Your morning jolt: At Fort Stewart, President Obama targets the votes of military families
President Barack Obama and the first lady will mingle with soldiers at Fort Stewart on the Georgia coast today.
The official agenda, via Larry Peterson and the Savannah Morning News:
President Barack Obama is due to launch a national crackdown on scams used to bilk veterans out of their federal education benefits.
The White House on Thursday described an executive order Obama will sign when he and first lady Michelle Obama visit soldiers, veterans and military families.
White House aides have pointed to today’s excursion to a red state as proof that Obama isn’t just visiting electoral swing states on Air Force One. But a clearly jaded Washington Post posits that today’s trip is a case of niche marketing aimed at “a novel and potentially fruitful voter set: military families:”
The message from Obama and Biden is clear: They will campaign on the president’s foreign policy record and actions to bolster services for veterans while aggressively criticizing Romney on the same subjects — and issuing pointed examples of the Republican’s lack of proposals to assist returning veterans and their families….
The overall strategy gives Obama a chance to widen his audience on military matters at a time when war-weariness has grown — even among Republicans and in less Obama-friendly Southern states. The push also echoes a hallmark quality of the president’s 2008 campaign: its ability to identify supporters from unlikely regions and constituencies.
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Not-quite-but-nearly-former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who is still making appearances in North Carolina, lost his Secret Service protection last night, according to NBC News.
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Ninth District congressional candidate Doug Collins sent out a fund-raising email this morning that included this undated YouTube clip of his chief GOP rival, Gainesville radio talk show host Martha Zoller, explaining her position on abortion:
Says Zoller:
“I think I’m a different kind of pro-life person, in that I don’t think abortion should be illegal, but I think the way we change people’s minds on life issues are not with legislation.”
Collins, a lawmaker from Gainesville, has begun calling himself a “consistent conservative.” From the email:
”You’ll never have to worry about where I stand on the issue of abortion, and I vow to stand behind the same convictions I’ve had throughout my lifetime. You’ll never have to wonder if my campaign rhetoric matches with the beliefs of my past.”
The response from Zoller’s campaign strategist, Joel McElhannon:
This race is between a conservative firebrand in Martha Zoller and a wimp.
Martha Zoller was endorsed by Georgia Right to Life before Doug Collins. Why? Doug’s legislative endorsement was suspended by GRTL because he was killing their pro life legislation in committee over the last several sessions at the request of leadership.
Eleven second manufactured clips from years ago will not change the fact that when it’s time to take a stand, Doug Collins consistently waves the yellow flag of cowardice.
After seeing the above remarks, Collins strategist Chip Lake messaged to say that the video clip is from the 2011 CPAC gathering in Washington.
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Better Georgia, a progressive group headed up by Bryan Long, has been engaged in a campaign to draw attention to the link between Republican state lawmakers and the American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful private, non-profit group that generates conservative legislation for use in state capitols across the nation.
Six years ago, state Rep. Earl Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs, headed up ALEC. From Jon Gillooly and the Marietta Daily Journal:
Ehrhart responded: “Mr. Long doesn’t like free speech, doesn’t like advocacy for anything other than what he wants. The majority of the citizens in this county and this state are going to agree with the principles of ALEC. Again, back to the founding principles of this country. I’ll stand them up against his tent principles all day long. I’m not afraid of some Occupy pansy sitting in a tent without a bath, I’m sorry.”
Replied Long this morning:
“Representative Ehrhart sees public scrutiny like a bad rash. If he has nothing to hide, he’ll tell us every ALEC backed bill so that voters can decide whether they agree or not. The secrecy of this group has lasted too long.
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In a major break with the past, this year’s farm bill is moving through the halls of Washington without the support of Southern farmers. From Politico.com:
Cotton won concessions on its own revenue protection program, including a decision to lift the acreage cap on land enrolled. But the leadership resisted any return to a countercyclical program with target prices, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) bluntly warned that peanuts and rice will take a “huge hit” and are left “without any safety net whatsoever.”
