Guess who won’t be coming to lunch with Obama?
Updated on Monday: Although a staffer said he didn’t plan to show, U.S. Rep. John Lewis was present for President Barack Obama’s visit to Atlanta, we’re told.
President Barack Obama’s second visit to Georgia this year may be one of those parties best remembered for the guests who failed to show.
The president will spend the better part of Monday in Atlanta — first speaking to a convention of disabled veterans. Then the president will be the featured guest at a Democratic National Committee luncheon and fundraiser.
President Barack Obama last week addressed the National Urban League. Associated Press
Many Democrats will flock to the downtown events. Michael Thurmond, the labor commissioner and U.S. Senate candidate, will be there. U.S. Rep. David Scott of Atlanta will greet Obama as he steps off Air Force One, as will Gov. Sonny Perdue — a Republican.
Mayor Kasim Reed will give the first African-American president an effusive introduction at the DNC fundraiser. A spokesman for Sanford Bishop said the Democratic congressman from southwest Georgia will be in the audience for both events.
But the list of Democrats who won’t be there is long and conspicuous.
Roy Barnes, the former governor and his party’s July choice to retake the office, has received the most attention for his decision to give priority to a Monday schedule that will take him through Middle and South Georgia. But there are others:
– Ken Hodges, the nominee for attorney general, will be in Albany for a case he’s working on for his law firm;
– U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, who faces yet another Republican challenger, has plans to help his daughter move;
– U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Savannah will remain in Washington for “a minor medical procedure.” And, yes, he’ll have Republican opposition in November.
– A staffer for John Lewis said the Atlanta congressman simply has other plans;
– And U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson of Decatur will remain in Washington to prepare for the September impeachment of a federal judge. He’s one of the impeachment managers.
Clearly, some of the excuses are legitimate. The congressional summer recess began only last Friday. Monday, then, is the first real day of vacation for U.S. House members.
Given their large African-American constituencies, neither Lewis nor Johnson has anything to fear from being photographed at Obama’s side. Barrow didn’t hesitate to appear with the president in Savannah this winter.
But it is simply a fact that many other Democrats can’t afford to be seen with a president awarded a 37 percent approval rating by Georgia voters just last month.
Republicans are sure to chortle at the snubbing of Obama as something rare and, thus, significant. But in fact, Democrats are simply re-embracing a long-standing Southern tradition.
As a governor and U.S. senator, Herman Talmadge would schedule fishing trips that coincided with the quadrennial meetings of the Democratic National Convention.
Sam Nunn, concerned with winning his first term in the U.S. Senate in 1972, stayed as far away as he could from Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.
Steve Anthony is the former chief of staff for the late House Speaker Tom Murphy and now his biographer. “Witness to History: A Memoir” (McGraw-Hill, $19.95) just hit the bookshelves.
One passage in the book dwells on Murphy’s reluctance to back Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in 1988 — who was nominated at that year’s convention in Atlanta. The House speaker was at the apex of his power, but he had opposition at home that year.
“A reporter asked the speaker if he was going to vote for [Dukakis]. And the speaker deferred. It created a little bit of a firestorm with the liberal wing of the party at the time,” Anthony said.
“It wasn’t that they didn’t want to be engaged in national or presidential politics,” said Anthony, who now teaches political science at Georgia State University. “It’s that they knew what the voters of Georgia would tolerate. And when a candidate presented himself that fit that definition, they were for him.”
Murphy, for instance, was a reliable supporter of Al Gore. In the 2008 presidential contest, as the fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton reached fever pitch, Barnes was safely tucked behind the candidacy of fellow lawyer John Edwards of North Carolina.
But even safe decisions aren’t always safe. This week, the Georgia GOP sent out an e-mail with a photograph of Barnes standing next to the fallen, philandering Edwards.
Nor is the tradition of shunning national party figures restricted to Democrats. In 2005, Perdue — a year away from re-election — ducked an appearance with the not-so-popular Dick Cheney, then vice president.
But the fact that Obama is a sitting president has posed an unfamiliar problem for Georgia Democrats. Appearing with Jimmy Carter was a matter of state loyalty. Bill Clinton, too, was a familiar Southerner — sponsored and encouraged by then Gov. Zell Miller.
And the situation is made more discomfiting by the possibilities that 2010 has dangled in front of Democrats.
“My question is, when I first heard [Obama] was coming was, why did they do it? Who are the brains in Washington that thought, let’s do something in Georgia — and that it would benefit the candidates in Georgia?” Anthony asked.
“Here you’ve got a decent situation for a Democrat to win the governor’s race. Their move here could endanger that,” he added.
For the record, the state Democratic Party referred all inquiries about the Obama visit to the DNC in Washington.
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the ever gullible people
July 31st, 2010
3:06 pm
Notice how jim won’t explain why he runs the Courtney English story, but won’t talk about how the blue ribbon commission that is “investigating” the CRCT cheating scandal is full of people who have business dealings with APS?
As an “insider” he has to know about it, so the question is why doesn’t he have the journalistic integrity to talk about it?
Hector
July 31st, 2010
3:35 pm
King Roy can run but he can’t hide.
john
July 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
@anthony. The main reason the President is going to be in Georgia is to speak to the Disabled Veterans of America at their convention. Perhaps “the brains in Washington” thought that the man who leads our armed forces should speak to such an honorable group. I am sorry if speaking to veterans who spilled their blood in defense of our nation doesn’t fit into your parties agenda.
Ronnie
July 31st, 2010
4:58 pm
As a service-connected disabled veteran, I agree with you John.
Dawg '88
July 31st, 2010
5:18 pm
No one wants to be seen with a failure that doesn’t do what the public wants, demonizes those who disagree with him, and someone who has an in the 30s job approval rating.
You also don’t want to stand next to the face of the Culture of Death….a man who supports the dismembering Partial Birth abortion technique and votes against the Born Alive Act (law to give medical attention to save a child who survives an abortion…w/o it the baby is placed in a room until it dies).
And he calls himself a health care champion…Bull. Funny someone who was allowed to be born dictating who lives and who dies. Can’t trust:
Barack Obama….The Abortion President!!!!
MD
July 31st, 2010
5:22 pm
I won’t be there either but I will be in the voting booth in nov. to vote as many democrats out of office as I can.
JMC
July 31st, 2010
5:30 pm
John, you are much too sensible for the current political climate! Mr. Anthony should take a look at the first sentence of Article II, Section 2 of the US constitution. That might give a hint as to why the president will be in Atlanta.
WE lost our way
July 31st, 2010
5:31 pm
It’s sad that people put there election needs ahead of our veterans.Show you where their hearts are and it’s not whats best for our commitment to our veterans. I would like to ask Roy and all the others who have an excuse to attend to show their support.Put up as true Americans are shut up! Need to get out of the way and let true leaders lead.I am sick of all this party crap! To Hell with the parties.Do what’s right for America and our Veterans.
Keith Helms
July 31st, 2010
5:44 pm
If I were a Disabled Veteran I would certainly be on the front row to greet President Obama, And leave after I gave him the fickle finger of fate and informed him he is the sorriest President this country has ever had, in every way anyone can imagine.
Real GA
July 31st, 2010
5:46 pm
I am happy that President Obama will come to Georgia to speak to the disabled veterans. These men and women actually served our country and they deserve to hear from the Commander in Chief. By the way, the individuals who write negative commons about our president are some of the same people who did not think that he was going to win in 2008.
The president will continue to have the support of the true Americans.
Kay
July 31st, 2010
5:47 pm
I for one and excited to see that the President will be in GA….and if those Dems are too scared to be photograped with him, then that’s their loss. Serves them right trying to cater to these folks down here.
Kay
July 31st, 2010
5:47 pm
@Keith….bitter much?
Fire Eater
July 31st, 2010
6:24 pm
We need to fasten Mr. Obama ’round Roy’s neck while reminding folks who don’t live “ITP” that it was he who defiled and defamed the most beautiful state flag in America. Remind people that it is the Donkey Party that objects to the expulsion of illegal aliens from America…that seeks to outlaw guns.
Roy Barnes new tack on illegal aliens is especially amusing since it is the Democratic Party that has filed suit to void the wise law requiring voters to show official ID at the polls.
colin richards
July 31st, 2010
6:31 pm
To Jim Galloway: I quote you, “Given their large African-American constituencies, neither Lewis nor Johnson has anything to fear from being photographed at Obama’s side.” RACIST MUCH??? Many of us Conservative Christian parents who are involved in scouts and/or PTA and the Church love the Commander in Chief and the USA and not only support the troops but have many in our families serve. Racists like you are in the minority in Georgia, although I think most of you are outside the Metro area and suburbs. Most of us (who pay most of the taxes in Georgia) are good family people and are INTELLECTUAL progressives, not throwback web-toed racists. For goodness sake, PLEASE, Young people, and intellectuals, and progressives, VOTE in the midterms!! God bless America.
SHAME ON ROY BARNES
July 31st, 2010
6:36 pm
ROY YOU HAVE LOST MY VOTE!!!!!!!! IF YOU CAN STAND WITH US THEN YOU MUST BE AGAINST US!!!!!! WANT VOTE AT ALL.
AtlantaUGA guy
July 31st, 2010
6:51 pm
Colin… ease up a little on Jim. Since the Republican wave hit Georgia a few years ago, the numbers show that race and party are close kin here. Jim was speaking from a demographic/stats standpoint. If you look at the President’s approval numbers there is a very strong correlation with race (particularly with male voters). That doesn’t make us all racists. I happen to see myself much the way you described yourself. I also happen to be a white male who strongly supports Pres. Obama. However, I’m the exception to the rule in Georgia. There are too many racist for sure. But I don’t believe Jim is one of them.
Hear what you want to hear
July 31st, 2010
6:58 pm
@Dawg ‘88. President’s Obama’s approval rating is not in the 30’s. It’s slightly above 50%. I think you’re getting him confused with our previous president, who’s approval rating was at 25% when he left office, but not before he trashed everything in his path. Because of the disastrous decisions made by him and his totally incompetent administration, we now have hundreds of thousands more disabled veterans than we should. And oh yeah, the 4,000 plus who gave their lives for…hmm…for…remind me again what they gave their lives for?
And you’re incensed at him for what reason? Is it because he gave you access to affordable health care? Is it because he’s steering the U.S. economy out of the second worst predicament ever? Is it because he’s black? And before you start going off about our deficit, know that we were spending 10 BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH IN IRAQ (all totaled that adds up to about seven health care plans in the event you don’t own a calculator). Conservatives mouthing off about fiscal responsibility is laughable beyond words. Where were they from 2003-2008?
Sigh
Can we please stop pretending?
July 31st, 2010
7:01 pm
When will Democrats stop trying to pretend they can fool voters? Democrats running away from a Democratic president makes the entire party look spineless.
The number of voters who will not vote for someone because they went to lunch with the first African-American honoring disabled vets is far smaller than the number of voters who’ll stay home because they didn’t go.
Stop pandering to racists. Barnes has lost my vote, I’ll vote for other Democrats, but not him, not now.
Dacula voter
July 31st, 2010
7:04 pm
How is it racist to state a political fact? Obama has 95% approval among blacks- obviously Johnson/ Lewis are in majority black districts where Obama’s approval is still sky high- as opposed to most of Georgia. I know its the in thing these days to jump out and scream racism every time something is happening they don’t like or agree with it, but as AtlantaUGA guy said lay off here.
William
July 31st, 2010
7:14 pm
I have to be downtown for a cardiologist appointment. I hope to be out before the Naked Emperor arrives
GI Dolly...
July 31st, 2010
7:23 pm
Roy is a draft dodger, and continues to dodge the veterans…
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
7:34 pm
I am not a disabled veteran, but I deeply respect and honor those who have served and sacrificed for America. It is ironic to me that a President who has not served this nation in that capacity should address such an honorable group, considering the aplogies he has made around the world for America. His systematic destruction of capitalism makes it difficult for veterans to find a job, as it does for the rest of the population. The America for which these disabled veterans sacrificed is falling victim to the “change you can believe in” for a “hope” of socialism.
To echo an earlier post, I will not attend either.
I will be in the voting booth to vote against every democrat on my ballot, though.
Juanita J
July 31st, 2010
7:45 pm
MY MY…well I am a registered Democrat and the ones that won’t attend luncheon, or would not change their schedules or ashame to be with the President….I’m DARN ASHAME TO VOTE FOR THEM…SO, BARNES AND THE REST HAVE LOST MY VOTE AND I’M GOING TO SPREAD THE NEWS TO AS MANY OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS TO DO THE SAME. WE KNOW WHAT THE REAL PROBLEM IS………………………!!
