A White House briefing on Isakson and (very separately) the Smyrna swastika
In the political world, if you’re being talked about in August, rarely is it a good thing.
The health care debate and Georgia continued to intersect this afternoon during a White House session between reporters and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. My AJC colleague Bob Keefe just sent a transcript.
We’ll take the last question first. It concerned the swastika spray-painted on the sign outside the office of U.S. Rep. David Scott. Reporters couldn’t overlook the fact that the Rev. Joseph Lowery, whom President Barack Obama had just awarded the Medal of Freedom, hails from (roughly) the same town.
Q: Robert, you know, you’re talking about people who were breaking barriers and things on the racial aspect. You’re talking about Sidney Poitier, Desmond Tutu, as well as Joseph Lowery today. But, you know, this health care debate has boiled down to, in some parts of the country, into a racial issue. Has the President gone into that matter, looked at it, has he talked about it, has he called David Scott, the swastika issue on his sign — David Scott has said, look, this was not meant — (inaudible) — for the President. What does the President….
Gibbs: I haven’t seen those comments. Look, I would say — I think I’ve said this here before — I don’t think there’s a single act or event that we are debating or discussing right now, or have for at least as long as my memory can go back, that should or could be compared to the tragedy of the Holocaust.
I think whenever that’s offered up into a public debate it is a sign that things have gotten, for those that enter into it, completely out of hand. It has absolutely no place in the dialogue that we’re having. We ought to be able to, as the President said, have conversations with one another, not over one another.
And the notion that we’re having a public policy debate at the end of a spray paint can on somebody’s sign I think is ridiculous. And I think anybody, again, who offers up that sort of analogy is — ought to be ashamed of themselves, because they could not be more in the wrong.
The same press conference took up the issue of Obama’s Tuesday remarks about U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, which ended up with Gibbs reading directly from a Washington Post interview with the Georgia senator, published on Tuesday.
To wit:
Q: Senator Isakson put out a statement yesterday, also taking issue with what the President describes as his position and his involvement in the end-of-life legislation in the House. Do you want to amend or correct anything the President said, or you said about that? Because Mr. Isakson has a completely different interpretation than the President used and you used yesterday. He didn’t have — he had no role in the House legislation. He opposes the language in the House —
Gibbs: Well, I didn’t say — let’s take what I’ve talked about on the back of the plane. Let me just read what — let me just read the question, a series of questions and answers from Senator Isakson: “How did this become a question of euthanasia?” Senator Isakson: “I have no idea. I understand, and you have to check this out, I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s Web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end-of-life directive, or a living will as that is nuts. You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up.”
Question two: “You’re saying this is not a question of government, it’s for individuals?” Senator Isakson: “It empowers you to be able to make decisions at a difficult time, rather than having the government make them for you.”
Question three: “The policy here, as I understand it, is that Medicare would cover a counseling session with your doctor on end-of-life options.” Senator Isakson: “Correct. And it’s a voluntary deal.”
Q: I believe those are answers in response to his amendment in the HELP bill, not the longer and more defined involvement of these end-of-life panels that’s in the House bill. That’s how it’s been explained to me by his people, so I’m just wondering if —
Gibbs: Well, I would ask them, those people to interpret: “I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s Web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it, where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end-of-life directive or a living will as that is nuts.” Not my words. His.
Q: Right, I understand. But what the President talked about yesterday was saying that Senator Isakson had some role in helping to craft or developed the House legislation —
Gibbs: I think what the President mentioned —
Q: — implying that he supported it. And I’m just saying that Senator Isakson denies that he had any role and he doesn’t support it.
Gibbs: Again, I don’t think that’s what the President was implying. I think the President mentioned that Mr. Isakson had been in the House — that may have been some of the confusion. He was a member of — did, obviously, represent Atlanta suburbs before becoming a U.S. senator from Georgia.
I think, again, what the President was trying to say was, in a question about some of the misinformation, asked specifically about euthanasia and death panels, and I think — and I said this also in the back of the plane yesterday — I think what Senator Isakson says in addressing that misinformation could not be more clear, that for someone to take, as he says, talked about the House bill — his words, not mine — “having death panels on it where people would be euthanized, how somebody could come up with that” — and roughly paraphrasing — in that sense is nuts.
Q: Right. And I’m not trying to beat this into the ground, but he doesn’t support the language in the House bill. You can have differences over —
Gibbs: No, no, I understand. What I’m saying is I think there may be some confusion —
Q: — of end-of-life counseling is and be clear to understand that neither of them calls for anything approaching euthanasia —
Gibbs: I think the one thing that —
Q: Setting that aside for a second —
Gibbs: I mean, again, one thing that —
Q: — he doesn’t back the House language, had no role in it, and believes that yesterday there was comments from the President that indicated that —
Gibbs: I certainly didn’t read it that way and I don’t think my comments —
Q: — should be interpreted that way.
Gibbs: Well, I didn’t say that. To interpret it that way would be nuts. But —
Q: He’s too sensitive about this?
Gibbs: Again, I read what he said in an interview that was posted on WashingtonPost.com yesterday. I think if you go back and look at some amendments that he’s offered and cosponsored —
Q: He (inaudible) —
Gibbs: Right, but this — he’s offered and cosponsored other amendments with Senator [John] Rockefeller in dealing with this. I think — whether this is uncomfortable or not, I think he and the President agree.
Responded Isakson spokeswoman Joan Kirchner:
“Johnny supports living wills and durable power of attorney. He supports individuals making the choice for themselves — whether to get one, what should be in it, and whom to seek advice from in drafting it.
He opposes the current House bill because it is the government deciding who has the conversation, how often they have the conversation, and what is to be discussed in that conversation.”
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74 comments Add your comment
dorightwang
August 12th, 2009
7:09 pm
all minorities, blacks, mexicans, asians, latinos…these incidents show what might be expected when you voice your opinion…especially against republicans. republicans only like you when you rah,rah,hah behind them…when you do not rah with them, they pull out swatikas, and cross burnings, and tapped phone calls, and demands that you leave “their” country…you are welcomed just as long as you give them powers over you and yours!!!
rita
August 12th, 2009
7:15 pm
I don’t believe for a moment that the spray painting on Scott’s sign was done by a right-winger…just too quick after Scott showed his true colors on TV.A cover-up for sure…just to get the focus on those awful racists!
Kristee
August 12th, 2009
7:21 pm
I wish they’d quit using WH to refer to the White House… I think they mean Waffle House everytime…
The Truth
August 12th, 2009
7:24 pm
2 compare republicans to swastikas is just as ludicris as saying the NAACP and the bloods/crips are the same thing!
Why is “white pride” such a bad thing when others celebrate “black pride”, “asian pride”, “mexican pride”? How come its only white nationalist like the BNP that get called racist?
Face it, the blacks are the most racist group in the US and South Africa. Did you know blacks are 3 times more likely than whites in the US to commit a hate crime?
Ahhh what the ignorant liberals hide to promote “diversity”
How come this one swastika (probably by a tennager doing a prank) is such a big deal while im seeing gang signs on every stop sign and building in town??
:Last time i checked, it wasnt the white nationalist doing carjackings and murders throught Atlanta/Miami, New Orleans, Detroit!
My favorite show is the first 48, the liberals cant hide the ugly truth when its reality tv!
Wackos Everywhere
August 12th, 2009
7:31 pm
rita
August 12th, 2009
7:15 pm
I don’t believe for a moment that the spray painting on Scott’s sign was done by a right-winger…just too quick after Scott showed his true colors on TV.A cover-up for sure…just to get the focus on those awful racists!
rita? waiting for those black helicopters to start landing in your back yard?
Wackos Everywhere
August 12th, 2009
7:32 pm
Yeah….exactly! What’s a little swastika among friends?
The Truth
August 12th, 2009
7:34 pm
Never forget…. being a liberal and trusting the wrong person can have a ugly ending, just ask the cancer researcher in midtown. Her last words 2 her friends were “i dont want him to think we dont trust him because hes black”
And people teach your Daughters the truth….. women who sleep with black males are 3 times more likely to get beat, and 33 TIMES more likely to get AIDS!
In fact AIDS is the top killer of AA women 25-35, and over 70% of these women got AIDS from sleeping with a black man that was unaware he had the disease.
Wackos Everywhere
August 12th, 2009
7:50 pm
Never forget….being a right winger and doing the bidding of the insurance companies and big business can keep you a slave big business and the insurance companies for your entire life. Just ask the guy who worked in midtown and had a heart attack. His company downsized…. he lost his job…..and could not get insurance because he had a pre existing condition. Those wonderful insurance companies who are lobbying like heck against a national health care plan are the same folks who determine coverage based on the fact that they want your premiums but don’t want to pay when you are sick or dying.
Hey but that’s ok! There are plenty of uneducated, bitter folks out there who will vote and do the bidding of the rich and powerful even though they are cutting their own throats when they do it.
I love this country! Even idiots have the God given right to be idiots and participate in the process! Even racists who try to pass themselves off as logical, unbias individuals can be exposed for what they really are simply by posting their own words in an open forum like this one.
for real
August 12th, 2009
7:52 pm
Has David Scott been indicted yet? Everyone knows he did this.
tim from ep
August 12th, 2009
8:06 pm
“The Truth” – do you realize how ignorant your comments make you sound. There is nothing racist about celebrating your heritage so long long as you don’t promote hate against other races or culture. The so-called “if we celebrate white pride, then we are racist” argument is so lame and ignorant. Of course you are going be called racist when you promote your race or culture at the expense of discriminating and hating other races and cultures. And that argument holds true for anyone, regardless of race or culture.
Then you said this: “How come its only white nationalist like the BNP that get called racist?
The BNP promotes discrimination against other races and cultures.
Ok since you want to bring up the BNP, here is a an excerpt of their views on immagration:
“We want Britain to remain – or return to – the way it has traditionally been. We accept that Britain always will have ethnic minorities and have no problem with this as long as they remain minorities and do not change nor seek to change the fundamental culture and identity of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles.”
Whats funny is that is that British people did the same thing to the indigenous of American that the BNP doesn’t want to happen in Britian.
Second of all, the swastika is nothing to take lightly, even if it was a teen. Your suggestion of this shows how insensitive you are to what the representation of the swastika means to a lot of people.
Finally, if you trying to use television program that has been carefully design as a form of entertainment as evidence that something is 100% truth in 100% of all cases, then you can only taken as joke. So everything you say or has said is more funny than fact until you prove otherwise.
The Truth
August 12th, 2009
8:13 pm
As a independent, i agree with health care overhall. I DONT think some scumbag rapist/ gangmember in prison should get the same care for cancer or whatever as a hardworking person in society. Its no secret the govt wants to kill off the elderly and puts stuff in the public drinking water for population control. Republicans and Democrats are both guilty of this sort of thinking.
Whats scary about socialism coming on is that over time we will loose alot of our freedoms just like Europe has. Alot of this is done in the name of “stopping hate” by passing more and tougher hate crimes legislation. Even tho this legislation only seems to affect whites. If the Univ of Tenn couple that was killed/ raped/ multilated by thugs in Knoxville wasnt a “hate crime” according to liberals and the far left…… then WHAT IS!??
Further proof that “hate crimes” legislation is just a sham to fight against a mostly imaginary “white racism”. Common… we all know in the city when walking to your car at night, its not the “white racist” u gotta worry about! Just ask Vernon Forrest.
Kris
August 12th, 2009
8:19 pm
White Gays and Lesbians are targeted by black churches all the time. What about that Mr. President? Stop being a racist stupid ass.
The Truth
August 12th, 2009
8:27 pm
Tim: immigration in Europe IS a serious problem! At least the leaders of the BNP have the balls to confront the problem and dont have the cloud of “white guilt” like the far left loons.
Did you know the EU plans to import 50 million Africans into Europe over the next 10 years?
Can you imagine going to Paris/London on vacation and it being just as dangerous as Detroit or New Orleans? The left govt is allowing mass immigration from 3rd world countries not because they feel sorry for the immigrants, but because of greed!
And yes it IS a danger to the native white population.
In fact in Sweden has seen a 900% increase in violent crime since allowing mass immigration from Muslim countries! What do you know about Muslim gang rape of white/western women? http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/sweden-soaring-crime-rates-directly-related-to-rampant-muslim-immigration/
SUPPORT THE BNP!!
Bill White
August 12th, 2009
8:32 pm
You liberal McFlys out there don’t understand quite a bit on this Hussein Nobama Healthscare thing.
A)I didn’t see anything going wrong at these town halls. Patriotic Americans have every right to question this Socialistic gov’t.
B)Congressman Scott got what was coming to him. Now I don’t support vandalizing signs; I understand the rage and symbolism behind the act.
Let’s face it, this is like Nazi Germany. Does anyone remember a guy named Adolf? He rounded up many of his people’s guns and then…y’all know the rest of that story.
I liked that Cal Thomas opinion piece about how seculars could care less about life because they don’t believe on God. And if you don’t lead a Christ-centered existence, you form a Socialist gov’t like we have now. That’s why there will be death panels very soon. Ah, George Orwell should see us now.
God Bless,
Bill Orvis White
What a Myth
August 12th, 2009
8:40 pm
AMEN TO THAT. I bet David Scott Paid Someone to paint that swastika. I’m surprised they didn’t throw a brick thru the window. The Press ignores al the Left wing nuts with Bush But those scary senior citzens and wow its front page and leading the news stories.
Bill White
August 12th, 2009
8:54 pm
The right thinking folks in this forum are doing the work that the far left media refuses to do.
indpendently happy
August 12th, 2009
9:06 pm
you guys wouldn’t know the truth or correct grammar and spelling if it hit you in the head. Social Security, Veterans’ benefits, Medicare are all government run programs–some of them you are privy to at this very moment. So stop the foolish words and rhetoric you are espousing. You sound like sheep wandering aimlessly in the field. If you are getting social security, medicare or veterans benefits than you are the socialist you are calling the POTUS. If you want less government, give up social security and medicare and than see how you get along. YOU ARE ALL MORONIC!
Doc Newton
August 12th, 2009
9:16 pm
BUSTED!: “Obama As Hitler” Poster Was A Democrat/Union Plant At John Dingell Townhall! UPDATED with video interview!
http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2009/08/busted-obama-as-hitler-poster-was.html
Doc Newton
August 12th, 2009
9:24 pm
Bus–ted… Obama Bussed In Supporters For New Hampshire Town Hall (Video)
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/bus-ted-obama-bussed-in-supporters-for.html
Coastal Cavalier
August 12th, 2009
9:29 pm
Let’s not forget, there were folks calling for investigations into a hate crime when someone spray painted a house belonging to an Obama supporter in Forsyth County earlier this year. Turns out the woman who owned the house did the spray painting on the house and not the “eeeeeeeevil republicans”. I think it can be at least a likelihood a Scott supporter did it. Rep. Scott may not have had anything to do with it but one of supporters, yes.
no way
August 12th, 2009
9:39 pm
“you guys wouldn’t know the truth or correct grammar and spelling if it hit you in the head. Social Security, Veterans’ benefits, Medicare are all government run programs–some of them you are privy to at this very moment.”
Describe your experiences with any of the programs you just mentioned.
no way
August 12th, 2009
9:49 pm
“you guys wouldn’t know the truth or correct grammar and spelling if it hit you in the head. Social Security, Veterans’ benefits, Medicare are all government run programs–some of them you are privy to at this very moment.”
I ‘m going to tell you right now, Veteran’s Administation health care is a joke. I have been on it for 25 years and it is real bad. I have no choice, I am a100% service connected disabled veteran. If you had dealt with that care you would know the fear in the old men. you might want to listen to some of us young man, before you get the same rotten care crammed down your throat. And I am a tier 1 patient. Trust me when I say you do not want it. It is better than nothing, but not much.
ToePro
August 12th, 2009
10:18 pm
I think it’s discouraging that the Republican Party has been hi-jacked, If you read the Republican Party Platform it’s genious and truly defines an Equal United America! It’s sad the party has become the minority in America and has been hijacked by so-called Christian Conservatives!
scott
August 12th, 2009
10:22 pm
If it was done by a right winger, the point was missed. It represents the road we are traveling down to a socialist nation. Hitler began his reign in much the same way with a crumbling economy, high unemployment, rampant inflation etc.
Concerned for Georgia
August 12th, 2009
10:35 pm
All of a sudden a black congressman pulls out the race card when a liberal agenda encounters pressure.
Racism will never die people, it is a tool for all races to use. It is used to extort and empower. I truely wish their were greater penalties when for individuals who claim racial discrimination only to prove unfounded.
I am sure the good citizens of the city of Atlanta will now claim that I am a racist to. Easy to call names, harder to look in the mirror!
Jodie
August 12th, 2009
10:42 pm
This crap is SOOOOOOOOO fake….
$10 says there is a dead kitten found outside [insert minority Democrat Congressman name here]’s office before the end of the week with a Halliburton business card found 50 feet from the crime scene….
Yawn.
Elle
August 12th, 2009
10:45 pm
Right Jodie its about as fake as these hateful racists posts I have been reading on the AJC for the last few days. Maybe its as fake as the abortion doctor that was killed recently. If that makes you feel better to hide your head in the sand then so be it.
Dave
August 12th, 2009
10:45 pm
I’m betting one of Scotts people did it,they had to do something to divert the attention away from his poor performance and losing his cool the out night.
Durrrr
August 12th, 2009
10:45 pm
98.7% (give or take .3%) of the worlds problems can be traced back to islam and blacks. For those of you who will call me a racist, first read the definition of the word, second look at all of the crime statistics. Wherever in the world you have significant populations of muslims or blacks, crime is astronomical. Education is non-existent. Freedom is but a distant dream. Civilizations are crumbling. The African continent is the wealthiest on the planet in natural resources, yet they are the poorest population in history.
Now my point is this, we have a president who is both black and muslim. We have a congress that has far more minorities in relation to the population as a whole because of gerry mandering. We gave blacks every advantage and they screwed it up. It is over.
In the words of Bob Basso, “buy a gun, you’ll need it”.
Elle
August 12th, 2009
10:47 pm
Concerned for Georgia, I get so tired of hearing that same old race card line….it does not work…. Please, look at the news, read a paper, read these dang posts on the AJC….racisim is alive and well and I am sure Rep Scott did not have to paint that symbol because I have a confederate flag flying 2 blocks down from me that lets me know we have plenty of folks in Georgia with the mentality to do something like that.
Elle
August 12th, 2009
10:48 pm
Durrr you are so ignorant. Please leave these boards to people who completed at least the 5th grade. Our President is a muslim ? Please give me a breakf freakin idiot!
Durrrr
August 12th, 2009
10:53 pm
Elle keep your head in the sand, it is safe there. That you think I am an idiot is laughable. He is a muslim, and he also believes in black liberation theology.
But I do see that you do agree that blacks and mulims are the root of almost all problems worldwide.
The Big Chicken
August 12th, 2009
10:54 pm
I mean health care has come to this..OK I can play this game too.
Ashley Todd, the young white Texas woman who says she was mugged, beaten and mutilated by an angry black criminal/Obama nut in Pittsburgh
well….so not true…
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
well…this was true
Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith (born September 26, 1971), is an American woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering her children. Born in Union, South Carolina, and a former student of the University of South Carolina Union, she was convicted on July 22, 1995 of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith, born August 5, 1993.[2] The case gained worldwide attention shortly after it developed, due to Smith claiming an African-American stole the car and kidnapped her sons.
a Blanco lie…
When I see white woman I cross the street.. and clutch my Gucci bag..I roll up the windows and lock the doors. You never know what they will accuse you of…I want “MY COUNTRY ” back..LMAO!!
Sick of it.
August 12th, 2009
10:55 pm
What’s next, right-wingers? Obama wants to force us to all wear mittens in the summer time? Obama was secretly abducted by aliens? Obama was seen having dinner with Elvis?
Enough already. Drop the kooky crap and let’s actually talk about how to solve the obvious health care crisis.
Elle
August 12th, 2009
10:56 pm
Durr you are so right the whole mess in the Middle East is caused by Blacks and Muslims. Oh Wait what is happening in North Korea also …oh yes lets not forget what happened in Thaliand..yes that was because of Blacks and Muslims. Oh almost forgot the Holocaust lets not forget that it was caused by blacks and muslims. Again you are a dimwit and obviously educated in the Georgia Public School System.
Silly
August 12th, 2009
10:57 pm
Don’t let those darn libruls take away my Medicare an’ replace it with some guvment run health care. That’d just be plain Un-American!!…..
Elle
August 12th, 2009
10:57 pm
The Big Chicken you have me LMAO…good one!
Elle
August 12th, 2009
10:58 pm
Silly ….I know right? Why do they think Medicare is not government run? Its scary how many unintelligent people are out there. Just screaming about something they have not researched.
Durrrr
August 12th, 2009
11:02 pm
Elle you are so ignorant of what is really happening in the world I’m not sure how you make it through everyday. North Korea is being funded by Iranian muslims. But why waste my time on you?
By the way, islam is not a religion, it is a political movement.
American
August 12th, 2009
11:08 pm
I feel sorry for these elderly folks who are being taken advantage of by the Republican Party.
If all else fails, scare the seniors!
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:10 pm
http://tinyurl.com/odfl2z
ladyliberty
August 12th, 2009
11:12 pm
Mr. Galloway. How do you attrack so many nutty comments?
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:13 pm
I wonder where Tawana Brawley was that night?
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:15 pm
Maybe it was Mort Downey from the grave.
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:18 pm
Maybe Max Cleland is out drunk again.
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:19 pm
Victor Hill? He has ladders.
Itsfunny
August 12th, 2009
11:21 pm
Forget Healthcare. Some of you need spelling classes. Go Mr. President do your thing!
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:24 pm
You people are so freakin funny.
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:25 pm
How did healthcare reform become a forum on race?
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:25 pm
What does it matter to you as an individual?
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:26 pm
How does it affect you and your little world?
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:28 pm
What does black crime statistics have to do with healthcare?
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:29 pm
We’re talking about sick people getting medical care, not walking to your car getting robbed.
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:32 pm
Bill Campbell?
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:33 pm
Then this wowsers character brings up the 1986 Tawanna Broley case. Gee Wowsers. Is it possible for a blog to stay on point for more than the first 2 posts without becoming a battle cry for Cyber Racists who hide in the comfort of their homes? Do your Black neighbors know you all feel this way or are you scared to tell them? LOL. ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho he he he he!!!1
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:36 pm
How would you know what color I am?
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:41 pm
My name is Geronimo Goldstein. I’m irish. And chill out decatur. I remember the old mathis dairy. Wesley Chapel Road. back when you could drive through there without an AK47.
wowsers
August 12th, 2009
11:44 pm
greentree farms road dog.
geronimo goldstein at the rialto theatre
August 12th, 2009
11:53 pm
oy vey!
