ride to November 2010.
Wall Fly
June 3rd, 2009
5:53 pm
True enough, Teacher. The challenge, though, is having a sufficient number of teacher-influenced votes to make a difference in a statewide race. The state populations south of Macon continues to lose strength.
Money will play a larger part this election cycle. Fewer people in this economy have extra dollars for contributions. I believe Georgia’s black voters continue to hold the key in the Democratic primary race.
herbK
June 3rd, 2009
6:04 pm
“Will Jones – Atlanta – May Georgia lead America back to the Path of Righteousness again, Amen.”
Once walking morons like will here understands how NO ONE with a functioning brain gives any support to idiots like max cleland or roy barnes, the better off we will be. This is the same garbage as we have now. Purdue is a total turd. Barnes was the same. We are rehashing the same s**t each and every fricking election, and the morons buy it. They eat it up. Why? Media and marketing. Yet people don’t care. This state sucks, from the political perspective to the ‘freedom’ perspective. No, I won’t leave it until I get better, more responsive government for the $$ paid. Too many idiots either don’t get involved nor care.
Matilda
June 3rd, 2009
6:11 pm
I met a teacher at a party last fall, and asked how it’s going. She has too many students for the grade (K I believe). She has special needs students (likely autistic) whom she admits she’s neither qualified to help, nor has the time to devote to them individually, so they’re not learning. She has to dig into her own pockets to make up for lacking basic resources. She has no support from her school system to remedy the obvious shortfalls. She supports herself and a child on $31K a year. I mentioned my involvement with a state-level campaign for a candidate focused on replacing the money the current crop of do-nothing-rights under the Dome stripped from education. She replied, “Oh, no, I’m a Republican” in a sniffy sort of way. Uh-huh. How’s that working for you, Teach? Feelin’ the love? Where exactly does Georgia rank educationally? When was the last time a Democrat had any control over anything in this state? This woman had no idea who represented her at the state level or what they actually voted for or against. Uh-huh.
Cynthia Tucker McKinney
June 3rd, 2009
6:14 pm
Hey Big Jim, it is hump day and I checked to see if you had posted this weeks hit on Palin and to watch whatever Youtube/SNL video you posted. Dude, are you slippin’?
TANSTAAFL
June 3rd, 2009
6:20 pm
Well the calculators are humming over here at the secret underground Libertarian Command Center (LCC) as we try to come up with an estimate of what the Governorship of Georgia is gonna cost in 2010. Half the crew wants to utilize a deprecation/barter model, the other half is gung ho for hyper inflation. We’ve heard that any candidate for the job better have 10 to 12 million in the old campaign kitty if he expects to taken seriously. After Nathan “Sparky” Deal raised $535,000 in one night, Roy “Stinky” Barnes had better start kissing up to the DGA for some offset funding. And both sides should take a long hard look at the 2008 US Senate race here in Georgia and whatever their consultants/pollsters/handlers tell them they need, they would be wise to double it because there will be a run-off in the Governors race in 2010. Remember, vote early, vote often, vote Libertarian! Vote John Monds for Governor in 2010!
Wall Fly
June 3rd, 2009
6:29 pm
deprecation/barter model? How do you weight dollar value for deprecation in the model? If you can think of only one way to spell something, you’re not very creative!
The AMAZING GodHatesTrash, Superstar
June 3rd, 2009
6:35 pm
Oh come on. How can Barnes get the people of Georgia to walk on their hindlegs?
It is a state full of knuckle-dragging trash, it will elect knuckle-dragging trash. Barnes’ chances are slim to none.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 3rd, 2009
6:46 pm
Addressing, at some level, Bush’s having done 9/11, is the “sine qua non” of American politics.
“HerbK” thinks Cleland’s “an idiot?” Why? Because he suited up as an Army Officer and won a Silver Star and got three of his limbs blown off in Vietnam?
Max Cleland was the only one of the 9/11 Commissioners with the “stones” and the brains to recognize it was a fraud, and resign from it.
We all know Bush and Cheney committed 9/11. Cleland actually did something about it.
Georgians are good and decent, strong American Patriots who know the draft-dodging scum from both parties have sold them a corrupt bull of goods.
Cleland is Georgia stock with integrity and doesn’t want the job of governor: a first qualification for the position by the People’s election…unlike the groveling, contemptible philistines who grasp for the job to allay their fears that they’ll be recognized for the Mammon-worshipping losers they are.