Juanita J
July 31st, 2010
7:50 pm
Another thing, whether I liked Bush or not, I respected him. A lot of you have disrespected the President of these United States…He was elected by people of all races. Its a shame that Southerners are still harboring on the past, and can’t look past Color. If you are Demorcrat and running for office, you should support the President when he is coming to Georgia. Heck, Sara Palin is not liked either, but she is coming and coming with a Force…Democrates dishing the Pres…take heed………I’m really not going to VOTE for you because of your looking like a “:Fool”
get behind our country
July 31st, 2010
7:56 pm
It is sad that everything needs to be politicized and the journalists try to stir the pot at any (or anyone’s) expense. He is here to honor those who have served our country and suffered for America. He also serves our country well like his political views or not.
The way it works is that those who voted and lost in 2008 have an other chance in 2012. Please pare the petty statements that all those who like him are not American. America voted for him and also not for him but the majority for him. If the majority votes for him again OK and if it does not OK. It is the way our system works. Those who lost should not be so bitter. The pendulum swings both ways. The world will continue to turn either way. Stop crude political assaults now!
SickofIt
July 31st, 2010
8:05 pm
I am a long time Southern Democrat that won’t be there either. But like the earlier poster stated, I will be in the voting booth in November, to vote as many “democrats” out of office as I can!
Bring on the old Regan Revolution (true Southern Democrat mentality), Trickle down economics is a Hell of a lot better than “just print more billions” and let our kids and grand kids pay for it all (as new legal Chinese citizens I might add).
WideAwake
July 31st, 2010
8:07 pm
No one polled me. I support the President of the U.S.A. And will vote Nov 2010 with many others.
SickofIt
July 31st, 2010
8:11 pm
This LIFE LONG Democrat will be voting Republican for the next TWO years. OBAMA and the Senate and House has done more long term harm to the USA than ANY party in the history of our country. Sad that you will only read this on a blog instead of CNN,
SickofIt
July 31st, 2010
8:13 pm
WideAwake
lol
You and 20% of the other idiots in this Country illegally
SickofIt
July 31st, 2010
8:17 pm
get behind our country:
OK, But it will NOT be with an Obama presidency or a “Democratic” House or Senate.
It will be with conservative (true Southern Democrats). people that think like Zell Miller, Sam Nunn, etc.
SickofIt
July 31st, 2010
8:20 pm
Juanita J
“Its a shame that Southerners are still harboring on the past, and can’t look past Color”.
COLOR has nothing to do with it. COMPETENCE does.
SickofIt
July 31st, 2010
8:30 pm
censorship?
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
8:33 pm
Boy how many dumb a**es are there in GA. After 8 years of the George Bush trying to dismantle govt how can you idiots say Obama is bad. As a white Georgian I am ashamed at the ignoramuses in this state. You’ll back a quitter like Palin but not some who is competent and can actually form coherent sentences when he speaks.
Juanita J is right you are all a bunch of Racists.
Jill
July 31st, 2010
8:33 pm
Well said John!
Keith Helms
July 31st, 2010
8:34 pm
The facts are that Obama has replaced Carter as the worst president as for as governing goes. Obamacare is pure communism. I do not any able bodied person who does not work 60 to 70 hours per week one cent and any one who says I do is a traitor Another fact is the only reason we are losing in Afghanistan is because he wants to lose. He even tried to free some of the 9/11 terrorists by having them tried as USA citizens. Now he wants to spread AIDS throughout the military and elsewhere by supporting the practice of abominations such AS HOMOSEXUALITY.
Jill
July 31st, 2010
8:36 pm
Well said Left in the South! Many Georgians are so behind the times. Crawl out from under the rock you all have been living under. This is 2010. Get over race issues, etc. I hate how overly conservative and close-minded this stupid state is sometimes.
Gary
July 31st, 2010
8:36 pm
I am a native georgian and a military veteran. Sometime I am sorry to say I am a georgian. Mr. Barnes I for one won’t have time to go to the voting booth in November to vote. (I am a proud democrat and would never vote for Rebublican from Georgia). President Obama is only the sorriest president because he is black. I am old enough to know what this state was like during Jim Crowe and the only difference then and now is that the bigots was proud to own up to it. Now you bigoted hipocrits will lie to yourself and anyone else that call you out, that you are not racist. Why don’t you say the president don’t do what white people that thank like you want him to do. Why should he when you didn’t even vote for him. You are so stupid that Rush, Shawn, Neil and the Republican got you hating President Obama so much that you are voting againt your own interest. Oh, I forgot the Republican don’t have anything to offer but that is okay because race has always trumpthed anything or anyone when the choice is between a Black person with ideas and a White person without any. Nathan Deal hadn’t told you one thing about how he is going to “put Georgian back to work. But got you hating President Obama and anyone associated with him, Mexicans, and people that think a woman should have a choice about what happens to her body.
Jill
July 31st, 2010
8:40 pm
Whatever Keith. It’s called fear mongering by the stupid Republicans. Obama is taking away this, Obama is taking away that. What the hell ever. We are not experiencing Communism…dumb. Your comment is an abomination you jerk. People should be free to be with whomever they choose as far as your prejudice comment about homosexuality goes. Shame on you, you sad, pathetic loser for your out of line comments. God I hate this stupid state sometimes. Obama wants to spread AIDS?? OMG, do you hear how dumb you sound? I’ll pray for you.
Jill
July 31st, 2010
8:41 pm
Thank you Gary! I’m with you!
J.B. STONER
July 31st, 2010
8:43 pm
Left in the south — what kind of DA are you ??
Oblama is taking down this country one brick at a time..
Quit watching ABC and watch Fox news to get a valid report on this fool..
YOU ALSO ARE A BIG FOOL- FOOL !!
J.B. STONER
July 31st, 2010
8:48 pm
GOOD POST KEITH…
J.B. STONER
July 31st, 2010
8:49 pm
AND GOOD POST SICKOFIT
J.B. STONER
July 31st, 2010
8:51 pm
BILLY JOE POTEET—- GOOD JOB
Fact check
July 31st, 2010
8:56 pm
Yes Keith, Obama wants to spread AIDS through the military. That’s why the military requires all soldiers to get tested for HIV; because they are trying to spread AIDS through the military.
Keith book a flight to Washington; you’ve just been awarded the Congressional Medal of Ignorance.
Laura K.
July 31st, 2010
9:11 pm
Enter your comments here
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
9:13 pm
JB STONER your tag proves everything I said. (for those not in the know, JB Stoner was a racist who ran for Governor in the 70’s)
FOX(FAUX)NEWS has already proven they are not above race baiting as seen in the Shirley Sherrod false story they were pushing.
I
Ted
July 31st, 2010
9:13 pm
As a veteran I will say – OK come on down Mr. President, but what will you tell us in a speech that we don’t already know. If I hear you say “It’s Bush’s fault”, I will stand and loudly remind you that Nancy Pelosi has been in charge for the past five years. Give credit where it is due – Nancy, Barney Frank, Rangel, etc.
Yes, you dem bloggers are right – King Rat Roy should have his picture made with the Won, so that every voter can see it at election time in November and vote against him.
Go Karen – she will beat him like a drum
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
9:14 pm
For those of you posting with regard to perceived racism:
This is not about race. It is about America and her future. If Obama and the liberals have their way, they will systematically destroy this country – and they have made a very good start of doing just that. No, I do not respect Obama. I see him for what he is and I see what his real goals are.
As for racism, I submit that the worst problem with racism in this country today is with blacks. They are the racists even as they accuse whites of racism. They have learned that if they scream “racism”, they gain an audience which they use to their advantage.
So spare me: instead of the accusations of racism, try supporting your arguments with fact and logic.
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
9:15 pm
Billy Joe
Nothing perceived about your comments, you are a flat out f’ng racist.
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
9:17 pm
@Left in the South
. . . and you can CHANGE your tag to “Left the South”
I will salute your departure.
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
9:21 pm
Billy Joe it’s obvious the only thing you salute is Hitler and the KKK. As to my tag, you are too ignorant to understand it’s double meaning. I prefer to stay and make things better for ALL Georgians!
My Opinion
July 31st, 2010
9:21 pm
The President Of The United States comes to town and some look at the numbers and decide not to show up? The commander in chief comes to town? The man who represents the USA? Conflicts aside at some point people need to understand they represent the people.
Laura K.
July 31st, 2010
9:31 pm
@Dawg 88
Obama wasn’t a member of Congress when the Born Alive Act passed through, so he definitely did not vote against it.
@Hear what you want to Hear
You wrote we were spending 10 billion a month for the wars as if Obama has not continued the massive spending on war. In fact in the month of February 12 billion was spent on Iraq and Afghanistan. Which is an increase from the Bush years
It is truly disappointing that almost every comment on this page blindly supports one party and defiles the other constantly. Obama has flaws but he is also trying to do good things for this country. Politics should not be so black and white, you dont have to hate or love a politician, there is a middle ground.
Every year we seem to become more rabidly attached to a party instead of the people who make up that party, this problem is extremely obvious on this board where 85% of what is being spewed here is hateful, accusatory and incorrect.
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
9:31 pm
@Left in the South
Yeah, I guess everyone is “ignorant” of the fact that your tag means you are a left-wing liberal in Georgia. No one could possibly figure that out without help. I guess I just “accidentally” used it the other way.
Simpleton . . .
Juanita J
July 31st, 2010
9:35 pm
Well, well. Not only do you need to watch Fox, ABC, CNN and others……..KEEP LIVING. IF YOU ARE 35 OR YOUNGER, YOU MAY BE FOOLED, BUT THE REST OF US, KNOW THE REAL DEAL. AND IN THE PAST I HAVE VOTED FOR REPUBLICANS. I DON’T AGREE WITH ALL OF MR. AND YES, I DID SAY MR. PRESIDENT OBAMA’ S POSITIONS, BUT HE HAS BEEN THERE LESS THAN 8 YEARS. MR. REAGAN, WAS A GREAT PRESIDENT TO THE WHITE PEOPLE. MINORITIES WENT BACK 20 YEARS; THEY WENT BACE WITH MR. BUSH,, .THERE SHOULD BE EQUALITY FOR ALL… A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE OUT OF JOB BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T GRADUATE SCHOOL!!!! A LOT ARE LAZY… AND YES, SOME JUST DON’T GIVE A DARN. DON’T BLAME EVERYTHING ON BUSH NOR MR. PRESIDENT OBAMA. LOOK AT YOURSELF!!!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MAKE THE COUNTRY BETTER? STOP BEING A HINDRANCE. DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE FOR A CHANGE.
Sick and Tired
July 31st, 2010
9:37 pm
Most of these post are proof positive why Georgia ranks 49 out of 50 in the educational sector. Just plain ole ignorant.
Sick and Tired
July 31st, 2010
9:40 pm
As for the rating argument. Obama does poll 30 percent in Georgia. He may never get above that in this state. Last time I checked he did not win the state in the election. Odds are he will not win it in the next. For the record he did not need it. He won get over it. Move on with your life. go watch Fox news reading may be too much for you to do.
Juanita J's Mammy
July 31st, 2010
9:41 pm
I done taught you better than this, girl!
President Obama is "White Too"
July 31st, 2010
9:44 pm
Everyone talks about President Obama as being black !! You forget that he was not raised as a black person. His values came from his “white grandmother” and his “white mother”. He really has not experienced being “black” until now. Now that he is the Commander and Chief of the United States of America. President Obama has addressed more issues in the 18 months he has been in office than Former President Bush did in his 8 years, yet the Republicans are blaming him for this mess. This mess started before he took office, people !! Even in Georgia, The Georgia Republicans started this mess we are in !! Neither party can get us out if they won’t get together. Even when you go to the polls and vote- Republican in November, things still won’t be fixed !! in fact, they will probably get worse !! Republicans say, cut taxes but where is revenue going to come from, Republicans say, downsize government, who will govern !! Think People !! Stop looking at Race !!
and remember your current President is White, Too !!
Karen
July 31st, 2010
10:03 pm
I have read all the comments posted…This hatred is truly sad. Everyone deserves RESPECT.. God is not pleased!
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
10:05 pm
@President Obama is “White Too”
Obama claimed his “white grandmother” and “white mother” as an electioneering ploy only. The out-of-control massive spending of money that the U.S. doesn’t have only creates problems for futue generations of taxpayers – IF this country can survive that long. Since only roughly 50% of Americans pay income taxes, half of the country isn’t too concerned with the ever-growing problems created by Obama and the liberal democrats.