Indeed, corn and soybeans appear the big winners in what would be an historic shift away from direct cash payments and price supports in favor of new forms of subsidized crop insurance.
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia today takes a look at the claim that, because of traffic tie-ups, “The average Atlanta resident … spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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oldtimer
April 27th, 2012
1:14 pm
Republicans and democrates have been using think-tanks forever to hopk with legislation. ALEC does have some good ideas…
Obama is now if full campaign mode.
yuzeyurbrane
April 27th, 2012
1:29 pm
I stand corrected Centrist re your military service, which, by the way, I greatly respect, as I do my friends and relatives who have served as you. I was relying on my memory of an old post of yours which was that you had served 10 or more years in the military and I thought you said you got retirement benefits. But I was wrong on that point and don’t mind apologizing. And I think you deserve the VA safety net and other perks even if you don’t avail yourself of them because you have earned them as part of a nation’s gratitude. Other vets do however and there should be no shame for them. My uncle, who served under Curtis Lemay, would get his pres. drugs at the VA because they were allowed to negotiate prices with drug companies, but chose to get his general medical care through a private insurance plan. Same for my brother-in-law, except he just finds quality of medical care is much higher outside VA.
Buck
April 27th, 2012
1:30 pm
barack hussein obama, most embarassing and worst elected official ever…
Mic
April 27th, 2012
1:30 pm
Obama is here to campaign pure and simple. On your dime. You can announce a new program or policy from D.C.
Shine
April 27th, 2012
1:37 pm
Obama should win Ga easily. He’s a better pro gun candidate that gun grabber Mutt Romney. I will vote for Obama in November and it will be the first democrat for president I have voted for since Bill Clinton.
Boot a kook….vote democrat!!
Member of a fading nation
April 27th, 2012
1:49 pm
For those of you that keep blaming Bush, remember that most of the crap that happened, happened when it was a democratically held congress and senate. DOH!! Thanks Nancy
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Member of a fading nation
April 27th, 2012
1:50 pm
Shine, you should change your name to Dim because that’s what you are. Please don’t vote at all.
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Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
2:08 pm
I’m trying to figure out when EXACTLY the INCUMBENT President running for re-election is supposed to campaign? Let’s enter into…”The Wingnut Zone” (doo doo do dooo )
Never!!! He is supposed to just sit around n the Oval Office and allow the campaign of his opponent to progress uncontested and not promote his own agenda and vision. Just sit around and wait for the final election returns to roll in.
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Chris
April 27th, 2012
2:31 pm
Sister Sarah -
He can campaign on his own dime and own time. He flew Air Force One down here to campaign, masking his objective as a policy introduction. That’s against the law. He only used the policy introduction to get out of having to reimburse the cost of the travel of his actual campaigning. He’s as crooked and shady as anyone in Washington. Don’t be so easily fooled.
Please go away Obama
April 27th, 2012
2:39 pm
Does this guy give like 14 speeches a day? Geez…please STOP with all the speeches!!! When can we vote this nothing out of office!!!!
Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
2:42 pm
Ok @Chris, time to put it out there. Show us who and how shallow you really are. Define FOR ALL OF US in concrete terms:
1) On his own time (weekends, spring break, vacation time)?
2) Mode of travel (i.e. fly Southwest, Greyhound, maybe hop in the Chrysler 300)?
3) On his “own dime”…( please show us the expense reports that CONFIRM these expenses are not being reimbursed by his own campaign or the DNC?
Last thing, have you EVER made these SAME requests of any previous INCUMBENT President of the U.S.? Maybe your memory is short and only goes back to say, 2008? I bet if we lift that mullet of yours we might find a hand hole with a mouth trigger back there. I’ll be waiting.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
2:42 pm
I love how Obama waits until electio rampup to start ramming legislation for every demographic. Why hasn’t he done anything up until now?