“Georgians” who want a Roman Catholic to tell us who should be the next Democratic governor of Georgia are the same crowd who welcomed Sherman with open arms in Savannah: papists.
Max Cleland is a true American and great Georgian. We need him to be governor.
Let’s make Max Cleland elect as Governor of Georgia!
Will Jones is an Eejit
June 3rd, 2009
8:53 pm
I am a liberal and I shudder to think that anyone here would think he is one of us. We don’t claim him as “one of ours,” y’all.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 3rd, 2009
10:20 pm
So you think you can be “liberal” and support the geo-political socio-economic “engine for enslaving mankind” America’s Founder identified as “the real Anti-Christ?”
You want Bush and Cheney to get away with 9/11?
You think G-d wants the grand-daughter of one of those who lynched Leo Frank to be back in Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion? Perhaps in her case the sins of the fathers are NOT visited on the children to the third and fourth generation?
Big Money wants Barnes in office as a back-up to the Gay Old Perverts we all know are scum. Big Money runs both parties but on margin Obama is one of The People, but brilliant, knowing full well what’s going on.
Georgia needs to help him out by recognizing the People’s power to keep pushing against corruption “to cast the Beast into the Pit.”
Barnes is scum. Dodged Vietnam by going to law school yet never sought justice for our dead of Vietnam, victims of the same treasonous faction who enriched him by anointing him with riches in the unconstitutional fiat money Federal Reserve Pyramid John Kennedy was killed for removing from our money supply.
The corrupt rich want Barnes in office again…as they know he is fully compromised and no man and no patriot.
Max Cleland is a man and a patriot: he is of Georgia’s finest having quit the 9/11 Commission rather than to sully his honor by being a part of its cover-up of Bush’s and Cheney’s manifest treason.
Awake Georgia! Now it the time to recall our forefathers’ fight at Bloody Marsh. The Enemy is the same that wants our freedoms dead: the Roman Anti-Christ. It was Spanish soldiers then, Rome’s frontmen now.
The liberal path is a direct threat to the Old Sectarian Order of king and pope we came and built this bastion, America, to escape.
Any as yet unconvinced that treason is afoot and unmentioned by Barnes or any of Bush’s accomplices in the Gay Old Pervert party, read “The New Pearl Harbor,” by PhD, Emeritus Professor David Ray Griffin. It is a free download now on Google Scholar.
Let us turn to “Annuit Coeptis” and honor Our Creed.
Truth and Justice must rule alone with the People sovereign in America.
Treason must not be allowed to prosper.
Cleland has made a public move to lead us to the righteous path: Death for Treason – Bush and Cheney must hang. Those who differ are not American, they are Rome’s “Fifth Column.”
12Gauge
June 4th, 2009
12:22 am
Let me understand this….you didn’t vote for McCain because he was a Vietnam Vet…..yet we’re supposed to vote for Cleland because he IS a Vietnam Vet? And you think you’ve got the monopoly on sanity & intelligence. So far with your postings all I’ve seen are trite conspiracy theories and blathering about things that you obviously don’t know page one about. Stooge would be an insult to all other stooges.
I’m no Barnes supporter, far from it, but I see Cleland as more of the tired old same that the Dumocratic Party trots out every election…..just as the largely crummy choices from the Republicrats. Both parties are left of center tho’ the Reps are just a little to the right of the Dums. Neither party nor much of anyone in Washington or even our own General Assembly is anything close to what the Founding Fathers wanted or setup this nation to be.
They wanted limited government with a narrow focus of powers over protecting our nation and giving it stability within. We now have a federal government that is running amok and is rapidly making us all knuckle under to the Granny State……..
SB
ladyliberty
June 4th, 2009
1:42 am
Enjoyed the TANSTAAFL post.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 4th, 2009
7:14 am
Bush and Cheney committed 9/11. Those who know this and do nothing about it are committing Misprision of Treason. “The New Pearl Harbor,” Griffin, PhD, is now a patriotically donated free pdf file download for every thinking American to know the truth.
Max Cleland, who had the guts and honor to serve with 9.2 million other Americans during Vietnam, yet has the integrity to quit the 9/11 Commission after having been issued “The New Pearl Harbor.” Perhaps he actually read it.
All of us must, too.
Constitutional Law professor Obama, in the White House, is but a good start on rectifying the damage done.
We, the People, must reassert Our Sovereignty and do Righteousness by getting “out in front” of Obama.
Focus on the Treason and help bring it to Justice. Ignoring it is ignoring a soon to metastasize cancer.
Death for Treason that America might Live!