When the 50% paying income taxes finally say, “Enough is enough” or the U.S. is unable to borrow more money, the “entitlements” will finally end. For generations of people who have “lived off the government” (the people paying taxes), it will be a very rude awakening.
Then, and only then, will all the people fully see the folly of Obama, liberal democrats and their ilk.
Alas, it will be too late . . .
Tony
July 31st, 2010
10:07 pm
Jill, and Left, keep whistling past the graveyard. Come November, the Democrat, liberal, quasi-communist Congress will take a hit like it never has in our Nation’s history. The 46 seats lost in the ‘94 election will look penny ante after the votes are tallied. How is Obozo fixing ANYTHING? Unemployment is still near 10%, the average person can’t get a loan even AFTER he bailed out all the banks, and we are STILL mired in two wars we can’t afford to fight and he PROMISED to get us out of. Throw in the fact that he and this pinko Congress of his shoved a healthcare plan up our a– that even THEY exempted themselves from, and you have a recipe for a major butt kicking in the fall elections. Keep on spouting your false hope…that’s all it is. And Left, if you think this state is that bad, the last time I checked, I75 North was still open.
A
July 31st, 2010
10:09 pm
Wow.@jbstoner is so off his meds. The actual JB Stoner was the man who once offered his hand to me, not by saying hello but by saying ‘white power’. And that silly pansy confederate flag offended lots of Americans, black and white. Glad it’s burning up in somebodys cookout grill. Since you flag people have already been appropriately ridiculed by Eddie Izzard I will skip the derision. I’m pretty sure you knuckle-draggers are used to it by now. You guys have been called stupid so often that you have no choice but to embrace it: “Yeh, I’m the guy with the GED who knows I’m better than everybody else ’cause I’ve got me a double wide and a case of PBR and the skin of white Jesus’ angels. Ah’m a patriot, an Obama is gonna take away mah guns (which make me a real man ’cause guns are sexy and fool wimmin into thinking I’m well endowed) and take away my 2 mile per gallon pickup truck. I use it to drive to work (back when I had a job-me loosing mah job, well, that was Obama’s fault too) but cain’t seem to find anything to pick up. You can call me stupid to my face but what I am is a upstanding member of the tea party and the Westboro Baptist Church and I represent ‘merica at it’s finest cause I got good common sense and all and I don’t fool around with facts cause they’re commanist. We don’t need no smart president-we liked George Bush jes fine, even tho he was plannin to take away my social security and my medicare and stuff”.
I absolutely have too much fun when Im doing this.
A
July 31st, 2010
10:12 pm
Oh and Jill, you aren’t a… well, you know.
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
10:15 pm
@A
Enjoying that Scotch (Rye, Gin, Vodka)?
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
10:15 pm
Tony, the bank bailout was Bush not Obama. Keep watching FAUX NEWS and stay ignorant as ever.
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
10:17 pm
@Karen
Respect is not “deserved”: it is earned!
A
July 31st, 2010
10:18 pm
O billy jo, you have the purtiest mouth. If I were drinking it would be better liquor than you will ever enjoy in your life. Not because I can afford it but because I have so much better taste than you.
Obama-2-Faced
July 31st, 2010
10:19 pm
Obama speaking at the Vet Convention is a photo-op only. It has nothing to do with his respect for our troops.
If Obama respected veterans, he’d give future vetarans (our current men and women in uniform) all the support, funds, equipment and reinforcements they need to get their jobs done and get home. As it is, he continues to give *just enough* which continues to put our American soldiers at risk.
Shame on this two-faced, attention-seeking, publicity-grabbing president. I’m ashamed of the *leader* of the free world.
Billy Joe Poteet
July 31st, 2010
10:22 pm
@A
IF I still was a drinking man, I believe my choice for the evening would be a very old, very good brandy.
I only wondered because you came “out of the gate” whistling . . .
To Colin
July 31st, 2010
10:23 pm
You love your scouts, do you?
Ask your beloved Commander In Chief why he declined to speak at the Scouts’ 100 Year Anniversary on Wednesday.
He couldn’t be bothered. He was busy taping an appearance on *The View*
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69988
A
July 31st, 2010
10:27 pm
Scotch. Not scouts. And billy jo is on the wag-on. Wonder why. Weak spine? And that ‘out of the gate’ thing has me confused. I guess your humor is a bit lower than mine.
Tony
July 31st, 2010
10:30 pm
OK, Left, then with all the “economic stimulus” Obozo has pumped into our rapidly sinking economy tell me then why unemployment is still around 10%? Or 20% if you count the ones who have given up and run their unemployment benefits out. Explain to me why he would give AMNESTY to ILLEGAL immigrants who freely admit their status, even file suit against a state who is trying desperately to stem the tide? Or how about those two wars he PROMISED in his campaign to get us out of? Gitmo still open? Yes sir it is.
You dodged what I said initally….you and the rest of the libs know your party is going to take a hit in the fall elections…..if you don’t the YOU are the ignorant one, not I. As information, I am not a Republican, I am a Libertarian who thought Bush was a sorry President. But I have to admit, in the 30 plus years I have been a voter, I haven’t seen one as sorry as the one we now have and if I were any of these politicians I wouldn’t want to be associated with him either.
President Obama is "White Too"
July 31st, 2010
10:30 pm
@Billy Joe Poteet – You can’t “claim” DNA !! It is too bad that white’s do not want to admit that President Obama is also white, in fact more white !!
What the US needs to do is change our economic policy !! We are our own country ! We should be able to do what we want, we should be able to make as much money as necessay to achieve economic stability !! but it is really smoke and mirrors !! We have another country backing “our” money, come on.. We should get those money presses going, but the money into circulation at the consumer level instead of in corporations hands !! Put people back to work !!
both sides of the coin
July 31st, 2010
10:44 pm
If we are going to talk about Obama being two-faced in regard to the military, you have to talk about Bush too. We soldiers have to ask relatives to send them scape metal so they won’t be blown up in their own vehicles while Bush fiddles in the White House, that is every bit as much as betraying our troops as anything the new administration has done.
2010BishopOut
July 31st, 2010
10:50 pm
http://www.VoteBishopOut.com
We have had enough of Bishop’s “politics as usual” down here in South Georgia. We will be voting him out this year.
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
10:50 pm
Tony it’s gonna takes a while to undo the 8 years of Bush f’ng America. Wow you admit your wrong about the Bank Bailout. Maybe you can learn.
What did the Repubs do about immigration in the 8 years they had control. Nada. The Arizona Law is racist and unconstitutional.
I’m not happy about Gitmo either but Bush put us there.
Libertarians gave Bush the edge in election.
I’m not dodging anything All the polls show that a greater # of Americans trust Dems on the Economy, Security, Health Care etc.. over Repugs. You better recheck your polls because the are already leveling off http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/30/4784189-first-thoughts-are-democrats-closing-the-gap
Nobody is as sorry or stupid than George Bush who should be in jail w/Cheney for war crimes
To Colin there are plenty of Presidents that did not address the Boy Scouts…..Reagin, Nixon, Eisenhower. So what’s your point?
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
10:56 pm
Sorry mispelled Reagan
Independently yours
July 31st, 2010
11:16 pm
The sorry state of our education systems shows in some of these posts. Too bad people don’t care enough to put some in depth study into history, economics, finance and government. To use a sports analogy, Obama is only in his second quarter. Let’s see how the country is faring as we get closer to the end of his third and the beginning of his fourth. I bet a lot of you critics will be eating a whole lot of crow.
Grandpa Right, formerly of Cochran
July 31st, 2010
11:17 pm
I am disturbed that such a large portion of our population is too ignorant to see that Obama is NOT trying to improve our way of life, but is trying to restructure our fundamental structure. He is oblivious to the desires of the populance because he believes that his vision of a socialist America is worth any price to accomplish- even the political career of those in his own party.
I pray that the damage he has done in his short tenure can be reversed. He is attacking the institutions that made our country the greatest of its era in the world. He is leading us down a sharp decline.
And no, liberals, disagreeing with his world-view does not make me a racist, just a patriot and a father who cares about the future of his children.
sports analogy
July 31st, 2010
11:21 pm
Obama may be behind in the 2nd quarter but Bush was Cumberland College playing Georgia Tech in 1916.
Much ado about nothing
July 31st, 2010
11:24 pm
We have a great system of checks and balances in our country, and the Republicans will reign in much of Obama’s excesses after the November elections, just as the Dems did to the Republicans back in 2006.
It’s still dysfunctional as hell, but at least it does prevent total self destruction.
Tony
July 31st, 2010
11:31 pm
OK, Left, who had control of Congress the last 4 years of Bush and the last two….can you say DEMOCRATS? Did THEY address illegal immigration? No sir.
So Bush put us in Gitmo…..why can’t Obozo get us out? It should be relatively easy to do if Bush could accomplish it.
Iraq and Afghanistan….notice you left those out. I believe Obozo asked for MORE troops for Afghanistan and is still waffling on getting us out of Iraq. And as far as war crimes go, why would Obozo insist on CONTINUING a war that allegedly begat those crimes we speak of? Why not pack up the equipment and men and bring them home instead of blindly flailing around with no clear objective?
Unemployment? He’s had two years to at least SHOW he is making progress in that sector…..not even a few percentage points. We’re still near double digits. And no relief any time soon. And the deficit is going UP, not down. Bush has been gone awhile…can’t continue to blame him. But then again, that’s what libs like yourself do best, blame somebody else.
Arizona law unconstitutional and racist? All they did was try to do what our Federal Government is SUPPOSED to do and refuses to because it doesn’t want to alienate the “Hispanic Base”. Doesn’t matter a rat’s butt that these people are here illegally, let’s not p–s anybody off by sending them back from whence they came.
Keep whistling past those graves old buddy and keep your head in the sand. I hope your still on here in November when those bums get thrown out. It’s going to happen. And it will be interesting to hear your excuse for why. Very interesting.
jonica gay
July 31st, 2010
11:38 pm
Hatred hatred hatred no wonder the world is slowly dying
too many BIGOTS
crabapplejoe
July 31st, 2010
11:39 pm
“Given their large African-American constituencies, neither Lewis nor Johnson has anything to fear from being photographed at Obama’s side.”
Can you imagine an AJC writer saying “given their large European-American constituencies, neither Tom Price nor Gingrey has anything to fear from being photographed at Bush’s side”….LMAO…its really funny how the press allows that blacks vote strickly along racial lines…and that’s OK with them.
Left in the South
July 31st, 2010
11:47 pm
Tony Repugs still had total at least 4 years of total control.
I guess you can’t count either ……Obama has only been in office for 1yr and 6 months.
As to immigration I guess your an American Indian and truly are the only one who belongs here.
Tony
July 31st, 2010
11:47 pm
jonica gay, bigotry has nothing to do with it.
Obama is a sorry President and would be that way even if he was white, just as George Bush would have been if he were black.
As far as the illegals go, they are just that, ILLEGAL. Wanting them gone is not bigotry. I have no problem with anybody coming here and making a living, as long as they are here LEGALLY, either applying for citizenship or having a green card and paying taxes and SS just like me. These people that leach off the rest of us are not only a slap in our face, but a slap in the face of all the immigrants who ARE here legally.
Anytime anybody has anything bad to say about our current Socialist President, the race card is played. “You all are only against him because he’s black…” There’s your bigotry right there.
Tony
August 1st, 2010
12:00 am
Left, I can tell you know you are on the losing side of the argument now….making snide remarks about my ability to count, and quibbling about a few months more or less that Obama has been in office…..the Dems have been in office since 2007 and the only thing Pelosi and gang have accomplished is to balloon the deficit to record levels and put the national debt to a point where our great great grandchildren will be paying on it. Oh yes, and buy, cajole, and ramrod through a healthcare bill that they EXEMPTED themselves from,,,,,gotta wonder about that.
You still have no answer on Iraq or Afghanistan. If Bush could get us in so easily, why can’t the “Messiah” get us out? Just asking.
Illegal immigrants do not belong here. They are just that, ILLEGAL. If they want to come here then there are plenty of legal ways to do it, but they choose not to, and our Federal government, who is headed by the current President, CHOOSES NOT to do anything about it.
Gitmo? Still didn’t answer me on that other than to say “Bush put us there.” Well, if it was so easy for Bush to “put us there” why can’t your “Messiah” get us out just as easily? Isn’t that where a lot of the “war crimes” you speak of were committed? Why would your champion leave it open? Can’t he issue and executive order closing it down?
Go ahead, pick out something trivial such as a misspelled word or an arithmetical error in my post to hit me with. That seems to be all you have in your arsenal. And it isn’t much.
calvinb
August 1st, 2010
12:11 am
Did I read this right Governor Sonny Purdue will respect the POTUS and meet him. KillJoy Roy will go to the Segergated Prom in Butler, Ga.