He should move to Venezuela and take over once Chavez keels over, leaving us the opportunity to get back to fighting for truth, justice, and the AMERICAN WAY….which is get off your rear and work, never ask for a handout, and mind your own damn business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
3:02 pm
If he is the least bit effective in his first four years the President really has no need to campaign….his work speaks for itself. If he has sucked incredibly he also has no need to campaign.
Larry
April 27th, 2012
3:27 pm
Please show the Georgia exit door to quite possibly the single most unaccomplished president in the last 100 years. I have voted both parties into presidential office, but clearly this is the biggest buffoon, the biggest “smoke & mirors,” and the least equipped person to lead the greatest country in history. On what basis was this man hired; on what basis should he be re-hired?
And as for Osama, please! The great American military found this man…he just gave the same order any president would have…shoot to kill!
MyPatootie
April 27th, 2012
3:45 pm
This is obviously the first stop on his comedy tour. Where’s Biden, his totally inept sidekick? They need to head to Hollywood immediately after the November election. They will after all be job hunting.
zeke
April 27th, 2012
3:47 pm
we may not have made much progress, but at least he didn’t dig biggest hole since hoover, like w did…or have you totally forgotten w and his band of merry men
Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
3:53 pm
@Bryan you 3:02p is the most idiotic post I have read today, and that’s tough to do with all the doozies on here. Where to begin…
“If he is the least bit effective in his first four years the President really has no need to campaign”
33 of our 44 Presidents have served two terms, each having CAMPAIGNED for their re-election. Suffice it to say then that 33 of them were “ineffective”….which is why they won re-election. See, makes perfect sense deductively speaking now doesn’t it??
And yes, I AM a graduate of the Jon Stewart “Make a MF Look Stupid At Will” Academy. You’re welcome.
TOOL!
April 27th, 2012
4:00 pm
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Wake me up when NoBama is out of the White House in January!
Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
4:02 pm
I have come to the conclusion that these Obama HATERS are bunch of BABIES that need a diaper change. They remind me so much of the little snotty-nosed toddler who sits in the middle of the floor with their two little teeth and throws a fit- beating and kicking into the floor. Reason and rationality has no place whatsoever in their lives, neither does honesty.
It kills them inside that this man (Obama) is a master chess player politician who continually rises above and barrels through every obstacle thrown in front of him. What makes it worse is that it wears on their psyche because of the visual image. Phenotypically, he’s NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO DO IT!! This man’s resilience, charisma and intelligence flies in the face of everything they have been brainwashed to believe. Fuuuunnneeeeee!
"JOEL WARD"
April 27th, 2012
4:20 pm
I know it’s hard to give a brotha credit. Just ask ME.
Hang in there Barack!
(I know it hurts y’all , but it’s the reality in this “greatest nation in history” we live in). KEEPHOPEALIVE!! lmao
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
4:29 pm
Sarah sounds like a typical Cynthia Mckinney supporter….She is coming back…you can revel in “I’m gon gets minez”
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
4:37 pm
Sarah, It is clear that many in your family must be benefiting from all the social programs that Obama has created for us. I guess that is fine.
However, I graduated high school without help because of my color. I then entered the military because my family didn’t have the funds to pay for my college. Afterwards I paid my way through college, and then got a student loan to pay for my masters degree. I also paid that loan off.
So you see, I need no one to hand me anything. I don’t need anyone to tell me how stupid I must be and that the government needs to help me. I need no one to pay for my healthcare or be a proponent for my cause, because I have healthcare through my employer. I am employed because of hard work, and I think it is great that there are those out there that make much more than I do. It gives me something to strive for. I feel that I am smart enough to attain that level, and see no reason why those who attain those levels should pay more than I pay.
If some of these inner city idiots that live on the tit of the government would get off their rears and work for a living they may have similiar experiences in life.
Hell, maybe you too!