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:53 pm
Ha Ha Ha. Mathis Dairy has been gone for 20+ years. And hey, I could be from Decatur Illiois. Are you from Dublim gubna?
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:53 pm
I meant Dublin.
Decatur
August 12th, 2009
11:54 pm
And there you go with the usual standard attacks on blacks.
Commissar Obama
August 13th, 2009
1:03 am
How do we know that a liberal didn’t plant the swastika?
Joela
August 13th, 2009
1:08 am
I’ll bet ‘ya 10 boiled peanuts that Rep. Scott had the swastika painted. The “Nazi” thing always comes out when the press and there liberal allies can’t find any other mud to sling. I’m sick and tired of the “D’s” and the “R’s”; dez both opportunistic politicians.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle
August 13th, 2009
2:33 am
I’ll bet you a wooden nickle that Billy McKinney painted that garbage. Oh, how I wish there was some sort of footage of the event. I hope every place of business around that clown’s office reviews any video and put an end to this story. No right winger would go to that part of town anyway, and after dark? Are you kidding me? It is time for Scott and the other Racebaiters to retire.
Kenia Walter
August 13th, 2009
3:42 am
I don’t believe some of the stuff I have been reading. Is it because we have a Black president and the republicans didn’t win the election? This is 2009 and what I’m reading it seems like we are back in the early 1900s.What ashame that some people are this backwards! I will leave it at that!!!
Mike
August 13th, 2009
5:56 am
Isakson has his head in the sand. And Jim one more thing. Smryna is not Atlanta, so dont give people who are not local to Atlanta that it is the same city. Having a parent born in 1922 in Stone Mountain and spending my 59 years in the metro area and judging from the previous replies to your column, there are still places here that are infested with racism, infested with ignorance and infested with the type of people who have no thought other than blame others for their lot in this life. Look at those town hall morons. It is the same group of people whose thinking has made this a hated country ever where in this world.
Farve Dollar Footlong
August 13th, 2009
6:35 am
Of course the WH is talking about this…Rep. Scott is black.
TRUTH
August 13th, 2009
8:27 am
This is what us Lefties are saying, “A lot of you have taken a discussion about healthcare reform and absolutely turned it racial.” Once its gone racial, then the nut cases come out in droves. Sure, Rep. Scott painted the swatstika on his own sign..give me a break. I guess he also wrote the letter that referred to him as a n-word too? And made the calls threatening his life and family? He also paid that doctor to show up at his scheduled transportation meeting to ask the question about healthcare as well? He also had him go on Channel 11 the next day to express his purported “outrage” about how the Representative “shouted him down” while those others that were there with the good Doctor were disrupting the meeting. Talk about wearing tin-foil hats!! LMAO!! I have seen my fellow citizens, who I know can’t stand the sight of a black, hispanic, or an asian person, carry signs that call the President a Nazi, a Socialist, and God knows what else (some that were so offensive that they don’t deserve mention in this retort) exercising their right to freedom of speech no matter how incendiary, yet, they feel that this country is slipping away from them? Huh?? Have we started removing citizens from this country? Have we eliminated the tenets of the Constitution? This is not Iran, where they have called out the miitary too cease this, although fabricated, outcry from a few. And let us be clear, if you look at the media reports, if you’ve been too a healthcare reform townhall, if you’ve paid attention to the politicians who are fueling this break from the reality, you will find that is overwhelmingly the acts of white people (save Eric Gladney who fell down and was seen walking normally afterwards before being interviewed in a wheel chair for the cameras in a full leg cast). That’s kinda like the young lady who carved the backwards “B” in her face and claimed Obama operatives did it during the campaign. The more frightening part is that those who have reacted so adversely to the call for an intelligent discussion by trying to shut down that dialouge. They have allowed themselves to be led down this path of BS by the insurance lobby. the very people who’ve created this mountain of debt, and have denied you treatment (if needed), have bankrupted your family, friends, and those you don’t even know. You’ve been led down this path by your very own select politicians who are/have been funded by the insurance lobby. While they get rich and we go broke or die. By the very pundits who see the loss of position and power they’ve forged for themselves, to people who look like you and me. By the media who like to fashion controversy to drive ratings by pitting this country against itself. It’s crazy that people think that the President is NOT from this country, that he’s against white people, when his mother was white (thanks, Glenn Beck), that he’s going to fail (compliments of Rush Limbaugh), and that he has not shown his “long form birth certificate (whatever the hell that is,” (Lou Dobbs),and the appreciation of that rhetoric by a relatively small amount of the public, clearly shows a detachment from the true reality. Out country sees this. That LARGER part of the public that is sitting there shaking there heads and wondering “What the Hell?” Death panels, Fear, pulling the plug on Grandma, Racial Attacks, Political Punditry, Lies, Misinformation, Namae-calling, Bible waving, constitutional illiteracy, supporting the status quo, Big Pharma, Insurance Companies, banking, lobbyists…whew.