Turd Ferguson
June 4th, 2009
7:21 am
Cleland is a liberal idiot and Barnes wears too much lipstick.
Jim Callihan
June 4th, 2009
8:14 am
With the “House of Acorn” getting rattled and impending investigations looming in the coming months, I wouldn’t put too much faith in the DGA, nor their corrupt and illegal campaign machine (ACORN). Even though Eric Holder is every bit as corrupt as John Ashcroft was, maybe even moreso (see recent DOJ intervention/dismissals with “State” cases) the fact that ACORN and it’s money-shell company (CCI) cannot escape the reaches of the State of Louisianna’s AG – does not bode well.
“PURPLE STATE” IS RISING UP! (registered independent voters expected to topple 50% before 2010 elections).
STOP THE MACHINES!
(here’s a reminder: http://bailout.propublica.org/main/list/index )
Secular Progressive
June 4th, 2009
9:08 am
Former Governor Barnes has the vision and wisdom to lead the State of Georgia out of the morass that has been created by Bubba Perdue. Georgia deserves to be recognized as a progressive state that plays an important role in the United States of America. We need a governor like Barnes who wants to eliminate symbols of the past (the Confederate battle flag) and focus on fiscally prudent investments in the issues of the future that are imporatant to all, education and transportation among others, with the resulting boost to the economy.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 4th, 2009
9:29 am
Barnes is a draft-dodger who sold out to the banking interests when he let them enrich him with bank stock while he was serving in the Georgia Legislature overseeing the banking industry.
Max Cleland is a Georgian who knows the difference between right and wrong and quit the 9/11 Commission when it became obvious to him that it was a sham.
Bush and Cheney committed 9/11 and is the same cancer that saw Bush’s father kill JFK and his grandfather finance Hitler for Vatican banker Rockefeller and the Roman Anti-Christ.
Those with the Spirit of Truth in them know this is true. It is We who must cast the Beast into the Pit by rejecting Rome’s frontmen like sold-out Barnes and the rest of the Gay Old Perverts.
Cleland for Governor…in part because he doesn’t want the job. The grasping scum who crave it prove themselves unworthy of the People.
Will Jones is an Eejit
June 4th, 2009
10:43 am
I am a liberal and I shudder to think that anyone here would think he is one of us. We don’t claim him as “one of ours,” y’all.
ADDENDUM:
1. Simply opposing neocons does not a liberal make.
2. Twisting “history” to one’s own ends does not a liberal make.
3. Regurgitating 9/10 of the Klan’s raisons d’être but refusing to vote Republican does not a liberal make.
4. Preaching homophobia does not a liberal make.
5. Preaching religiously motivated hatred does not a liberal make.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 4th, 2009
1:08 pm
Not too “liberal” with your own name, are you?
12Gauge
June 4th, 2009
2:00 pm
Why don’t you tell us (Mr Jones) just exactly how Max received his injuries in Vietnam!!!! It certainly wasn’t in battle, not even as John “flip-flop” Kerry received.
All one has to do is look at Max’s Voting Record and it’s enough to oust him from any ballot. Tax & Spend contributes to large deficits and demoralizes the People. I will not Vote for any person that will RubberStamp our current President…..much as All those who Voted for his Spending Program without reading a single page.
The people in Washington DC are supremely arrogant and intolerant of their own constituents. This needs to change. Federal Government needs to be reduced back to the levels that they were set up to be by our Founding Fathers.
SB * BTW, I’m known in many, many circles by my Screen-name…..
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 4th, 2009
2:31 pm
When, and in what branch, did you serve the Constitution and the People, under arms, “12Gauge?”
Senator Cleland’s Silver Star citation is available for all to read on-line and has been previously posted on this blog.
Bush and Cheney committed 9/11. Focus on this fact and know America’s posterity and G-d’s blessings will be apportioned to us as a function of the People’s conduct toward it.
Righteousness must rule in America that G-d not spit us out.
Death for Treason
12Gauge
June 4th, 2009
9:05 pm
US Navy 1970-1974
Police Officer – in Georgia – 1974 – 2001
Nuff said….
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 4th, 2009
11:32 pm
So what’d you get your Silver Star for, Squid?
12Gauge
June 5th, 2009
2:04 am
Insults are not worth responding to…if you can’t discuss things intelligently WITH PROOF then it is pointless to continue. What I went thru either in the service or during a career in law enforcement is none of your business. Let’s just say, like 100’s of thousands of other service people I earned my Honorable Discharge and I served in police work without ever taking a dime or being demoted or ever being suspended. I know many that cannot say that.