Well Gee Jolly Whiz. Well Mr. Governor Purdue whoever you endorse in the Republican Party is who we are going to vote for(as long as its Mr. Deal).
Now, will the AJC write a couple of articles about the Senatorial race. Issakson is in trouble. MICHAEL THURMOND WILL BE THE NEXT JUNIOR SENATOR FROM THE GREAT STATE OF GEORGIA!!!
Lynn Westmoreland’s Phone Poll.
1. Do you support Obama Care?
2. Do you support the 2nd Amendment?
3. Do you think marriage is between a man and a woman?
There were a couple of other asinine questions like that. But I can’t remember them, but you get the picture. Just like the AJC poll of Pres. Obama 37% approval rating. You must had polled just yourselves, because we all know his approvals are much higher than that. Since we are 50% of the vote now. We will exercise our VOTE!!
HANDS THAT ONCE PICKED COTTON, NOW WILL PICK WHOM WE PLEASE!!!
Well, whoever shows up to meet our President, I am sure you presence will be greatly noted. Disappointed, if not surprised by the absence of John Lewis.
calvinb
August 1st, 2010
12:25 am
Hey Progressive Democrats don’t fuss with the Silly repbucli-Ants who have been robbing you all these years. They get their Sixteen Pieces of Silver, War Monger all over the World and get our youth killed and maimed. ]
Then the threw us out of work, trying to ruin the economy so that the public will blame Pres. Obama.
REPUBLIC-ANTS Stick the head of the Butts of Wall Street, and the Rich & Powerful begging for their Welfare Checks, and call anyone who might disagree with them SOCIALIST and worse.
Now they are crying for another TAX CUT for the Rich while they just sit on the money and watch you and me suffer.
Then on top of all they bring about how Solidly “CONSERVATIVE” the South remains. Yeah, Right. We will find out come November!!
No Longer Republican
August 1st, 2010
12:27 am
It really baffles me how some people get sooooooooooooo stupid. Keith Helms and those who agree with his idiotic post are simply that…idiots!!!! Makes me wonder what happened to them to be so friggin stupid.
And Jaunita and the others who say they won’t vote for Barnes because of him not appearing with our President…shame. We have had eight years total idiocracy from the do-noting but build me a fishing hole Sonny Perdue, and if we don’t elect Barnes we get Perdue’s hand picked choice karen Handel or the crook of the Georgia congressional delegation for 18 years Nathan Deal. My God people WAKE UP! Do you not see what 8 years of Republican rule in this state has done???? Are you just mindless and follow what the right wing bloggers and tv pundits say? We have millions to build a fishin hole for Sonny, but we are cutting the school year, increasing class sizes, laying off teachers, charging kids to ride a school bus because we have no money. YET YOU STUPID PEOPLE will still vote for a Republican because your dumb ass preacher who has no college education told you to. I love my home state of Georgia, but I see it quickly fading to be worse than Mississippi or Alabama when it comes to backwardness, Please wake up people!!!
Robert
August 1st, 2010
12:38 am
Pres. Obama still has my vote. This man cant turn things around in a short time give him time. Bush mess this thing up for eight years.
Left in the South
August 1st, 2010
12:48 am
Amen No Longer Republican
Tony I give up you are an f’ng idiot.
As long as Sarah, Rand, Joe Barton (God bless BP), Michelle Bachman and Gov of Arizona keep making headlines Dems will win/
Wow did the Repugs just vote against small bus tax break….wtf….
What’s that Mel Gibson just joined the Repugs!
Call IT
August 1st, 2010
1:33 am
Who cares?
No one wants to hear the Socialist Racist speak as it will not be from the heart!
Barry is done in 2012!
Enough Said!
julia
August 1st, 2010
1:45 am
Why in the hell is he speaking at the Disabled Veterans of America convention? They should have run his off long ago
Garry Owen
August 1st, 2010
2:31 am
Don’t you just love it when the Dems complain about the Republicans not supporting the legislation the Dems put forth? Maybe if the Dems would stop putting sneaky legislation as a rider on major bills the Dems could get more Republican support. And by the way – in 2014 when you are trying to see a doctor call your Democratic member of Congress and see how his/her health plan is working, you know the one us common citizens can not have!
Tony
August 1st, 2010
3:30 am
Well, I can see Left finally ran out of ammo. Never answered me on Iraq, Afghanistan, or gave me a reason why the “messiah” couldn’t close Gitmo either……I guess he loves supporting ILLEGAL aliens with his taxes, that is, if he EVEN pays taxes, he//, he might even be one. Couldn’t explain why the Dems in Congress EXEMPTED themselves from THEIR own healthcare plan but forced it down our throats. No, all he could come up with was “You’re a f—ng idiot.”
Yep, typical lib response. And that’s why they’re in for a beating come November. And in his commie heart I believe he knows that.
Georgia Pete
August 1st, 2010
4:37 am
YOU MORONS WHO DON’T KNOW ENGLISH….GET THIS. tHERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS DISRESPECTED. YOU DON’T DISRESPECT SOME ONE. YOU SHOW DISRESPECT. YOU SHOW YOUR IDIOCY WHEN YOU SAY “THEY DISREXPECTED HIM” WHEN YOU SHOULD BE SAYING THEY SHOWED HIM DISRESPECT. ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE PEOPLE OF COLOR WHO SAY THAT. AND N O, NOT A RACIST. JUST TIRED OF PEOPLE TRYING TO ACT INTELLIGENT BUT CAN’T SEEM TO GRASP SIMPLE PROPER ENGLISH USAGE. IDIOTS!
HCo
August 1st, 2010
4:58 am
I think Obama is doing a good job. He is facing extraordinary challenges and trying to do what he thinks is good for the country. He realizes most folks in Georgia do not agree with him. He is just here to speak to the veterans. We should be asking what his policies are for veterans and whether they are better or worse than in years past. An article on who is meeting him at the airport is really useless.
calvinb
August 1st, 2010
5:24 am
Mark Shields: GOP playing dangerous game
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Mike Murphy, the successful and shrewd Republican media strategist, is a heretic within his own party. Sensitive to the near-universal reverence Republicans of all ages pay to the legacy and presidency of Ronald Reagan, Murphy bluntly warns his fellow GOPers that — given the profound, and continuing, demographic changes over the past three decades — Ronald Reagan would have a tough time beating Jimmy Carter today.
Consider this reality. In his 1980 race against President Carter, when Gov. Reagan won 56 percent of the nation’s white vote, whites comprised 88 percent of the total national electorate. Simply stated, Reagan’s 1980 share of the white vote alone constituted 49.3 percent of all voters. This meant that for the Gipper to achieve his overall 51 percent majority he simply had to earn the support of one out of seven non-white voters — which is what he did.
But by 2008, enormous changes were taking place. The white share of the national vote had fallen to 74 percent. So Reagan’s 56 percent share of that group would have translated into just 41.2 percent of all voters. Demographic shifts, by themselves, would have subtracted more than 8 percentage points from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory margin.
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Mike Murphy uses facts such as these as a reminder that nobody can live in the past and succeed politically. Having worked for a couple of dozen Republican candidates — including John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger — Murphy has real credibility when he warns his party that anti-immigrant rhetoric of the variety heard from — mostly losing — Republican candidates in 2008 and 2010 could doom the party of Abraham Lincoln and Reagan to permanent minority status.
Consider California, where Murphy now lives. In 2008, whites were just 63 percent of the total state vote. African-American, Latino, Asian and other totaled 37 percent. By Murphy’s calculations, unless Republicans can dramatically improve their following among those groups of voters (whom Barack Obama carried collectively by more than 75 percent), Republican candidates will be required to win a minimum two out of three California white votes in order to win a statewide election. In 2008, John McCain received 46 percent of the votes of white Californians.
California is a case study of what can happen. Between 1948 and 1992, the Republicans carried the Golden State in every presidential election — except for LBJ’s 1964 landslide. But since then, the Democrats have carried California in five consecutive presidential elections. In a reminder of political consequences, Republicans should remember that Pete Wilson used menacing TV spots featuring footage of illegal immigrants to win re-election while endorsing Proposition 187, which banned undocumented immigrants from receiving public services, including public education or medical care.
As 2008 could very well turn out, that 1994 campaign provided a short-term political advantage to Wilson and the GOP. But two years later, two committed civil-rights Republicans on the national ticket, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, won barely one out of five Latino votes in California, while losing the state. Since Proposition 187, no California Republican has won a U.S. Senate race.
Even more alarming for Republicans, the white share of the overall U.S. population is predicted by Census projections to drop to 60 percent by 2020. Another cautionary note: The lion’s share of the Latino growth over the next generation will not come from immigration but rather from the children of past immigrants who already live here.
In fact, Democratic pollster Peter Hart predicts that Texas — the reddest Republican of the nation’s big states — will, because of its fast-growing Hispanic population, by 2024 — just four presidential elections away — have become a Democratic blue state.
Over the remaining three and a half months of the 2010 campaign, the future competitiveness of the Republican Party nationally may well hinge on whether GOP candidates can resist in these difficult economic times the cheap demagoguery of immigrant-blaming and instead seek common cause with the new and ever-changing American electorate.
Mark Shields, Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA, 90045.
Read more: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/07/24/1204761/gop-playing-dangerous-game.html#ixzz0vLQfyLv6
NOTSO FAST
August 1st, 2010
6:22 am
WOW…..Are we sure that we rank as high as 49th out of 50 states in education??? I doubt it after reading all of this. It just proves that our Country is in a real mess.
Mike
August 1st, 2010
7:15 am
@Georgia Pete
You’re upset? How can you call out anyone for the use of any word and say that, “always seems to be people of color who say that. and n o, not a racist. Just tired of people trying to act intelligent but can’t seem to grasp simple proper english usage. Idiots!”
With the “run-on” sentences you have provided, you need to sit down and shut up. When you figure out your errors, try again! Remember, don’t call the KETTLE BLACK. YALL COME BACK NOW, HEAR?
Jim Nichols
August 1st, 2010
7:24 am
you don’t ever see much talk about the dixiecrat issue… there is still a small fringe that are still mad at Lyndon Johnson… which help explains part of the Tea Party boom just so happening to pop up as the demographics of this nation shift away from the world that the angry white middle aged men nearing retirement remember.
30 years of economic decline via the Reagan revolution can create a lot of desperate angry people. Just ask people questions about the health care bill or stimulus. For people so concerned about health care the Republican base is shockingly ill informed about RomneyCare; ditto for the stimulus and macro economy as a whole…
These aren’t racial issues per say… but more demographic shifts which are happening at the start of the new media era when fox news and talk radio are beamed into homes and well funded think tanks spit out sounds good feels good talking points. With a million dollars and some well targeted bullet points you can exploit the decline of the middle class and fears about the future to make people believe up is down and black is white… center right Democrats are Socialists…
“The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosphies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 9
Mike
August 1st, 2010
7:25 am
@Dawg 88
It’s amazing that you would point out the approval rating of the POTUS, without pointing out the approval rating of your own elected officials. Chambliss and Issakson’s ratings are hovering around 11%! If I was a gambling man, I would take Obama to Vegas over those two anyday!
Besides, what does his approval ratings have to do with the Veterans? Georgia didn’t vote for him. The funny thing about you hypocrites, you took all the money that was offered (Stimulus Pkg.) without blinking an eye. Remember, Reagan numbers were terrible in 1982. Clinton numbers were terrible, and he lost Congress in 94. Guess what? They both went on to get re-elected in landslides! The mid-terms brings out Independents. That’s why the President has been trying to be “bi-partisan”. After the mid-terms, win, lose or draw, watch how he changes. If you think he’s a Socialist now, just wait! LOL
mike
August 1st, 2010
7:27 am
It is very sad to see and read the same old stuff from the same old people day in and day out. The reason this country is in the predicament it is in because of people who look like the author. Yes you folks have ran this country into the ground and refuse to accept your responsibility for it. It has always been easier for you to blame those other folks who have the darker skin for the errors that you as a people have made throughout history not only in this country but overseas. Call it lunch, Obama care, socialism or whatever you want to name it. When you and others of your mindset try to do something positive for this country please chime in. Otherwise keep being the homegrown trouble you folks have seemed to perfected over the years of this stolen country. You really have something to be proud of. To be able to get up every morning and spout all that negativity. What a waste.
Bitter EX democrackkk
August 1st, 2010
7:45 am
STRIVE to be SMARTER than the ORIGINAL ‘party’ of SLAVERY *WANTS* you to BE!