Is this who runs our country? Is this who controls the discussion on Healthcare Reform? It’s amazing to me, that in my almost 50 years, that this country remains as divided as it was in the 60’s and 70’s. I pray that our children be better than this, if they can survive what the argument is about, the continued robbery of this country by the Big Banks and Insurance Companies. Our issues aren’t with the enemies off our shores, it is the enemy within that is sucking us dry. I, for one, applaud the President for stanading up on behalf of all of us, even with our vast differences, to try and do something that will benefit all of us LONG TERM, by offering what every other citizen in this world receives, Healthcare. Not through a HMO, not through Private Industry, not through a two payer system. Healthcare for children and the elderly. Who doesn’t want that? Oh, see above.
cool rock
August 13th, 2009
10:00 am
Whites are as guilty as throwing the race card as blacks are. But the truth is that there are more white racists in Georgia than anywhere in the US
BravesFan79
August 13th, 2009
11:49 am
Funny cool rock…. when i was carjacked in Marietta by 2 black males back in 2001 and they wanted me to drive to the woods so they could kill me and take my car, after i outsmarted them u know what they said? “youz cool fo a white boy” That was only 1 time out of 5 that my life was affected by violent crime. Guess how many times out of those 5 it involved black males? EVERYTIME!
Thank God i was created to be of higher IQ than the black thugs, or i wouldnt be here right now.
Theres NO way anyone can tell me alot of blacks arent more racist than whites!
How about all the rapes of whites in prison by blacks every year?? Is that not racial? How many blacks can talk about how “white” violent crime has affected them personally?
Id guess a black is probably 1000 times more likely to get killed by another low IQ black than a “racist white”.
I say steralize every prisoner thats convicted of a violent crime. That way they cant go back out into the community and spread more fatherless kids and future thugs!
The TRUTH hurts huh you liberals with your heads in the sand!
And Muslim/Black immigration IS a BIG problem in Europe! Just look at how their violent crime stats have skyrocketed. The EUs immigration policy is truly killing Europe.
Hook Em Horns
August 13th, 2009
1:24 pm
It WASN’T a discussion at all, Leftie! Obama tried to shove it down our throats in 3 weeks! What kind of serious debate takes place in 3 weeks!?!?! Don’t expect to try to slide one passed us and not ruffle a few feathers.
the south sucks
August 13th, 2009
1:41 pm
Maybe not anywhere but the entire Southeast (Louisiana over to Georgia) is AWFUL! The least racist place I have ever been, somewhat surprisingly, was the actual city of Dallas, TX and the entire state of New Mexico.
“cool rock
Whites are as guilty as throwing the race card as blacks are. But the truth is that there are more white racists in Georgia than anywhere in the US”
Cynthia Tucker Mckinney
August 14th, 2009
1:20 pm
The racism in this country is on dull display on the left. Anyone remember Rev. Wright? Anyone remember the Skip Gates incident?