Orange12
April 27th, 2012
4:44 pm
Hopefully, this is his farewell tour. 16 Trillion National Debt and going North.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
4:46 pm
Joel,
So you subscribe to the fact that you aren’t intelligent enough to get to the upper class? You need Obama to help you ring in those overachievers so that you can feel better about yourself? You aren’t intelligent enough to get a job with benefits?
Congratulations Bro
gm
April 27th, 2012
4:55 pm
Larry
Amazing how the right nut wings forgive Bush: 4500 Americans soldiers dead in Iraq, first attack on American soil in the history of this country 3500 Americans dead in Ny.
President Bush created the worst economy in American history, banks fails, wall street 14 days straight days under, auto failed, housing fail, bin ladin making videos every 7 days, Airport security codes alerts.
Oh, lets skip both Bush, and go back 30 years and relive the Reagan years when poverty was at all time high, oh, lets not forget he raised taxes 14 times, but these Anti Americans cry when Obama tries to get any thing done, to help America.
Bryun
April 27th, 2012
5:02 pm
I am special. I like to talk about the military a LOT because I am proud of my service. Except liberal veterans. They better SHUT UP! Like Max Cleland? He was a COMMIE. Only people that think like ME are allowed to talk about the military. Otherwise, they are just accepting government handouts and communists.
God bless America, Apple Pie and the Flag. Because *I* don’t need handouts. I earned my high school diploma and, by working as a paper boy, went to a private school instead of a public school. Because public anything is OF THE DEVIL. The military? I was in a division sponsored by corporations and I *EARNED* everything I have by sucking the teat of Mother Business.
I EARNED IT! (cries off in the corner) I earned it. (Rocks back and forth sucking thumb while criticizing liberal veterans…)
gm
April 27th, 2012
5:02 pm
Bryan
some of these inner city idiots that live on the tit of the government would get off their rears and
What about the trailer park people that live along 75 south who collect government assistance?
I guess va, ssi, femma, unemployment is not govn assistant? God bless you have insurance and doing fine, typical high minded idiot who think everyone who gets help want help forever.
FOOL?
April 27th, 2012
5:03 pm
I’m waking up to a BIG surprise in January!
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
5:04 pm
Gm, the last time someone tried so hard to help America my property values went down 50%. Do you recall that your buddy Bill helped decide that lower income families should have the same opportunity to own a home that well qualified families enjoyed? That went over well, right? How about when pretty boy Bill let Bin Ladin get away….but I’m sure the towers would still have fallen, right?
I currently pay 20k in taxes, and I’m fine with that. I just want some of the idiots that spend years on welfare and unemployement to get off their rears and get a job. I want them to live within their means, because that is what I do every day.
I don’t need gold teeth, 26″ rims, or a tattoo on my neck to be real. I need a job!!!
Please Will I Go Away
April 27th, 2012
5:04 pm
Geez, I post 14 pointless posts a day? Why won’t I quit whining…when will I go away? Why am I here? I’m going to go away now and cry in the corner next to Byrun.
gm
April 27th, 2012
5:06 pm
Bryun
What did Malcome X say that white people call a black doctor, miltary man, black lawyer, a nnnnnnnnnnnnnn you guessed it, go down in south georgia and run for office and tell them you served in the miltary and see how much you think these people love you.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
5:06 pm
Byrun….you have attention deficit disorder, right Please?
gm
April 27th, 2012
5:12 pm
I am sure it was Bill Clinton security team that day on 911, denial is a sickness.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
5:13 pm
GM….no…I have a couple of idiots working for me directly.
For one I have to answer the phone at least 5 times a day because the idiot won’t pay his bills. His wife has been on unemployment for the last three years, and during that time has put 90k miles on their car. Of course he loves Obama….he wants more handouts.
The other is so simple minded that he only votes for Obama because he is black. A short time ago there were a few people that got run over while walking on 285. This individual’s remedy was to put sidewalks on all the highways.
I’m not racist. I love Herman Cain. His ideas of earning what you have are incredible. But only Big Boy Bill and JFK seem to be allowed to have Indiscretions.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
5:17 pm
You see GM, I would be absolutely embarrassed and raving mad if some idiot in Washington decided that my race was too stupid to make it own their own in life. I would make it my life’s work to prove them wrong, instead of rallying around him. Whitey hasn’t been keeping the man down for quite some time now. Whitey has been and continues to be propping the man up.
For example, just this week there were new regulations introduced as to what HR may look at in background checks….simply because those poor minorities keep commiting crimes and afterwards can’t seem to get a job.
Iraq Veteran
April 27th, 2012
5:41 pm
The response from Zoller’s campaign strategist, Joel McElhannon:
This race is between a conservative firebrand in Martha Zoller and a wimp.
Martha Zoller was endorsed by Georgia Right to Life before Doug Collins. Why? Doug’s legislative endorsement was suspended by GRTL because he was killing their pro life legislation in committee over the last several sessions at the request of leadership.
Eleven second manufactured clips from years ago will not change the fact that when it’s time to take a stand, Doug Collins consistently waves the yellow flag of cowardice.
Response:
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬I read, with great interest, the comments of Mr. Joel McElhannon, identified as Martha Zoller’s campaign strategist, during which Mr. McElhannon suggested that “Doug Collins consistently waves the yellow flag of cowardice.” I am concerned that the Zoller campaign, obviously struggling with a candidate whose only claim to fame is that of being a talk show host would suggest that a Major in the United States Air Force Reserve, who deployed and served honorable in Iraq is a somehow a coward. How the heck would you know what a coward is? When was the last time you, Mr. McElhannon or your candidate deployed to Iraq? Heck have you or Martha Zoller ever deployed anywhere much less Iraq.
I served in the military for over 32 years. Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, I have deployed 3 times. I was an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer and commanded teams in Iraq. My teams and I have cleared hundreds of IEDs and thousands of pounds enemy explosives in the field. I have received two Bronze Star medals; one of those was awarded with the “V” device for valor. I am currently retired from the U.S. Air Force secondary to injuries I received in Iraq. I know courageous men and Doug Collins is one of them.
My men were/are battle hardened, we give no quarter to people who we deemed less than honorable. Doug Collins is welcome with us anytime, anywhere. We consider him our chaplain, our friend and we turn to him with our problems because we respect and admire Doug Collins. We know he gives us his best every single day. He has held the hand of wounded Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines. He has stood with them during the worst times of their lives, providing comfort when no hope remained. Nothing is harder than watching the suffering of a wounded soldier who knew he was dying; Doug Collins did not run away from that pain, that agony. He ran to it because he cared for those men and women. That, Mr. Joel McElhannon takes courage that you or Ms Zoller will never know.
To call Doug Collins a coward and a wimp is an insult to those of us who have fought for this country and demeaning to those who’s last few moments before they made the ultimate sacrifice were spent with Doug Collins.
Rest assured my family will support Doug Collins because the Zoller campaign has proven themselves dishonorable with these comments.
Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
5:57 pm
Bryan says on the one hand:
“and then got a student loan to pay for my masters degree”
THEN..
“So you see, I need no one to hand me anything”
*chuckle*
Just give it to the school ON MY BEHALF
smdh
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
6:10 pm
Sarah…it wasn’t a Stafford Loan if that is what you are referring to. I had a private loan, chuckle.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
6:17 pm
I bet Sarah loves Herman Cain as much as I do. Well, no…..Herman believes that everyone should earn a living, not look to government to provide it.
Sarah….when you have a cat that has lived on a farm all it’s life, what does it eat? How does it care for itself? It hunts and provides for itself.
What happens when a cat that has lived inside and been fed all it’s life gets let out and has to live on it’s own? It can’t fend for itself, because it has become accustomed to someone providing for it.
