I have never seen so many whining southerners in my life. From think-they-are-victimized Tea Partiers to lethargic Obama supporters, a relatively small percent of the population could change the game as others sleep. While driving an old pickup truck in middle Georgia this weekend, I came across a country song on the radio called “Lucky Man” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Georgia’
Georgia Politics: Go Hard or Overtime
Posted in politics, tagged democrats, