Barack Obama a hero, Nathan Deal a villain in mailer
President Barack Obama may have just made his first appearance in Georgia’s race for governor – as a hero rather than a villain.
Republicans – chiefly through the Republican Governors Association – have spent millions to tie Democrat Roy Barnes to Obama, casting the president as the symbol of an out-of-control federal government.
Democrats have been less enthusiastic about using the president’s name. But Republicans sent over a mailer this afternoon that’s clearly aimed at boosting turnout among African American voters.
The mailer takes a very tough line toward Republican Nathan Deal.
“We fought against the Voting Rights Act. You may remember that,” it quotes Deal as saying at a tea party forum.
On the opposite side – the one with Obama — the mailer says the following:
“Why would Deal fight against your right to vote? Because he doesn’t think you should have that right. Earning the right to vote didn’t come easy. Many sacrificed and some even gave their lives for that right. Say NO to Nathan Deal by reminding him you DO have the right to vote.”
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SpaceyG
October 14th, 2010
3:44 pm
When just a Tweet about this matter won’t do, eh? A whole blog post about a mailer that makes a white dude in Georgia look like a white dude in Georgia seems like over-reach, but hey, wha’da I know.
Linda
October 14th, 2010
3:50 pm
Just one more reason why Shady Deal is a bad choice for Georgia.
gm
October 14th, 2010
3:56 pm
And you wonder why we dispise Deal and their racist tea baggers.
Retired Soldier
October 14th, 2010
3:56 pm
I knew the Dems would play the race card before we got to Nov 2. Only three sure things in life: death, taxes and the Dems playing the race card. Have they no shame?
hl
October 14th, 2010
4:00 pm
Retired Soldier, If the quote by Deal was not taken out of context, it appears that he opened the door as far as race is concern.
jt
October 14th, 2010
4:09 pm
The flyer claims——-
“Earning the right to vote didn’t come easy.”
I guess this IS aimed at intelligent-disadvantanged Democrats.
While the title of the Voting Rights Act might imply that it established an explicit right to vote for U.S. citizens to vote in presidential elections, there is no such federal right.
Obama voters should do what is right and set this next election out….Dummies.
Vote John Monds.
Rush Cheney
October 14th, 2010
4:09 pm
If a revelation came out the day before the election that Nathan Deal fathered 10 children out-of-wedlock with 8 mistresses, deals meth on weekends, and is a secret agent for Hezbollah, the people in this state would still vote for him. This is a RED state. Policies and character does not matter as long as you have an (R) by your name. Mark my words … this state will suffer as a result of electing Mr. Deal.
td
October 14th, 2010
4:11 pm
Looks like a few libs have surfaced from their day long morning. You all have come to the realization that your actions have consequences. The election of the most leftest President the country has ever had combined with one of the most leftest congresses agenda have woken up the masses and this middle/right country is mad as hell. The results will be that this state will totally be run by Republicans after the election.
Blame yourselves first and last. Maybe next time you will not elect the far left to power.
Retired Soldier
October 14th, 2010
4:15 pm
Hi-
Nothing is ever taken out of context is it. Does the great congressman from Florida Alan Grayson sound familar. Even it it isn’t out of context, one should never justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior,
TelllinItLikeItIs
October 14th, 2010
4:15 pm
Typical Democrats; take it out of context and reframe the debate in the most negative light. Democrat: from the root words, “Demo”- as in demogogue; and “crat” – as in Bureaucrat.
Retired Soldier
October 14th, 2010
4:17 pm
Rush-
Ans were you that opposed to one party rule when the Dems held exclusive power for over 100 plus years? Thought not.
Ralph
October 14th, 2010
4:19 pm
So you claim this flyer was sent to you by the Republicans? Yea, right.
Just posting this trash shows your gross bias.
The AJC: “Smearing metro Atlanta like the smog”.
Kevin G. Hughley
October 14th, 2010
4:23 pm
Nathan Deal is the wrong candidate at this time for governor of Georgia. He has proven to be unethical and would use the office to sell to the highest bidder and he has shown that our government resources will be bankrupt under his leadership.
AZ
October 14th, 2010
4:23 pm
Deal opened the race door the moment he uttered the phrase “ghetto grandmothers”. Besides, if people would just quit saying and doing racist and bigoted things, there wouldn’t be a race card to play.
3 Arrows
October 14th, 2010
4:24 pm
Why would any person vote for Deal? He is not Barnes
Why would anyone vote for Barnes? He is not Deal
Why would anyone vote fro John Monds? He is none of the above.
grizzybear
October 14th, 2010
4:27 pm
every election cycle the democraps do the same things, scare seniors about social security, race bait minorities, and try to give free bus rides to people they need at the polls to vote!
Karen Handel Supporter
October 14th, 2010
4:28 pm
That why I am voting for Roy Barnes because we dont need no Deal.
