In Congressman Marshall’s defense, candidates rarely put party references on political ads but two years ago his ads were all “I break with my party to work with President Bush.” While he was dissing the Dems he should have been employing congressional oversight of the administration according to Senator McCain and Governor Palin—one billion dollars a week in Iraq, bridges falling down in Minnesota, Katrina, we will be greeted as liberators.

Jim Marshall must have a zillion dollars for commercials and if he said, “I will work with my fellow Blue Dog Democrats to ensure that our party does not get to far from southern conservative beliefs when we take the White House; ” that would be a game-changer.

Marshall is running ads to cover his district but those media markets radiate over most of south Georgia, some of north Florida and parts of east Alabama. That is very, very important because a White older male Army veteran congressman supporting Obama/Biden running ads non-stop could sway the presidential election results in Georgia or better Florida.

Every Democrat in the nation should be calling Howard Dean demanding that Marshall get with the Dem program or else. Again, we are talking ads from suburban Atlanta to most of North Florida. I hope the readers of this blog get my point: Marshall slighting the Dem ticket could possibly lost us the White House.

In the mid-90s, the ag staffers in the Georgia delegations were on a Farm Bureau sponsored ag tour in Georgia and we were supposes to visit a produce shipping operation in Moultrie. The farmer was upset that INS was investigating in the area and told us that he could go by the day labor pickup location and no one was their but there was a line at the welfare office; so, he went over to the office and said he had plenty job openings.

Marshall truly bothers me, I mean he really gets deep down under my skin and bothers me. I remember in 2006 Mac Collins firing off distorted ads about immigrations, and I stood up for Jim. Jim cried foul. Rightfully so.

Now he’s doing the same thing, trying to paint Goddard as weak on immigration – he conveniently disregards that he told the Jones County Farm Bureau essentially the same thing he attacks Goddard for.

If there is one thing I can not tolerate, is these dirty politics. I don’t care which party you belong too, it’s just wrong and I hope that the Goddard campaign refrains from joining the Marshall campaign.

To take a page from those Hilliary supporters,

PUMBA figure it out

(Watch the conservative contributors on this blog make me remove this comment)

Let’s do it…..run some radio ads that invite everyone to come discuss these issues in person. The other contributors on this blog are so nice and reserved that they won’t let me call it what I want to call it: The Bitter Creek Symposium.

The Greek symposium was a key Hellenic social institution; it was a forum for people to debate, plot, boast, or simply to party with others. A convivial meeting for drinking, music, and intellectual discussion among Georgian concerned with our strategy and political capital.

With Macon being centrally located, that city is the ideal place and ‘Bitter Creek’ reference alludes to the “Branded” theme song, the place of the massacre. The metaphor with massacre is the political battle this year that will leave all Georgians bruised and blood except Jim Marshall who smoothly sidestep the action.

Branded Lyrics

All but one man died.
There at Bitter Creek.
And they say he ran away.

Branded, scorned as the one who ran.
What do you do when you’re branded, and you know you’re a man.

Wherever you go, for the rest of your life
You must prove, you’re a man.

Full song

All but one man died,
There at Bitter Creek,
And they say he ran away …

Branded!
Marked with a coward’s shame.
What do you do when you’re branded,
Will you fight for your name?

He was innocent,
Not a charge was true,
But the world will never know …

Branded!
Scorned as the one who ran.
What do you do when you’re branded,
And you know you’re a man?

And wherever you go
for the rest of your life
You must prove …
You’re a man!

“Let me make one thing perfectly clear” Jim Marshall is really smart and would be a valuable asset on the trail in Georgia for Obama/Biden. I could see him standing on a stage in middle Georgia, telling voters that the Blue Dogs will ensure that keep the agenda is moderate—tall guy, Army Ranger, Princeton grad.

Since Marshall is an Ivy League product, he could debunk that elitist junk about the Obamas—Princeton Michelle and Princeton Jim could campaign together in the heart of Georgia.

Again, Georgia could be pivotal and the creditability of Marshall could be crucial for Obama/Biden. I am simply saying that Rep. Jim Marshall is the most important southern House member in this presidential election.

Marshall has declined any debates in the district with any of his rivals. I guess he’s planning another trip to Iraq. I personally think he is running for ViceRoy of Iraq and not Congress.

Palin=lipstick
Policies= Pig

This metaphoric/code speak election year is fun and even I recently was accused of coding a post on this blog. A friend who was a chief of staff in the Georgia congressional delegate called to say that I was slick to use the video of Chuck Connors from “Branded” for coded reasons.

My metaphor was Rep. Marshall (an honorable military man) equals Chuck Connors’ character Jason McCord, an honorable military man who needs to prove he is not a coward and support Obama. The objective was to nudge Marshall into backing the Democrat ticket or else.

I search the net for details about “Branded” and found this summary:

In this Western series, Jason McCord, the only survivor of the Battle of Bitter Creek, is court-martialed and kicked out of the Army because of his alleged cowardice. Rather than demean the good name of the Army commander who was actually to blame for the massacre, McCord travels the Old West trying to restore his good name and reputation.

I like the code “the Battle of Bitter Creek” because many African Americans are bitter that Marshall is not helping Obama as we helped him for years. He could have been beneficial in adding conservative views to the Dem strategy.

So, the video from the opening of “Branded” is what the Dem Team should do to Marshall; take his Democrat hat and Democrat stripes and break his Democrat sword (power) and put him out of the Fort Democrat. We should not allow thousands of people to support him thinking he is part of the D team.

But, my old friend read more into the Chuck Connors parallel: she equates subconsciously Connors with his character Tom Moore from the T.V. mini-series Roots.

Another found summary:

The adult Kunta Kinte/Toby (John Amos) learns then what it means to be a chattel slave, but is still haunted by his Mandinkan roots and what it was to once be free. He is sold to John Reynolds’ brother William (Robert Reed), eventually marrying another slave named Bell (Madge Sinclair) and having a daughter named Kizzy (Leslie Uggams) When Kizzy is in her late teens, she is sold away to Tom Moore (Chuck Connors) in North Carolina when it was discovered that she had written a fake traveling pass for a young slave boy she was in love with (she had been taught to read and write secretly by Missy Anne (Sandy Duncan), niece to the plantation owner Reynolds). Kizzy is then raped by Moore and bears a son named Chicken George (Ben Vereen).

Whoa….Whoa….Whoa…to much code speak. They made Roots so well that African Americans were upset at the White actors in the film for years—that’s good acting. But, I am in no way trying to put Marshall and slavemaster in anyone’s mind.

He assume that Marshall endorsed Obama or Hillary at some point; then he realized that all these young people they are registered will be voting for Marshall because he has “Democrat” next to his name without knowing that he did not lift a finger to help with voter registration or to help us make history.