The democrackkk ‘party’ is THE MOST EVIL FORCE that affects our once great nation. It is TIME to SHUT their asses DOWN for their far reaching CRIMINALITY! OUTLAW THEM NOW!
Lisa
August 1st, 2010
7:50 am
progressive = statist = communist
Don’t kid y9ourself – the pigs are on their hind legs people!
GWBFORLIFE
August 1st, 2010
7:52 am
George W. Bush’s Resume
George W. Bush (Dubya)
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Past Work Experience
Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
Bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
With father’s help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments in Previous Positions
Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
Set record for most executions by any governor in American history.
Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments As President
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the ‘poorest’ multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
With a policy of ‘disengagement’ created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden ‘dead or alive.’
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Records and References
At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available)
AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.
Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father’s library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (they can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
outspoken1
August 1st, 2010
7:54 am
who blames the stay aways?. I would not go near that man if we were at The Varsity at the same time. I would move away before anyone was able to snap a shot of us being in the same place at the same time. The man is a cancer and will grow fast and deadly.
STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY!
Alex
August 1st, 2010
8:24 am
Roy Barnes can duck the President if wants that’s typical Georgia politics as usual. The sad part is Roy is trying to gain the support of a constituency that will not vote for him simply because the Rethuglicans have been successful in defining Democrats in this state even though I can think of nothing significant that Perdue has not for this state beside running it into the ground. Southern whites do not like Obama and the reasons are obvious people can say well he is a so called liberal, or something else stupid and ignorant like calling him a Socialist so that they don’t have to say their true reason. Run Roy Run, you still will not get the votes of those you are seeking and some people simply enjoy voting against their own interests.
Fort Pillow
August 1st, 2010
8:26 am
Roy comes to South Georgia looking for votes. Are you kidding me? What kind of fools do you think we are down South. Roy is the one who got the Kennedy award for changing the Flag and now he pretends to be one of us? Let us write the final chapter in his defeat in 2002!
kkong
August 1st, 2010
8:35 am
Hate rules!
MiltonMan
August 1st, 2010
8:59 am
Let’s see the Clown-in-Chief skips out of meeting with the Boy Scouts to go on the View. He now is coming to Georgia & only a couple of DemoRats will meet with him. What a cancer this clown is.
MiltonMan
August 1st, 2010
9:00 am
Alex = playing the race card. The clown must be a by-product of the crappy APS system.
Madelyn Clare
August 1st, 2010
9:09 am
Some of us are disabled, and cannot afford the 1,000 entry level ticket. For the record, I’d do just about anything to see him, but just don’t have the moola!
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
10:09 am
To ‘A’ and ‘Left the South’(thank god and Greyhound your’e gone)…
B.O. is not I repeat NOT white…..
You DA PEOPLE need to wake up and smell the java…
This fool is destroying our (once) great nation.
He is a Muslim, 100 % black trouble…
Keep blaming Bush as our problem.
Tally up the debt we will NEVER get out from under after his 4 devestating years.
He will NOT and I repeat NOT be re-elected..
And if you don’t like GEORGIA and what she has ALWAYS stood for, then get the HELL out.
Don’t let the welcome signs of Tennessee, S.C., Florida and ALADAMBAMA hit you in your arse upon exiting this once and again great state..
tyrace
August 1st, 2010
10:14 am
Listen people we have the best Man for the job. The President took over a car with no Engine and it going to take some time to get back on track. You hillbillies need to stop hating and enbrace the magic we have the best and coolest President ever and he has a nice jump shot two. That what up enjoy history beening made you hillbillies we need a change.
Juanita J
August 1st, 2010
10:17 am
TO: no longer Republican: First of all, I am not a dumb a…; secondly, I did not say I was going to vote Republican. I said I was not voting for those Demoncratics who have turned their back on OUR PRESIDENT. Yes, I realize what it means to Georgia and the USA to have Republicans run Georgia. I understand. I understand that a house divided can not stand… I’m trying to send a message that we EXPECT the ones who want our vote, to respect and support Mr. Obama. Whether they agree with everything or not. I don’t agree with Everything that Mr. O stands on. However, being a candidate for the Governor of Georgia….and Barnes leaves town… I don’t think so. Do you really think that the Democrats running for office should leave town and not want to be associated with the Pres of the US.. You think about. What Message are they sending? Remember Zell Miller was a democrat and changed to a Republican and so did Nathan Deal.. We really don’t know what we are getting. I admit I had more faith in Mr. Barnes. I had been advocating and promoting him for election. (unpaid) trying to be a good citizen. But I stand by what I say..If he is ashame to associate with Mr. Pres. O…then I am ashame of him.
To: George Pete: Just because someone misuses a “word” doesn’t mean they are not intelligent and it certainly does not reflect that they are “black”.. And just because people vote for Mr. O. doesn’t mean that they are BLACK…….. MAYBE YOU CAN BE OF GREAT ASSISTANCE IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
10:28 am
tyrace and juanita j are 2 good examples of idiots who vote skin color and not with intelligence , plain and simple.
THEY DISPLAY THEIR TRUE IGNORANCE RIGHT HERE FREQUENTLY…
luangtom
August 1st, 2010
10:47 am
It is good and well that a sitting President addresses Disabled Veterans of America. But, why is it some are being denied access to the event because they did not get invited? I find it hard to deny access to a venue for disabled vets because they are not part of the organizational hierarchy. Are they still not disabled veterans? The President is THEIR CiC, too.
Actually, none of the Democrats running for office should be onstage with the President. It is, afterall, a program for Disabled Veterans of America, not the Democratic Party.
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
10:55 am
luangtom…… try getting through to the thick headed oblama lickers who support him ON THIS BLOG.
They are eat up with ( what my daddy called ( the dumb arse )
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
11:09 am
Well, I see the “Blame Bush” boys are hard at work. I guess that is a democrat ploy: since you can’t defend your leader, heap blame on the previous administration.
The economic woes this nation is experiencing are the responsibility of the democrats, beginning with FDR. His “New Deal” bespoke the idea that government is great and more government is better government. He truly started the “entitlement” mentality that exists today. FDR didn’t bring the country out of the depression – World War II did.
Moving on to LBJ, we find the “entitled” people of this country making great gains under the “Great Society”. Johnson’s accomplishments (if you want to call them that) were numerous. Unfortunately, as well as cosring this nation money it didn’t have, LBJ destroyed the black family. Welfare payments made to “single mothers” made marriage and the family a financial liability. The unforseen fruit of the “Great Society” are the violent crimes committed by blacks (often against other blacks) in the streets of America today. The lack of a father in black households combined with poor or no parenting skills are a direct result of the “Great Society”.
Black children who want to study hard in school and achieve educational excellence are taunted by their peers and accused of “acting white”. This form of racism can only be learned within their families, and does great harm to black children.
Since the majority of blacks fail to see the opportunity that this country offers smart, educated people and, for the most part, do not avail themselves of the educations available to them, they look to an Obama to give them that which they have not earned. The problem with that lies in one simple fact: somebody has to produce, manufacture, plant, cultivate, sell or service something in order for taxes to be paid for redistribution. And the working folks who pay the taxes are growing increasingly tired of producing to support the non-productive, both black and white.
Unfortunately for the producers and the non-productive, Obama’s plans have little to do with what is good in America, but rather the destruction of this once great nation. He is well on his way to success.
So, black folks, stay on the democrat plantation and do what the “Massa” tell you to do, “Vote democrat”.
And, white folks, continue to impress people with your non-racists views and vote liberal democrat.
The end is near . . .
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
11:17 am
WELL SAID BILLY JOE… I COULD’NT HAVE SAID IT BETTER.
A LOT OF BLACKS THOUGHT WHEN MR. MUSSY WAS ELECTED IT WAS THEIR TIME TO RIDE ON THAT BICYCLE BUILT FOR 2 WITH THEIR FEET UP IN THE AIR AND THEIR HANDS BEHIND THEIR HEAD IN THE BACK SEAT WHILE WHITEY PEDDLED AWAY SWEATING LIKE CRAZY….
WAIT UNTIL THEY GET TAXED EVERY TIME THEY FERT (REPLACE THE ‘E’ WIT AN ‘A’ ) AND THEY WILL SAY
” WHAT HAPPENED “?
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
11:43 am
@luangtom
“But, why is it some are being denied access to the event because they did not get invited?”
There is a simple answer to that question. Obama will only appear in very carefully managed venues. The people appearing with him must be both black and white, and they must not give any appearance of being a threat at these events by asking him any controversial questions. They have to appear as an attentive, almost worshipful audience offering only kudos to his greatness.
td
August 1st, 2010
11:58 am
All of this bickering back and forth is useless and it is not going to matter in this years election cycle. There were a great deal of voters in this state (who are not into politics and only usually vote in presidential elections) took a chance a believed Obama when he said he was a moderate. His actions since taking office have made them embarrassed and angry. This silent majority will come out to the polls in Nov and send the President a message. They will go into the booth and punch a straight republican ticket. They will not know anything about the candidates and the Dems are going to suffer. All state wide elected offices will be held by Republicans and at least one if not two of the Democratic congressmen will be booted out of office.
If you do not believe the above statement then put your money where you mouth (typewriter) is and make a bet Any takers?
Aksarben
August 1st, 2010
12:09 pm
A lot of people took a chance on Mr. Obama, and they have serious buyer’s remorse. He isn’t a post-racial president, he isn’t a centrist, he isn’t different than any other politician, and the fact that he fooled so many people into voting for him, is indicative of his ability to give a rousing speech. But he hasn’t a clue how to govern … and has never gotten out of campaign mode. He has forgotten – or perhaps never realized — he is the president of all the people. Not just liberals. Not just democrats. He is going to get a loud message in November about the cost of flaunting the will of the American people. I just “hope” he can learn from it.
DHD
August 1st, 2010
12:10 pm
Thanks for the warning.
DAN DEACON
August 1st, 2010
12:17 pm
obama is a lame, unrepentive organizer that’s actually very good at talking a game he doesn’t understand or has the ability to play. He lies almost everytime his lips are moving.
The veterans should protest him speaking or coming to Georgia for that matter. His delay in sending troops to Afghanistan, when a real man that knows how to lead soldiers (Gen. McChrytal) requested them to help support the troops in the heat of battle. There is no telling how many innocent, brave American soldiers were killed as a result of obama’s inaction and impotent ability to perform his duty.
STAND IN THE STREETS AND PROTEST THIS SOCIALISM/DICTATOR DRIVEN IDIOT. HE DOESN’T SUPPORT IN ACTION OUR VETERANS….ONLY THROUGH HIS B.S. HE SPEWS EVERYTIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH. REAL MEN SHOW LEADERSHIP ABILITY AND DON’T RUN THEIR MOUTH ABOUT IT. OBAMA SHOULD LEARN FROM THOSE LEADERS. HE MAY CAN BECOME A REAL MAN THEN.
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
12:23 pm
VERY GOOD, DAN.. I AGREE
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
12:25 pm
I guess I’ve been black-balled for expressing opinions.
barry
August 1st, 2010
12:26 pm
Roy Barnes you lost my vote. Jim Marshall you lost yours too……
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
12:32 pm
I can’t post more than one or two sentences at the time. I guess I’m about done due to some sort of censorship being used here.
Geralyn
August 1st, 2010
12:33 pm
I’m curious . . . why is it necessary to refer to Barack Obama as our African American President? Get over it already. Do we refer to Hillary Clinton as our Caucasian Secretary of State.
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
12:36 pm
GERBLYN……… BECAUSE HE AINT OUR WHITE PRESIDENT, THATS WHY……………
Geralyn
August 1st, 2010
12:38 pm
The name is Geralyn and you seem to enjoy advertising how illiterate you are.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
12:42 pm
Can you imagine it? The AJC is censoring my comments!
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
12:44 pm
@J.B. STONER
Hang in there – for as long as you can. I guess I’m limited to one-line posts now!
MarcyDarcy
August 1st, 2010
12:44 pm
Letter for Obama.
“15 million Americans are out of work, and a further 10 million cannot find
a full-time job, at a time when 8 million illegal aliens have jobs.
Millions of American families are having trouble paying their mortgage and putting food
on the table, but you seem to be more concerned with protecting individuals
who have stolen American jobs and broken American laws.
Any comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens is just plain wrong and goes against
the wishes of the vast majority of the American people.
25 million Americans are either unemployed or cannot find a full-time job
and they are depending on you to do the right thing and oppose amnesty.
Why are you letting these Americans down by supporting amnesty?”
Jobs for American Workers, NOT Illegal Aliens !
Urge your Members of Congress to Oppose President Obama’s Call for Amnesty.
Google this: NUMBERSUSA .
Once you are registered, go to the “action buffet” to send FREE faxes now.
They are all typed up and ready to go, you just need to click your mouse to send.
Forward this to everyone you know.
concerned American
August 1st, 2010
12:48 pm
This president is absolutely the worst in American history. He is a advocate of Socialism/Marxism which would eventually lead to Communism. I can’t see how any true American would have voted for this man or any of the idiots he is associated with. You people are either blind as heck or want this country to fall to Socialism. God help us if the latter is the truth and may God Bless the USA. I would not listen to this man speak because anything he has to say will be far from the truth.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
12:50 pm
@MarcyDarcy
Obama has chosen to take sides with a foreign country (Mexico) against a sovereign state of the United States (Arizona). I would like to think that sending those faxes or messages will work but fear that it will not.
Brother Man
August 1st, 2010
12:52 pm
Hey Georgia Pete at 4:37am blog. If you are so smart, you may want correct your entire paragraph of capital letters, ok Mr. Smart guy.
What a nerd bitch.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
12:52 pm
@concerned American
Is it remotely possible that Obama is one of the peace-loving muslims, and that his intent is the utter destruction of America?
Charles
August 1st, 2010
12:55 pm
I agree with this.. who wants to be linked to the so-called great one.. the one who is the most anti-business president in the history of this country. Georgia has got real problems with unemployment, budget deficits, the threat of higher taxes, etc, . Most Georgians agree that the only way for the economy to start healing is to LOWER TAXES! But the so-called messiah doesn’t agree, he believes in taxing the you-know-what out of people, especially those who are the job creators! I think those candidates who are hoping to win in Nov. are very wise to stay away from this train wreak!!
Beauteefullaydee
August 1st, 2010
12:59 pm
I vote democratic and I will not make it to the poll in November either (Barnes you disappoint me). I’ve read all of the comments and the idiots that post in here are extreme racists and they deserve to be taken to a field, tied to a leafless tree, and baked alive in this hot sun.
art
August 1st, 2010
1:01 pm
Man, I’d get away from Obama, too. Who would want to stand next to somneone who reeks of low-class liberalism. Roy Barnes is trying to play the Southern plantation squire, “the Negroes can go high up in government, just not get too close to us white folks.”
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
1:03 pm
It will matter little what any future governor does in Georgia to promote jobs. Businessess and those with venture capital able to start a business aren’t going to invest as long as the political climate in Washington, D.C. remains at it is – unfriendly to business. Owners and potential owners of businessess are sitting on their money until the political climate improves.
SJHS
August 1st, 2010
1:04 pm
I was unsure about voting for Michael Thurmond for U. S. Senate, although, personally, I like and admire the man. However, the fact that he is willing to stand with President Obama — and not be all mealy-mouthed and wishy-washy because of perceived “politics” — means he will have my vote. I am sick of elected officials doing what is politically advantageous for the moment instead of what they know is the right thing to do. For the record, I am white and I vote as an independent without regard to party affiliation.
Bill
August 1st, 2010
1:09 pm
I will give Obama the same respect that I would give Hugo Chavez if he was visiting. Obama is the only person alive that has made Carter look competent.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
1:10 pm
@SJHS
“However, the fact that he is willing to stand with President Obama — and not be all mealy-mouthed and wishy-washy because of perceived “politics” — means he will have my vote. ”
You have my sympathy. I will pray for your recovery.
DAN DEACON
August 1st, 2010
1:15 pm
M Thurmond making an appearance with obama demonstrates the poor leadership and impotent platform he runs on. He is labor commiss for the state with one of the highest unemployment rates. Is that who you want in DC as a senator? Absolutely not!! You want someone successful, like the honorable Senator Johnny Isakson, that has voted for the people’s wishes of this great state and has done a superb, honest and ethical job. Thurmond is just a typical joke that thinks he has a chance of gaining a senator seat through ignorant blacks that vote only on color lines.
Maycomb
August 1st, 2010
1:21 pm
Roy is a’runnin’ cause Obama’sa’ commin’
The president is massively unpopular in Georgia and Roy is already too closely associated with liberal causes to want to have pics on the evening news standing next to Obama. Or any of the others.
He was glad to have endorsements from the black community in his primary battle but does not want to get too closely associated with them in public. Remember, Ol’ Roy was a John Edawards supporter. You know, one of his trial lawyer buddies.
GeorgeW
August 1st, 2010
1:22 pm
I am amazed how so many people are pointing fingers at each other. The truth of the matter is when the democrats are in office the right side point out the flaws and when the republicans are in office the left side point out their flaws. We are all Americans and we all suffer when either side makes a bad decision and believe me every president makes good and bad decisions that is part of being a leader. To all that is making this a race issue and are making derogatory comments are truly not advocates of democracy. What needs to happen for America to get better is we agree to disagree but be respectful. America has issues but with all of us working together these issues can be resolved. The comments on this blog sound as if we are in 1960. If you do not agree with the president that is okay, but be very careful with your words because some of you are committing treason. Please read your constitution. And that goes with any president. I encourage all you to read and read multiple publications and gain an understanding rather than being mislead. God Bless America.
Glen
August 1st, 2010
1:24 pm
I voted for Barnes in the primary, but now I’ll be staying home in November. I’ll take my chances with another Republican Governor rather than voting for a Democrat without the balls to show respect to his party’s leader. This to me is an indication of what he’ll do if elected and faced with an tough decision.
Meka
August 1st, 2010
1:30 pm
JUST MAYBE, we will STOP OUTSOURCING the MANUFACTURING OF THE AMERICAN FLAG—–VETERAN’S NEED THOSE JOBS!!!
kate
August 1st, 2010
1:33 pm
GIVE ME A BREAK AS MUCH AS YA’LL COMPLAIN ABOUT OBAMA, WHY THE HELL DIDN’T YA’LL COMPALIN ABOUT BUSH WHO BROUGHT US TO WHERE WE ARE?
Please give the Predisent a Break, he can only do so much , after all your complains are due to the fact that ya’ll never thought you will see a black man as a president. GET OVER IT.
Mike
August 1st, 2010
1:36 pm
I was on the fence in the congressional race between Jim Marshall & Austin Scott. Mr. Marshall’s refusal to attend Czar Obama’s Atlanta visit has convinced me that he is the candidate I will vote for.
Family in GA since 1784
August 1st, 2010
1:37 pm
“U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, who faces yet another Republican challenger, has plans to help his daughter move”…..When a person would rather help someone else move furniture, rather than have lunch with the President of the The United States of America, that is not an endorsement of the President.
UGA Mom
August 1st, 2010
1:40 pm
While I am delighted that the President is FINALLY honoring disabled vets – there is a not a more worthy group in the country-I think the White House is reading the polls and watching the Democrats slide into oblivion. I don’t support this President, nor ANY of his attempts to hijack the economy via the takeover of Wall Street, GM and/or the healthcare plan.
I think the President is an avowed Socialist and is a clear and present danger to our economic system and American liberties. And NO this is not a black or white thing -this is a GREEN thing. There are currently nearly 15 million people either out of work or under employed. Getting our economy back on track and producing jobs needs to be JOB ONE! Small business folks need to be able to hire people.
How many jobs are going to be produced when they are staring at the Bush tax cuts expiring, healthcare costs for employees going through the roof, and getting access to capital (as in loans to purchase new inventory or buy that new truck for the company) is nearly impossible. Nobody in their right minds are going to hire facing those challenges.
The White House doesn’t get it. Nobody in this administration has EVER worked in small business (the source of nearly 85% of all new job growth). Roy Barnes is no dummy and neither are the people of this state. Nobody wants to be associated with this guy and/or his programs.Georgia democrats are walking a very difficult line distancing themselves from the President and his agenda, and I predict this state will probably post record Republican gains come November. I’ll be dleighted and so will my unemployed freinds and family.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
1:41 pm
@kate
That’s right: blame Bush. That is right out of the dummycrat playbook. God forbid that Obama take responsibility for his own actions, or inactions. Bush is history and Obama “be your main man” now. He’s “talked the talk” but he ain’t “walking the walk”. You know what I mean?
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
1:51 pm
@UGA Mom
“The White House doesn’t get it. Nobody in this administration has EVER worked in small business (the source of nearly 85% of all new job growth).”
I don’t think they care. Their purpose is to install a new system of government. The only way that is possible is to collapse the existing system. After they achieve that, they will begin the move to a Marxist/Socialist system wherein we shall all be equally destitute. Thus will come the “change you can believe in” with no “hope” in heaven of a future for our children and grandchildren.
Dr. Warren
August 1st, 2010
2:08 pm
I’m a native Georgian, born in the 60’s, and I am white. I know racism when I see it. Not showing up to support a president from your own party, for fear of losing votes, just seems like the same ‘ole same ‘ole to me.
DAN DEACON
August 1st, 2010
2:09 pm
kate…..just like a little child!! You just can’t accept responsiblity for your lame dumb”a” vote for obama and the fact that he can’t handle the job. He’s just a puppet getting ready to fall due to his inability to get the job done. Not what you claim – blamed because he’s black. Take your little toys and go home and cry in private in the bedroom. No real American wants to hear how blacks can’t do the job because they’re just being blamed by whites. Again, the fact is obama is incapable of doing the job and is less than a real man for lying to the American citizens that he could and would.
IMPEACH OBAMA 2010!! LOOK FOR THE TEA PARTY. THEY’RE COMIN AND HELL’S COMIN WITH EM! ALL IN THE NAME OF TAKING BACK AMERICA AND PUTTING BACK ON TRACK THROUGH REAL LEADERS WHO CAN LEAD.
Alex
August 1st, 2010
2:35 pm
@ Billy Joe Poteet , DUDE, Dubya mucking up the country is not an opinion it is a fact and blaming opinion for ruining this country in friggin 18 months is ludicrous and str8ght out of the Rethuglican, crackpot, nutjobs playbook. Unbelieveable, the people in this world and state just say you don’t like the black guy running the country and stop lying to yourself!!!!!
Richmond County ex
August 1st, 2010
2:35 pm
After reading all of these right-wing comments and insults to the President, I’m even more glad I left Georgia 30+ years ago. To this day, I’m ashamed of the state of my birth. Don’t bother insulting me because of this post, ’cause I won’t revisit this blog. By the way, in case you haven’t realized it, I’m a registered Democrat and proud of what President Obama is trying to accomplish.
askip32
August 1st, 2010
2:36 pm
Obama told me to learn FRENCH, so thaz wen I stoppped larning English, besides with all the mexicans I should be laringing toco bell? But I do agree width Georgia Peat!
Alex
August 1st, 2010
2:38 pm
@ Dan Deacon, Just say you hate the black guy running the country and stop fooling yourself and making damn excuses. I never knew how many friggin Nazis still existed. Not even worth getting into a long debate, it’s like talking to a brick!!!
Alex
August 1st, 2010
2:40 pm
@ askip32, learning Taco Bell?…..not racist though, I bet, huh. You people’s hatred for everything not anglo-saxon is sickening. Too bad that you’re about to be a minority, so you probally should Spanish, Jerk!!!!
uno
August 1st, 2010
2:55 pm
Repent sinners.
PLEASE TAKE US BACK 2 DA 1950'S GUD OLE BOY DAYS
August 1st, 2010
3:08 pm
PLEASE TEA PARTY AND REPUBLICANS TAKE US BACK PASS THE 1950′S SO WE CAN STAY THE DUMBEST STATE IN THE NATION,OOPS I FORGOT THAT GEORGIA IS THE DUMBEST STATE IN THE UNION AND REDNECKS THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THE WORLD HOW SUPER STUPID YOU HICKS ARE!
on looker
August 1st, 2010
3:11 pm
i can’t say anything that already hasn’t been said…i am a soldier, i for one like to see how thing are going to end reather then make asumpions….he is the commander an Chief and i respect that. We may not agree on all thing and that ok, but this country and our future depend on all of us…i serve with both black, white, and every kind of ethic back ground you and think of. When you are in a fire fight that is the last thing on your mind.( i will die for him and he will die for me)on team on fight. I do know this as long as we can be seperated by race gender or and other catogory them want be able to win any fight. and time in our history every war ever social issue the mass had to come together despite out differance and fight as one to win. The Patiort act took away your rights as citizen and other law like that. have any notice that anytime some need to be pass it always base on race or protecting your from some unknown evil force. I think at this point in History we are our on worse enemy. wheather you are a racist or not this our house and at the end of the day we have to clean it up and shape the future for our children because i don’t think any one or race is going any where. Some you used God in statement to justifie what you were saying how crazy can we get. God allows us the right to chose our on path and thing that we do we have to pay the price at judgement time. If God will turst us with that responsibility why does man have a problem with it. we are in tuff time and everyone want to blame some for there problems all i as is just look at the whole picture and not be so close minded and get your new resource for differant place. most of the people on this site that are writting these replys are not rich or were born rich…we are just citizen that what the best for our families….some days i wish is could close my eyes and judge people by the way they treat me. I guess that will never happen because T.V may sure that race alway play part in what ever is going on…..right, wrong or indefferant a nation divided against it’s self will not stand……what is color but a shade…one our down fall in the future will be the color issue if we don’t resolve soon….Obama i suport you and you have done some good thing and you have mad some bad decisions that is to be expected of any leader… You have the will to except those bad one and learn that is the mark of a good….on behalf of the soldier i know we welcome you to Georgia…Have a blessed day..forgive the misspell word i was in a rush will do better next time. i just hope you get the meaning behind what i am tring to say. God bless.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
3:14 pm
@Alex
“DUDE”? I thought that word went out with the 70’s. You just don’t get it! It isn’t about race at all.