Dirty Dawg
October 14th, 2010
4:33 pm
Hey Jim when are you gonna ‘call out’ the RepugGuv’sGroup, or whoever, for running the same couple of peckerwoods sitting around complaining about Obama and Barnes? I mean even the West Virginia folks called BS on this thing to the extent that the group pulled the spot and fired the vendor. Seems that they had had a ‘casting call’ for ‘hicks’. Point is, that’s the way the RepGuvGroup thinks of their ‘base’ down this way, but it doesn’t seem to bother the Deal bunch – shoot, they’re probably saying, ‘what’s the problem?…sounds just like Nathan.’
The Centrist
October 14th, 2010
4:37 pm
Please add…If Deal said that “We fought against the Voting Rights Act,” at a tea party forum, how is it that the Democrats are playing the race card for quoting him? This reminds me of the 1990’s when conservatives would sling mud and when a liberal just by chance throw it back at them, the conservatives would holler “Low Blow.”
jeff Yoder
October 14th, 2010
4:38 pm
I thought the sheepish Louisiana electorate were the dumbest and placed party over ethics and morals when re-electing David Vitter but now idiocy is at it;s finest here in Georgia where GOPers are voting for Bad Deal Nathan whom seems every week to be exposed to another unethical scandal! Wow, where does the pinnacle of hypocrisy end with the party that claims to take the moral high ground on ethics and personal responsibility?
TruthBe
October 14th, 2010
4:41 pm
ALL progressive liberal democrats are RACIST and LIARS. They are the biggest threat to America today. VOTE REPUBLICIAN.
Albert
October 14th, 2010
4:44 pm
This mailer hurts Roy Barnes in the end.
Stupid move
TruthBe
October 14th, 2010
4:44 pm
If you vote for Barnes you vote for Obama and his socialist out of control big government. Because all democrats are the same. Like I said before democrats are both RACIST and LIARS.
The Centrist
October 14th, 2010
4:49 pm
There are reasons…every election cycle the democraps do the same things, scare seniors about social security, race bait minorities, and try to give free bus rides to people they need at the polls to vote. It is because every election cycle, conservatives campaign to privatize social security, tout “states rights” hot-button issues, send out robo-calls with the wrong election date, and many of those scared seniors need transportation to the polls. So, which party started with the “Willie Horton” type morphing ads during this governor’s race?
TruthBe
October 14th, 2010
4:56 pm
The democrats use racism to fuel their cause and get elected. Just look at the other article in today’s ajc about the so-called “Black Vote”. Black Americans as a whole are the most racist people in our Nation. That’s why blacks vote on skin color. Obama’s election is a great example of this and so is Mayor Reed’s election. Remember “Don’t let Whitey win”. That’s a quote from the Clark University Profressors.
Linda Schrenko #56443-019
October 14th, 2010
4:56 pm
I just ousted @VoteDeal as mayor of Curruptville on @foursquare! http://www.twitter.com/fitsnews/statuses22806650789
The Goobernator
October 14th, 2010
5:00 pm
As we get closer to Halloween, everyone looks for villain and hero models for costumes.
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:01 pm
Deal is as slippery as a bag of snakes…lol…………..The truth hurts doesn’t it?
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:03 pm
Isn’t GA ranked dead last as far as education goes? Watch the state elect Deal and drive that point home!
TRUTH
October 14th, 2010
5:05 pm
Nathan Deal the real steal
Retired Soldier
October 14th, 2010
5:05 pm
Ramguy-
Where was Ga in education under the 100 plus years of Dem control? You got it, last.
Montel
October 14th, 2010
5:10 pm
Georgia doesn’t need any more white racist republicans trying to keep African-Americans down by taking away the right to vote! All African-Americans must vote for Barnes.
MD
October 14th, 2010
5:10 pm
Galloway why don’t you look up how many new people have registered to vote in nov.in all counties that will tell you once and for all who wins.Nathan Deal will be the next gov. of Georgia.
Rafe Hollister
October 14th, 2010
5:13 pm
The next flyer will be a redo of the “black churches will burn if Republicans are elected” or maybe they will rerun the redneck pickup truck ad about the draging death in Texas, that was used against GWB.
It seems to me that if the Dems scared me once with a fear based add that turned out not to be true, they wouldn’t succeed the second time. Democrat voters must be dumb as hell to fall for the same ads every election cycle. Sure saves money for the Dems; just pull one from archives and fool the voters again.
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:15 pm
Soldier thanks for pointing out how ignorant we have been. Actually I think we squeaked by finishing 48th and 49th a few times.I’m glad my son was and continues to be educated in New Mexico. He called the other day and was just amazed that Deal leads in the polls here….lol.
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:19 pm
New campaign slogan for Deal: Help the homeless…start with me”. Did you see Deal running from that WSB reporter? You need some cheese with that whine Governor?