This was not a comparison between Max & me, for you to try to do so belittles the entire situation. The question is….is Max Cleland qualified to serve in any capacity to represent the people & citizens of Georgia. In my opinion, he is not. I have my reasons and they are based on facts, the facts of his obvious voting record and being another stooge of the Democratic Party which does not serve the people but rather serves their own interest in staying in power.
Your insane suppositions that Bush & Cheney made 9/11, besmirches the memory of all those killed in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon & in Pennsylvania. I lost many brother & sister officers that day. I will not stand silent for you to claim something that you have no proof to the contrary.
Continue to have your own myopic look at life, it won’t change my mind or opinion. I will say it is people like you that have put this country in the quandary that we are in today. Rather than standing up for what is good & right, you choose to sit & moan the dilemma of things you perceive as wrong, spout inane & senseless conspiracy theories & denigrate people that disagree with you.
I am not running for office so there is absolutely no reason to compare Cleland with me.
Let me ask you….Are you a Member of ACORN or one of it’s some 260+ sub-organizations or groups?
If the answer is Yes, you need not say any more, your bias is more than blatant. If it is not, did you try to join and they found that you were just too insane for them to allow you in the door?
Enough then…..
SB
12Gauge
June 5th, 2009
2:07 am
One more point, Even the Devil can quote Scripture…..
SB
Kendric6382
June 5th, 2009
3:04 am
Even though the race is in 2010 the A/A needs to start reading as much up to date information as possible on all the canidates,remember what Janet said what have you done for me lately.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 5th, 2009
7:18 am
Did going into Law Enforcement convince you that you really could have been a soldier or Marine during Vietnam?
The book is “The New Pearl Harbor,” Detective. Can’t be bothered to discover the sectarian, fascist faction you threw in with committed Treason?
Here “Law Enforcer” is the link so you don’t have to bother with that much police work to find the culprit: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/hankramey/The%20New%20Pearl%20Harbor.pdf
Bush and Cheney committed 9/11. The author is one of proven integrity…just like Max proved his integrity after he read it and quit the 9/11 Commission cover-up.
I have near kin fascists just like you who think they’re so right they are only “offended” by suggestions that the actual evidence of their faction’s treason can be witnessed by any thinking patriot…but I guess that’s redundant. If one doesn’t think one can’t be a patriot.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 5th, 2009
9:17 am
Don’t care to respond to the offered incontrovertible PROOF of Bush’s and Cheney’s Treason?
WWill Jones is an eejit
June 5th, 2009
9:28 am
Someone needs to get some treatment for his dementia.
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 5th, 2009
12:03 pm
All you gotta do is click on a free pdf download and read a free book, millions of copies of which have already been sold, by a distinguished American scholar of proven integrity, to know the draft-dodging closet-queen, cheated into the White House by only the Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court, whose father killed Kennedy and King and whose grandfather was Hitler’s banker for Rockefeller and the Roman Anti-Christ, committed 9/11…and know this as a moral absolute beyond any reasonable doubt…and you won’t do it. And it’s an easy read, for anyone with above a fourth-grade reading level.
And all you’ve got is ad hominem.
The Curse causeless shall not come, but America will recover, and cast the Beast into the Pit, without your help anyway.
Max Cleland, a true Georgian and American Patriot, for Governor!
12Gauge
June 5th, 2009
2:22 pm
Some people have the incurable disease of myopia & insanity combined with an ingrained sense of oneupmanship & religion and with the idea of never being wrong no matter what any one else says.
The onus of proof is on you to PROVE that Bush & Cheney pulled off 9/11, not pull references from hacks & conspiracy-theorists and supplicating your assertions with Scripture in an attempt to make it all logical & true.
But since you choose to bring Bush & Cheney into a discussion about Max Cleland, it only proves that you are another one that wants to obfuscate the subject with obscure suggestions & arguements that are intended to confuse the average person or to fool the gullible into believing you speak the truth.
You belittle what you don’t know and you don’t argue facts but attack the messenger. You know nothing of my service & that’s fine, the fact that you know nothing but choose to attack my history with no knowledge shows that you are willing to tangent any argument or discussion. Which also shows anyone reading your posts that you are using faulty reasoning to attack persons that you don’t know and thus prove the point of not listening to anything you have to say. You, in effect, marginalize your own arguments.
I will not respond to you any further. One is told to never argue with pigs…because you never win, the pigs love it and all you accomplish is getting filthy dirty. Good advice!
