Albany, Georgia City Commissioner Jon Howard is my classmate from college and one of the most dedicated public servants you will ever meet. He put together a candidates forum this morning and I found myself talking with Bishop, Everson, Monds and Dukes. That list of names isn’t a law firm but speakers at the forum [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
Georgia Political Talks/Obama Style
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged albany, Congress, democrats, Georgia, John Monds, moderates, republicans, sanford bishop on September 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Voting, Flame throwing and Football
Posted in politics, tagged Bill Clinton, Congress, democrats, football, Georgia, Obama, tea party, voting on September 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
People who skip voting this year are nuts who should be shunned. In rural Georgia, we spend hours every Friday night at high school football games but early voting takes less time than a marching band’s halftime show. What’s up with this one or two tubas stuff? We had an army of tubas back in the [...]
Michael Steele In Georgia: Shoot the Gift
Posted in politics, tagged Blacks, blue dogs, Congress, Conservatives, Georgia, Michael Steele, republicans on September 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I caught RNC Chairman Michael Steele at two speaking events on Saturday and I couldn’t help but think what should have been. Steele nodded in agreement when I said that his Blueprint document from his campaign for chair was the forgotten outline for their success. In other words, they could be winning on facts, policy, [...]
George C. Fraser: Economic Empowerment over Political Power
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, Congress, Conservatives, politics, youth on September 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In his book “Success Runs In Our Race,” George Fraser convinced me that networking was vital to professional and social success. On Tavis Smiley’s Covenant With Black America, Fraser asserted that African-Americans were the only Americans who sought political power before economic power upon arriving in this country or what would become this country. [...]
President Obama Speaks To Veterans And Democrats Skip
Posted in politics, tagged Congress, Georgia, Obama, veterans on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama is coming to Georgia for a list of events that include speaking to the National Convention of the Disabled American Veterans. There is buzz down here about which politicians will be seen with the president as their elections approach. My friends and I are watching them closely because those congressional candidates who benefited [...]
Teachers and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
Posted in politics, tagged Christie, Congress, education, mccain, Obama, spending, teachers on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We have all seen the Geico commercial where Charlie Daniels takes the violin from a strolling player in a fancy restaurant, rips some righteous fiddle licks and gives it back to the guy before saying, “That’s how you do it, son.” I enjoy everyone on the violin from Daniels to the brother in Dave Matthews Band [...]
Obamacrats: Get Smart and Scrappy
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, blue dogs, Congress, democrats, moderates, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Sherrod, tea party, youth on July 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I don’t care what anyone says; President Obama is exactly the president “candidate Obama” said he would be. The problem is people don’t know how to listen. He isn’t big on party politics because he didn’t spend that much time in the national arena before ascending to the top. That’s why he is constantly looking [...]
NAACP and Tea Party: With Malice Toward None
Posted in African Americans, Georgia, politics, tagged African Americans, Congress, Conservatives, NAACP, Obama, tea party on July 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This drama about the Tea Party movement and the NAACP has me thinking. Are racists at Tea Parties? Yes. Are racists at NAACP rallies? Of course. If you get a big group of people together, heaven only knows who is in the crowd. Anyone who says Blacks can’t be racists is delusional. Is that racism [...]
Murphy, Honeycutt, and Scott On Trail In Georgia
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged blue dogs, Congress, Conservatives, democrats, healthcare, Obama, republicans on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The 13th District congressional race in Georgia is interesting because Dr. Deborah Honeycutt is again facing Democrat Rep. David Scott. Former Honeycutt campaign manager Michael Murphy is also in the race but as a Democrat. When Murphy decided to move from the GOP to the Democrats, I was surprised and disappointed that a comfortable place did not [...]
The Political Slate
Posted in politics, tagged Congress, democrats, Obama, republicans on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While blogging has been interesting, the time has come to put political concepts in play or as my daddy use to say “take it out of the talking phase.” Americans have been attentive to politics and policy continuously for the last few years and that is a good thing. During this important election year, the [...]
Obama or Bill Clinton On The Georgia Campaign Trail
Posted in African Americans, Convention, politics, tagged Bill Clinton, Black college, Congress, democrats, Fisk, Jim Marshall, Macon, Michelle Obama, Obama on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the Fall, Georgia should have a campaign visit from one or more of the Democrat Big Three: President Obama, President Bill Clinton or First Lady Michelle Obama. Where is my ticket or can I get the hook-up. The logical facility for this historic event would be the Macon Coliseum because Georgia is the biggest [...]
Georgia Politics: I Spy With My Political Eye
Posted in politics, tagged Congress, Georgia, Obama on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The kids in my family play a car game called “I Spy With My Little Eye.” While driving around Georgia this weekend I did the same with campaign signage. On Highway 300, a candidate has decided that he can be trusted while I have always found the incumbent to be trustworthy. It’s funny that candidates [...]
Speaker of the House: “Who You With”
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged Congress, Georgia, Obama on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post has a database of congressional votes and I decided to look at votes for Speaker of the House. There have been times when moderates and/or centrists couldn’t bring themselves to vote for certain candidates for Speaker. I remember my first congressional boss saying that he liked Democrat Gene Taylor of Mississippi because [...]
Political Divorce: The centrist version of the Tea Party
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged Congress, tea party on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The term alienation of affection appears in divorce documents but it could apply in politics. People grow apart or the person you thought you married doesn’t actually exist. You wedded the image or façade created by that person. Since we should avoid the victim role in America, it is your fault for not being a [...]
Cuttlefish and Politics
Posted in politics, tagged blue dogs, Congress, tea party on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know about the cuttlefish? I woke up at 4 this morning and an ABC News report introduced me to the cuttlefish, an amazing sea creature that changes itself to it’s surroundings in a classic defense technique. This fish has no shell and is strangely colorblind. You can make all the political comparisons to Blue Dogs, [...]
Political Crossroads
Posted in African Americans, Conservative, politics, tagged Blacks, Congress, GOP on May 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This blog was started with one central theme: our community can’t put all of its egg in one basket. This morning the Sade classic “When Am I Going To Make A Living” came to mind because I am also “hungry but I won’t give in.” We are at a crossroad in American politics and Black [...]
Southern Politics: The Audacity of Scope
Posted in Conservative, Georgia, politics, tagged blue dogs, Congress, democrats, GOP, Obama, republicans on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The dictionary defines scope as the range of one’s perceptions, thoughts or actions. A second definition is “the area covered by a given activity or subject.” President Obama outlined his vision for a better America in his book the Audacity of Hope. However, the hard part is implementing ideas into policy in a partisan nation [...]
Mike Murphy: Georgia 13th Congressional Candidate
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged Congress, Georgia, politics on April 14, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Mike Murphy is a centrist running for congress in Georgia’s 13th District. Watching the Democratic primary will be interesting because Rep. David Scott has been strong in the past. Options for the voters are always healthy for the process. http://votemikemurphy.com/
New Kotex Commercials and Political Ads
Posted in politics, tagged ads, Commercials, Congress, jobs, Obama on April 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The new Kotex Commercials are genius because they poke fun at unrealistic marketing. At some point in our political past, candidates begin hiring Madison Avenue ad-men to flex and bend the mindset of the electorate and they funded this media with money from lobbyists. We should prep for another election year of ad blitzes with [...]
Congress and Relativity
Posted in politics, tagged blue dogs, Congress, Georgia on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For some odd reason, I find myself eager to apply high school physics (Einstein’s Theory of Relativity) to congressional politics and policy. In physics, the principle of relativity is the requirement that the equations have the same form in all admissible frames of reference. Frame of reference may refer to a coordinate system or set [...]
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