But then, you will never get it – and they can’t transplant brains yet, or in your specific case, implant one where none existed before.
Richard Williams
August 1st, 2010
3:14 pm
I, hope the Georgia Republicn Party gets photos of those Democrats that attend the fundraiser and uses against them in Nov
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
3:17 pm
@on looker
May God bless and protect you. Thank you for your service to our country. It is deeply and sincerely appreciated.
halle
August 1st, 2010
3:18 pm
I wonder why Jim consistently eludes to President Obama being the first African-American president when in fact he’s biracial. It’s such a shame we as Americans can’t get pass color and focus on the important issues to better the country. I wouldn’t be so quick to infer because you consider President Obama to be black that all black people will vote for him or others associated with him. That’s such a small minded and closed statement. If I applied Jim’s theory to the governor’s race, it would suggest that Karen Handel who is a white female will garner all of the white female votes in the state of Georgia.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
3:20 pm
@Richmond County ex
Good to see you go! Now, y’all stay away, you hear?
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
3:26 pm
@halle
“all black people will vote for him”. All black people did NOT vote for Obama. I believe the statistic was above 95%, but it may have been a little more. I guess it’s close to “all” to make such a statement.
MsWoman
August 1st, 2010
3:42 pm
PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO:
8/28/2006-Peter Schiff Predicts The US Economic Collapse With Unbelievable Accuracy
Obama is not a sorry President. I think he’s done a wonderful job so far and I will vote for him again. I see where a lot of you are coming from though – I am disappointed your judgment isn’t better.
ATL
August 1st, 2010
3:44 pm
I voted for Roy in the Primaries, now that he have shown his true color, I will not vote for Roy in the General. PRESIDENT OBAMA IN 2012. F**K ROY IN 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
halle
August 1st, 2010
3:50 pm
Billy Joe Poteet it’s a sin to hate and furthermore stats can be manipulated.
Millicent
August 1st, 2010
3:57 pm
For the very first time in my life…I will not vote in a major election. Mr. Barnes, I’m ashamed of you. I’m from South Georgia and your reason for not appearing with the President of the United States at a Democratic fundraiser is very clear. You will not have this black vote!
ATL
August 1st, 2010
3:57 pm
The President have a 32% approval rating in Georgia is a lie, nobody poll me!
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
4:16 pm
@halle
The only thing I hate is the way America is being destroyed from within by the Marxist/Socialist Obama and his cohorts. I do not want America to be forced into poverty by these people. I want the best for my children and grandchildren and not what is in the offing. I want the best for your family, too. Unfortunately, unless Obama and the progressive liberals are removed, neither your family nor mine will know the freedom, security and relative prosperity that we have enjoyed. Even the poorest among us enjoy a higher standard of living than most of the rest of the world. Capitalism is what has made that possible.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
4:19 pm
@ATL
“The President have a 32% approval rating in Georgia is a lie, nobody poll me!”
That’s OK” they “poll” me and I told them you didn’t approve of Obama either!
Meredith Paulson
August 1st, 2010
4:37 pm
Has it crossed anyone’s mind, that maybe these people just have other scheduled meetings that take precedence over smudging and rubbing elbows with our President. Two are campaigning (IN AN ELECTION YEAR), one is helping his daughter move to college (Sorry, but my kid’s the most important thing to me too), and one is in Washington (DOING HIS JOB!). So, maybe I’m the lost one in this story….I don’t know. But, it just seems like these people that will be absent HAVE A LIFE! Jim, you should try to get one too (and one that doesn’t involve dreaming up conspiracy and drama where there is none) *shrugs*
Meredith Paulson
August 1st, 2010
4:44 pm
@on looker. You said it best! My husband has 12 years in. People like you and him, AND our President make me proud to be an American. God speed soldier,
ObamaisaLair
August 1st, 2010
4:49 pm
I voted for this Mistake one time and will not make that mistake again.How blind do you have to be to see that truth about this LAIR.I never thought I would live in a US where the president hates the people. Women the View is that this man is a con man who depends on fooling people because he is A LAIR that can’t sale his BS.
Dirty Dawg
August 1st, 2010
4:49 pm
Coupla facts facing us…Georgia needs Roy Barnes if we are to have any hope of getting out of the mess that ‘The Goober’ has managed to get us in, along with his buddy Geedubya and the rest of the Repugs. But Roy understands that if he’s to win he’s got to navigate a very fine line. The ‘base’ of the Repugs will never vote for a Democrat so he’s got to win a good majority of whoever’s left that, objectively, can pass as an Independent, and he’s got to make sure that all Democrats realize the reality of a Democrat winning in this state in these times is a tough chore.
I’m not all that happy with much of what Obama has done, even though I really believe that much of his ‘failings’ have been due to an intransigent, vile Republican Party that would rather see the country fail if it meant they get to regain power and the keys to the Treasury. Sure Obama has held onto too many of Bush/Cheney’s policies…and much of my disappointment has been that most of the Bush/Cheney administration isn’t in jail by now…and, finally, the DNC has all but abandoned Howard Dean’s ‘50 State Strategy’ that breathed life into an otherwise moribund Democratic Party in Georgia because the jerk Rahm Emanuel said so…but I still know what’s at stake.
So Roy, you do what you have to do cause in the end, ‘real Democrats’ along with those that actually give a s**t about this state and know that Republicans will be the death of everything this Country should stand for if we don’t keep them in the minority from now on, will be with you.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
4:56 pm
@Meredith Paulson
It probably has not crossed their minds. To some, unless the expected homage is paid to Obama, it makes them suspect. I have moved a daughter into college and realize what an important day that was for both of us. Although, I do not vote in his district, I would not be one of his supporters anyway. I do, however, fully understand his electing to put family first in this situation. The candidates have scheduled appearances long before they even knew The Great One would be here, and are obligated to make those appearances. Life does not cease merely because Obama decides to bless us with his presense.
Meredith Paulson
August 1st, 2010
5:01 pm
Ok, so we agree that this was an idiotic article….the end.
obamaisafool
August 1st, 2010
5:25 pm
Rep. blocked obama and that is what has hurt him. Talk about clueless. Which one of these areas do you fall under? Poor and love the hand out , blind just a dumb dem or 3 poor and foolish. Which one is it?
Mr. Independant
August 1st, 2010
5:33 pm
I did not vote for Mr O’Bama.However I respect the office. I don’t hate the man and will not spew hate. Let me share something I found out about the healthcare bill. Not knowing ANYTHING about this bill I asked my doctor. He was not positive regarding the healthcare bill. In his opinion this bill will cause alot of doctors to retire early. He says his operating cost are going up constantly. With salaries, rent, utilities, and the expensive equipment he must have to treat his patients. The cost of this bill will take money from medicare and decrease the fees doctors charge. Alot of doctors will refuse to see patients with this type coverage. As a result of this the few doctors that will accept patents, waiting rooms will be packed and waiting times will be long. Also the majority of us are going to be paying for healthcare for those who will NOT work. But thats liberal politics for you!
t_height
August 1st, 2010
5:35 pm
What have the President made worse in this country that wasn’t on the verge of failing before he became president? How can some of you people call Obama the worst president of all time when everything he is trying to improve, “which most things have improved slightly in just over a year”, was because of the Conservative government from the past 8 years. I think the low ratings was mistaken from our last president!
Grandma Poteet
August 1st, 2010
5:35 pm
Spud- I see where the bank foreclosed on your mobile home. You can move back in with me & PaPa. Your daddy, Billy Joe Sr., never sent you some money?
Son of a disabled vet
August 1st, 2010
5:35 pm
We are both Republicans and will be there. Glad the President is coming. I didn’t vote for him, but I admire anyone that deals with this country. Some of you need to GROW UP!
t_height
August 1st, 2010
5:45 pm
YOU MORONS WHO DON’T KNOW ENGLISH….GET THIS. tHERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS DISRESPECTED. YOU DON’T DISRESPECT SOME ONE. YOU SHOW DISRESPECT. YOU SHOW YOUR IDIOCY WHEN YOU SAY “THEY DISREXPECTED HIM” WHEN YOU SHOULD BE SAYING THEY SHOWED HIM DISRESPECT. ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE PEOPLE OF COLOR WHO SAY THAT. AND N O, NOT A RACIST. JUST TIRED OF PEOPLE TRYING TO ACT INTELLIGENT BUT CAN’T SEEM TO GRASP SIMPLE PROPER ENGLISH USAGE. IDIOTS!
Well to you Georgia Pete, just to bring you up to the new society, most americans can write stuff and 99% of the time we understand where that writer is coming from. I don’t think majority of us are on here trying to be english professors, just normal americans. When someone say you disrespected me, thats just is short for saying showing lack or respect. Welcome to new age america! You also say that you are not being racist, well what make you think that most of the time its from people of color? Are you saying that Non-colored people always speak correct english?
Dollie Mollie
August 1st, 2010
5:57 pm
JIM MARSHALL, I,m a black democrat. But, you won,t get my vote. I didn’t like the idea that you didn’t vote for the “health care bill,” and I definitely don’t like the idea that you won’t respect the president by being there at the airport upon his arrival. You ran unopposed during the mid-term, but I didn’t cast that vote for you because I remembered where your loyality was doing the health debate. And in November, I won’t cast that vote for you neither. I will never vote republican, under no circumstance. So, for U.S.Congressman from my district, I won’t vote at all. Instead, I will be remembering where my true loyality lie, by voting, “TRUE DEMOCRAT.”
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
6:07 pm
@t_height
I have read your post several times and think I finally have the gist of it. Maybe you can post again and tell us exactly “which most things have improved slightly in just over a year”. The economy, unemployment, real estate market, auto sales, home foreclosures, etc. is not better. The one thing that is better is the personal debt owed by individuals: it is significantly less. The reason that it is less is because responsible people are paying off their debts and not incurring new debt. The less responsible are not being extended credit. This is not something that Obama made better intentionally, but rather because no one trusts the economy or these idiots in D.C.
MiddleMan
August 1st, 2010
6:09 pm
Doesn’t this guy have a job in Washington?
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
6:11 pm
@Dollie Mollie
Spoken like a true plantation democrat.
Mr. Independant
August 1st, 2010
6:25 pm
Dollie Mollie, boy have they got you brainwashed! Do you know what party Abe Lincoln was? The 1st president to abolish slavery. (Republican.) Do you realize back in the 50’s when I was a kid the biggest obstacle to racial equailty was the Herman Talmadge democrats? If you’ve any common sense you will go INDEPENDANT. To think any party would go against racial equality these days is insane. It would be polical suicide. WISE UP!
Al Gore
August 1st, 2010
6:25 pm
I can’t wait to campaign in Georgia with my old buddy Roy Barnes in Georgia.
We’ll get guaranteed good coverage from the AJC and the other leftist rag, the Creative Loafing.
In fact, while in Atlanta, I’ll check the classifieds in the CL and get an old fashioned massage to loosen the joints and muscles. I seem to recall Atlanta leads the nation in massage parlors. The House of Tokyo on Piedmont comes to mind from past visits. The happy ending massage was wonderful.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
6:27 pm
Well, boys and girls, it has been almost fun. The sun is low in the west and the time grows ever closer for me to return to the sanity and peace of the piney woods. I know you shall miss me, but fear not: I shall return! Keep those cards and leters coming!
td
August 1st, 2010
6:47 pm
Why have none of you Dems taken up the wager form my post at 11:59? Easy money if I am wrong. I uess you all know I am right and the Dems are going to get wiped out in Nov.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
6:55 pm
@td
Don’t waste your time. With the Obama economy, the dems have no money to bet! They don’t want to risk any of their unemployment, welfare ot social security money.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
6:57 pm
@td
That should read “or social security money”. Sorry! Trying to type too fast!
vuduchld
August 1st, 2010
7:31 pm
It is funny to read the comments on here. You Jawja people have not learned a thing, that is why you continue to slither into the hole of irrelevency. Who cares if no one shows up for lunch with president Obama tomorrow. The earth will still revolve around the sun and that sun will sink westward at the end of the day. For idiots like dawg88, who cares what you pretend to think, you don’t matter squat to President Obama or anyone else for that matter.
You Teabegger conservatives are a joke. Most people stopped listening to your nonsense long ago. Our nation is moving forward as you become extinct like the dodo bird. Do America a favor, pull the lever and flush yourselves down the toilet.
buckhead willie
August 1st, 2010
7:53 pm
Okay rightwingers, let’s all go out and vote for Karen who couldn’t mangage to graduate from high school or Nathan who’s platform is to be the meanest son of a bitch of all to blacks, Hispanics, and gays.
We are the ninth most populous state now and, clearly, the dumbest.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
8:10 pm
@buckhead willie
@vuduchld
If both of you leave Georgia, that would raise the average IQ by at least 15 points.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
8:23 pm
I miss GWB!
George W. Bush (Dubya)
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Past Work Experience
•Ran for congress and lost. •Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. •Bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. •Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. •With father’s help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments in Previous Positions
•Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
•Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
•Set record for most executions by any governor in American history.
•Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments As President
•Attacked and took over two countries. •Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. •Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. •Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. •Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. •First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. •First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. •First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history. •After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history. •Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history. •In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. •Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. •Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. •Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history. •Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. •Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history. •Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. •Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. •Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans. •Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
•Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history. •My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history. •Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the ‘poorest’ multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her). •First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. •Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. •First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation. •Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. •Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history. •First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission. •First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board. •Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history. •Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. •Withdrew from the World Court of Law. •Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. •First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections). •All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. •My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). •Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history. •First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community. •First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) •First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government. •Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history). •With a policy of ‘disengagement’ created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. •Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. •First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. •Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. •Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. •Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden ‘dead or alive.’ •Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. •In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. •Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history. •In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War. •Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. Records and References
•At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available) •AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war. •Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. •All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father’s library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. •All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. •All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. •Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. •For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (they can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
Carl
August 1st, 2010
8:38 pm
The really sad, hypocritical thing about what you people are hating on the President of the United States about is that if he was a GOPer Republican you would be singing his praises to the world. Hypocrites. Obama has to put up with GOPer bozos in Congress who halt any and all good legislation which would HELP us get out of this recession. GOPer bozos only do it to make him look bad, but they are really making themselves look bad. They’d sell this country to Communist China (and have over the past 15 years while they were in control) to make the democrats look bad. Low lifes = GOPer bozos.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
8:50 pm
@Carl
Time for a “reality check” for you.
“They’d sell this country to Communist China (and have over the past 15 years while they were in control)”
Do you know who the President was prior to George W. Bush? Do you know which political party he was affiliated with? Do you know how long he held office? George W. Bush was the President for eight years prior to Obama taking office. By your figure of 15 years, that leaves 7 years unaccounted for. Account for them.
Carl
August 1st, 2010
8:53 pm
Billy Joe: How quickly people forget about how Bush and his corrupt cronies killed off our freedoms and dissed our safety and the economy. My mother worked at Maxwell AFB during the time Bush says he was in the National Guard stationed here in Alabama, and he is a liar – he wasn’t here to serve, he was here to campaign for a fellow GOPer republican. First President with a criminal record, eh? I know that’s right! Besides, don’t forget that while at Yale U. he mocked the victims of the Great Depression, just like he mocks the victims of this economic monstrosity that he and his fellow GOPers evilly crafted over a 15 year stretch. And you people want to put these same GOPers BACK into office???? For what? To finish destroying this country? Idiots.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
8:56 pm
To whoever posted using my name . . .
You have neither the class nor the intellect to post as me. Anyone who is above room temperature and has even a half of a brain can spot a four-flusher like you.
You may now return to watching Sesame Street . . .
A
August 1st, 2010
8:56 pm
Little billy jo, it’s time for bed. You’ve been on this site for 7 hours. It’ll hurt your eyes. And pick your brain up off the floor. I don’t want anyone to step on it and get their feet dirty.
I’ve skimmed the comments here-nothing really new. Intolerant white guys with bad grammar trying to make people think they are important. You’re just frothing idiots who use caps lock to get attention. Listen to this: America elected a black president. You’re just going to have to accept it. White and Black people elected this fine man who is doing the best he can with an economy the republicans wrecked. It’s going to take some time. But if you still want to defend Gilligan, remember, no new jobs were created by giving tax cuts to the wealthy. That money does NOT trickle down. They kept it. He wanted to privatize social security, something you morans will need at some point. He got us in two wars. Have you ever been in a room with a soldiers mother who has just had her sons body retuned without a head? Not a shipping mistake, by the way. Bush did that. If you want to call yourselves conservatives (although I do not believe your thoughts are that coherent), fine, supporters of family values (mom stays home, barefoot and pregnant), fine. But know that you are being used, that your tax money was used to make the rich far richer by the republican party you defend so vociferously. They suckered you in, Bubbas. republicans don’t care about your religion or your family values or even gay marriage. These are just flashy talking points. They care about power. Maybe everyone does. But the republicans have bloodied a lot of backs getting theirs. Mainly the backs of the people who support them.
Hamilcar
August 1st, 2010
8:58 pm
Wow! the nastiness in the comment section is mindboggling. Note that most do not talk about substance…just name calling.
1)I think our president is in over his head and has surrounded himself with people who don’t understand business. What works on paper very often doesn’t translate to the real world.
2)I wish our president was white so the whole race thing could just go away. He’s making big changes but real debate on substance goes to racial issues almost always.
3)I think my money is best spent by me not the government.
4)I wish the government spent only the money we take in (just like you do at your house)
5)Those rich people create jobs for the rest of us. Thank you George for taking a huge risk and founding a company that allows me a very good living.
Carl
August 1st, 2010
9:00 pm
Billy Jo;
Clinton “accidently” bombed one of China’s embassies – at that time they were still our enemy. In 1995 The GOPer Republicans gained the majority in Congress, and that’s when all hell broke loose. Deals brokered with China (cheap labor = richer CEOs to give to corrupt GOPers for campaigning), bank laws changed to the banks’ favor (to the mess we have now) again richer CEOs = more campaign contributions, etc. to Republicans. Who cared about the rest of us who weren’t wealthy? Not them, that’s for sure! The same thing’s about to happen if those GOPers get relected to finish out their corrupt practices.
Roy Barnes
August 1st, 2010
9:00 pm
A scheduling conflict will prevent me from meeting with President Obama during his visit.
Just remember Georgians: the Republicans want to starve puppies, take Social Security away from the elderly, and put African Americans back into slavery.
Toodles !
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
9:02 pm
@Carl
You make statements about President Bush as if they were facts but you fail to back it up with supporting data. I’m sorry, but your Mother’s statement is not exactly the evidence that would be convincing.
Instead of answering my questions, you launched another attack at both President Bush and all Republicans. That is so typical of a democrat with no answers.
Barack Hussein Obama
August 1st, 2010
9:02 pm
When in doubt, use the race card or blame the previous administration. It works every time !
Carl
August 1st, 2010
9:02 pm
Our President is half-white, and was raised by his white mother and white grandparents – which makes all the world of difference in his outlook of this nation.
SoWeGaDawg
August 1st, 2010
9:03 pm
Hey Weiner! If the red panties fit, you can’ acquit. Trooper Cabe did his job stop the trash mouth! Your man’s gone! Deal with it!
GaBlue
August 1st, 2010
9:07 pm
Carl,
Well said. The GOP followers are truly “Party First!” in their priorities. Their faithful don’t care about what’s best for this nation going forward; they care only that the people in power have (R) beside their names. How sad for all of us.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
9:09 pm
@A
You’re right. Bedtime approaches and I must depart. I’m fairly sure I know what the “A” is short for – and it isn’t “arrogant”!
Carl
August 1st, 2010
9:09 pm
Billy Jo – and you and others like yourself make the same type of statements about our current President with no facts to back them up. You tend to get your facts from Rush, Sean and friends – all tilted towards the rabid republican right. There is no middle ground for you. I think that someone who witnessed a thing would make better evidence than all the conjectures you keep throwing around. I researched Bush in 1999 and did not like at all what I found. None of you GOPers did, and you allowed him to be elected illegally by corrupt means.
GaBlue
August 1st, 2010
9:10 pm
Billy Joe Poteet,
My Daddy was a fighter pilot in the Alabama Air National Guard during the years of Bush’s alleged service there, and he never saw the Bush boy neither. He does have something that GWB never produced, though: photographs of him with his plane in the tarmac with his crew, his buddies, all in their flight suits, ON DUTY during that time. How come GWB nor any of his crew never produced a photo? Just sayin’.
Billy Joe Poteet
August 1st, 2010
9:11 pm
Enter your comments here
An American
August 1st, 2010
9:14 pm
Obama sux!
A
August 1st, 2010
9:25 pm
Actually the A is for Artemis. Look it up.
But you raise an interesting point-I believe you think intelligence is arrogance. And you’re clearly terrified of it.
Roy Barnes
August 1st, 2010
9:31 pm
Between an uneducated homophobe like Handel and the sleazy, corrupt Deal, this ‘ol country lawyer should moonwalk right back into the governor’s mansion.
J.B. STONER
August 1st, 2010
9:53 pm
Billy Joe Poteet— NEVER give up the fight to exploit these fools who continue to follow this worthless piece of s–t we have as president.
He will be a one hit wonder and will be gone with the wind.
So will Nancy Pitloosly and the rest of the crapola we have running the ship.
I’ll be back to give em hell also.
Ronald Reagan's spirit
August 1st, 2010
9:54 pm
After 200 years of corrupt, one-party rule in Georgia, it took an imbecile like Roy Barnes just 4 years in office of pandering to special interests to hand the keys over to the Republican Party.
I don’t believe Georgians are ready to revisit the past and put a clown back in office they kicked out in 2002.
Looking over the state budget, where will Barnes get the money to give our teachers raises?
Where will Barnes get the money to create all these government jobs, retooling buildings and state infrastructure?
What exactly did Barnes do to “create” hundreds of thousands of jobs during his administration?
Times are certainly tough, Georgia. Vote with your heads and your wallets, not your emotions.
Virginia
August 1st, 2010
10:25 pm
If you love ‘free’ medicine (like Obama wants you to have),you’ll love high taxes,reduction of health services,the inability to keep your favourite doctor, and the rationing of health care-especially if you’re elderly and disabled! Take it from a European-born American who knows.
Jawgee Goobers
August 1st, 2010
10:47 pm
After reading these comments, it is obvious that thinking people should be thinking about how to get out – and stay out – of GA… If there are any still there.
No need for a crystal ball to see that GA is well and truly flocked.
W
August 1st, 2010
10:53 pm
HCo, I totally agree with you. So many people actually forgot that Obama walked into a mess that he thought was ABC….P, only to find out that its A-Z and then some!! Plus, someone mentioned that Obama wants to spread AIDS through the Armed Services by allowing Gas to serve openly. Well, I disagree with the ignorant, super Conservative, supposedly Christian approach to this. I pose a question. When did Father God ever penalize your ability to choose “sin”? If that were the case, He would not allow people to get divorced, high, drunk, steal, and so on. God simply does not take away our individual right to choose based on free will. Therefore, how can we as humans take the right to choose away from our fellow brothers and sisters? I am by no means saying I agree with every choice we make, as neither does God, but denying the right to choose only showcases the insecurity, hatred, prejudice, fear, lack of soberness or sound-minded living that the God of the Bible does not like. What He does do is let us see that the choices we made are NOT right, for our good, in our best interests, or viable in the long haul, yet He heaps love on us, thereby drawing us back to the right road. If we would learn how to do that….
Mrs. Glenn Richardson
August 2nd, 2010
1:42 am
Hey, I’m better off than I was 2 years ago.
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August 2nd, 2010
1:52 pm
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JOANN
August 2nd, 2010
2:19 pm
To Dawg:
President Obam inherited all this negative BS from all the previous white presidents. He has a lot of s- – - TO CLEAN UP.
JOANN
August 2nd, 2010
2:41 pm
To GWBFORLIFE:
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!