Good luck in your cause, may you live to regret what you believe!
SB
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 5th, 2009
3:52 pm
Do I regret that Bush and Cheney committed 9/11? Of course.
Do I regret that Bush’s father killed John Kennedy to send 58,000 of us to die for the pope in Vietnam? Of course.
Do I regret that Bush’s grandfather financed the rise of Hitler, whom a number of my cousins and uncles died fighting? Of course.
Do I regret that the Bush’s have been fronting for the Vatican-banker Rockefellers since Standard Oil was built on unredressed murder and arson? Of course.
Do I regret that many of those who consider themselves Americans are ignorant of Our Founder’s proven prophetic wisdom, having identified Rome as “the real Anti-Christ” long before its “Fifth Column” accomplished all the above treasons against the Constitution I am sworn to protect from all enemies foreign and domestic? Of course.
Do I regret that fakers and non-men prance around trying to convince others they have a brain yet are unwilling to click on the offered proof by an American scholar of tested and proven integrity: which inarguably proves that Bush and Cheney committed 9/11? Of course.
So I already have lived to regret what I believe. And to think our tax dollars are paying you in retirement yet you feel zero moral obligation to examine the proof offered of the treasons committed by a pair of draft-dodging closet-queens. Why? Because such scum as they make you actually think you’re a man?
No brain. No soul. No patriotism. No man.
herbK
June 7th, 2009
6:53 am
Will on these two:
“Do I regret that Bush’s grandfather financed the rise of Hitler, whom a number of my cousins and uncles died fighting? Of course.
Do I regret that the Bush’s have been fronting for the Vatican-banker Rockefellers since Standard Oil was built on unredressed murder and arson? Of course”
I agree, but rest shows what a whack job you are. Bush/cheney probably did cause 9/11, but it’s over with, towers down, dead bodies burned or buried (if they were lucky). Of course government will attack it’s own people, thats why more militants exist today.
Go get a 40oz and get over it.
Will Jones
June 7th, 2009
6:35 pm
Truth, Justice and the American Way, herbK: Welcome to Our Country. In which country or culture were you formerly a slave or a slave-master? Perhaps you’re from some Mobtown or neighborhood where Rome’s Fifth Column rules.
Atlanta and Georgia is true America.
In America we “get a rope.” You may think others are better than you for any of a number of bad reasons, but true Americans, living by The Creed bequeathed to all who would be one of us by The Founders’ anointing, are servants only to The Creator.
G-d requires Justice and Truth. There is no Statute of Limitations on Treason and Bush and Cheney must die for what they have done to America.
Go back to your own country, do not poison ours…the Anti-Christ is soon to be cast into the Pit by the American People. Some many not of us will be sliding down with the Beast. Look to your own interests.
Death for Treason
PeacheyKeen
June 8th, 2009
9:49 pm
BLACK LEADERS cannot in good conscience support Thurbert Baker. Although he is Black, his “Anti-Black” stances over the years, cannot be erased nor forgotten. Now, Thurbert wants the Black vote? And, Blacks either have a “short memory” or are just plain dumb. The African-American community will not support Thurbert Baker just because he is black…Baker is just another Clarence Thomas…perhaps because he is so vocal and so visable…he is much worse. No Thurbert No TOMS for Georgia!
Pat
November 22nd, 2009
9:33 am
After the Fed’s bailout of banks, any Governor not wondering how many shell companies are operating in his state can’t have the best interests of his resident citizens in mind. The bail out proves that throwing enough money at something won’t cure the problem, but will surely disguise it long enough to create the pretense of doing so.
States need a corporate shell census to know who is operating in their states, where they arise from (friend or foe, domestic or foreign), and how, or if, they are capitalized sufficiently to be able to call themselves a company under the contemplated commerce of the State charters they register. If any Governor claims to have 5,000 businesses registered with the state, but only 1,000 of them are “real” in the sense of hiring entities that can produce legitimate taxes, the state is operating upon the principal of the bail out defending fictitious companies that don’t really exist, and that people are hoping to get jobs at. Giving tax credits to fictititous industries for operating in the state is fraud upon the state, pure and simple.
In today’s business climate, and in today’s out-sourcing, finding a legitimate business with operating domestic employees who also pay taxes is a bonus. Every state needs a commercial census to determine who’s real and who is a mere passive pass-through with registered status. By Commercial census in conjunction with the DOR and IRS, it is the only method of figuring out who is legitimate and who isn’t today, and what any Governor has to work with.