Comments on: A White House briefing on Isakson and (very separately) the Smyrna swastika

By: Cynthia Tucker Mckinney

Cynthia Tucker Mckinney — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:20:11 +0000

The racism in this country is on dull display on the left. Anyone remember Rev. Wright? Anyone remember the Skip Gates incident?

By: the south sucks

the south sucks — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:41:17 +0000

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”

By: Hook Em Horns

Hook Em Horns — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:24:43 +0000

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.

By: BravesFan79

BravesFan79 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:49:55 +0000

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.

By: cool rock

cool rock — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:00:55 +0000

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

By: TRUTH

TRUTH — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:27:27 +0000

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.

By: Farve Dollar Footlong

Farve Dollar Footlong — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:35:08 +0000

Of course the WH is talking about this…Rep. Scott is black.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:56:31 +0000

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.

By: Kenia Walter

Kenia Walter — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:42:38 +0000

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!!!

By: Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle

Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:33:14 +0000

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.