That’s the same thing that has happened to all those welfare recipients that I’m sure you call your peers. You have had the government give for so long that you have no idea how to do anything else.
It’s time to learn Sarah. 24’s and gold teeth don’t make the man. What a man can do with his two hands besides drive a Cadillac is what makes the man.
Sara
April 27th, 2012
6:31 pm
An Occupy Atlanta response: http://occupyatlanta.org/2012/04/27/georgia-lawmaker-appears-angry-and-confused/ Please note that I did more research on ALEC and what they are up to than the MDJ reporter did. It wasn’t hard.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
6:41 pm
Why can’t we 99% work hard and strive for more? Why do we just want a handout? What have we done to earn this handout? What have the 1% done to to be forced to take care of the 99%? Oh, they worked hard for what they have and never asked anyone for anything. I can see now why they should pay more!!!
Why does no one in the 1% have a tattoo on their neck, or have gang affiliations, or use all their money to play the lottery? Why do they not have a mouth full of gold teeth and tattoos in all their extremities?
I just can’t figure it out.
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
6:47 pm
I have an idea. Why don’t all you occupiers move to Williston, ND? If you occupy there you will find more jobs than people. That way you can get a job and contribute to this fine country of ours while you protest. Hell, you might even find out that you really had no reason to protest to begin with.
Just food for thought!
Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
6:54 pm
Bryan, I don’t care if your student loans were SUBSIDIZED or UNSUBSIDIZED, they were still given to you under the FINANCIAL AID umbrella. I don’t care if you walked into your neighborhood community bank, you STILL went with your hat in your hand, LICKING SOMEONE ELSE’S BOOT FOR SOME MONEY! You didn’t pay for that “Masters” out of your own pocket. You Bryan are a pion, just like everyone else. I guess you think YOU have the “formula” huh?? I won’t even waste my time touting my military credentials and educational/financial accomplishments to you, because I am not what you and people like you are.
You are a slave to that worthless @$$ dollar, that’s why you and others like you covet it so, Truth be told you don’t have anything more than anyone else. You are drowning in an upside down home JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, going to work TO MAKE SOMEBODY ELSE RICH…JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. If you or yours are befallen by a terrible or catastrophic illness it will BREAK your @$$…JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
So really, you need to stop SMELLIN’ yourself so tough chump!
ALL THAT RHETORIC you and your type like to push. You are all diplomats, economists, military generals and everything else *rolls eyes*. One thing I never get confused. In this SYSTEM, you have one of three options (REALITIES):
A. Become a lobbyist and control policy
B. Run for political office and get into the game (and it IS all a game)
C. Cast your vote as a “lowly” citizen and STFU
Bryan
April 27th, 2012
7:08 pm
Sista….there is a thing called credit. You earn that based on employment, availability to pay, history of payment….that sort of thing. I borrowed on a signature loan where I “paid for my tuition” plus “paid the bank for the loan of the money”. Now if I had been an occupier, or on welfare then maybe I would be licking someone else’s boot. But you see, I had already accomplished enough in my life and had sufficient standing in the financial community that I didn’t need that milk from the government. You see, there are things in life you can do without the help or guidance of the government.
I know its a novel idea, and one you aren’t familiar with, but it can be done.
And yes, I am a nobody just like everyone else. The difference is I don’t have my hand out asking for anything. I can honestly say I have never needed government assistance because I haven’t had kids I couldn’t pay for, and I haven’t given up in life. I’ve worked as hard as i needed to in order to get where I wanted to be in life. I only make $50 an hour, and I dream of making more. But I don’t need anyone else to make that happen for me.
Sister Sarah
April 27th, 2012
7:13 pm
Only $50?? LMAO With that massive ego wank you’re doing?
Get your weight up junior! ..and like I said, stop SMELLIN’ yourself.
*Chucks dueces*