ROBOCOP
October 14th, 2010
5:25 pm
The reason Georgia has ranked at or near the bottom of the list of states under both Democrats and Republicans in Georgia government is because Georgia has been populated by politicians and citizens who devalue educational achievement and would rather raise multiple generations of illiterate kids than establish a world-class educational system.
td
October 14th, 2010
5:31 pm
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:03 pm
Isn’t GA ranked dead last as far as education goes? Watch the state elect Deal and drive that point home!
I know if we take the scores of the children of the democratic voters out, Georgia would be at the top. Just look at the scores of the Republican strongholds of East Cobb, North Fulton, North Gwinn, Cherokee and Forsyth counties?
Mik
October 14th, 2010
5:32 pm
Something tells me this mailer was not sent to swing voters in South GA.
td
October 14th, 2010
5:35 pm
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:15 pm
Soldier thanks for pointing out how ignorant we have been. Actually I think we squeaked by finishing 48th and 49th a few times.I’m glad my son was and continues to be educated in New Mexico. He called the other day and was just amazed that Deal leads in the polls here….lol.
Why are you not out in New Mexico with your son? Being a good father and teaching him how to be self reliant and how to be a man? Oh, I forgot liberals believe that the Gov. should raise our children and not the parents.
Onion Peeler
October 14th, 2010
5:37 pm
The truth is always more than 3 layers deep. Unfortunately, most readers don’t get past the outer layer. Before forming your opinions, how about a little research, consideration and analysis of what you find, and then formation of an opinion. Readers on the left, the middle and right are guilty of forming opinions consistent with their view of the world based on nothing more than a feeling. Finding the truth is a mighty effort and unfortunately a mighty effort isn’t always enough. Probably explains why most folks don’t like resolving incongruities and just base their opinions on emotion.
Bubba
October 14th, 2010
5:49 pm
If he can’t run a junk yard profitably, why should be trust him to run state government?
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:50 pm
Hey td, why don’t you add.Gilmer, Towns, White, Habersham, and Rabun Counties? After all they are surefire Republican strongholds too…..Your argument doesn’t seem to hold water.
TP4U
October 14th, 2010
5:51 pm
No one will be energized to vote either way from that campaign piece. It doesn’t motivate. African Americans care about the same things whites do–JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION! TRANSPORTATION! TRANSPORTATION! TRANSPORTATION! FORECLOSURES! We don’t care about what DEAL THINKS!!!!! Whoever thought of it is a campaign moron not a strategist. At the end of the day, the Democratic base will stay home. It’s too late. Democrats keep on using the playbook from 2002 hoping this time it will work. There is no Democratic leadership and every candidate out there is competing for the same dollar. So, we are faced with a few more days to get it right. Georgia Democrats must reach out first to their base, than women, seniors and independents. If Georgia Democrats are too scared to do what is necessary to win–they should lose!
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:54 pm
td I came out for my job WHEN MY SON STARTED COLLEGE!!!!!! Oh yeah, you neocons don’t believe in going to “them liberal colleges”. NEXT!!!!!
Alabama Communist
October 14th, 2010
6:02 pm
The Democrat establishment would have been better off sending out a Post Card showing a mob of Klan members hanging a rope over a tree limp with this comment ” This one is for Nathan and he is coming for you now!”
aladawg
October 14th, 2010
6:03 pm
Hey, all you idiots above every race on this earth is a raciests. Blacks are just as or more raciests that whites. If you don’t beleive it just let a white person take a stroll down in the black section of any town or city and see what happens.
Last Man Standing
October 14th, 2010
6:04 pm
At first blush, one would think that the Barnes camp has made a blunder of major proportion. Perhaps they have learned that Deal intends to tie Barnes tightly to Obama and merely mean to make the best of a bad situation. Regardless, this will deal Varnes fate. The “Fat Lady” isn’t warming up in the wings anymore: she has burst into the first verse of a sad old song – for Barnes.
This move will solidify the Barnes/Obama connection and cost Barnes votes among the independents. While it may increase the number of blacl votes Barnes will get, the additional votes gained will not offset the votes that will go to Deal after this move.
A vote for Roy Barnes is an affirmation of Obama, Pelosi and Reed.
td
October 14th, 2010
6:04 pm
Ramguy
October 14th, 2010
5:54 pm
Well Ramguy I guess I will not upset you too much by telling you that Georgia is a conservative state. We like being a conservative state and will be a conservative state for a long time to come. We really do not care if you like it or not matter of fact we would like for you to not like it enough to want to leave and go back from where you came. Oh yea, you said you came out here for work. Don’t say that to loud or you will lose your liberal card and get kicked out of the Democratic party.
Last Man Standing
October 14th, 2010
6:08 pm
Damn typos! “seal Barnes fate”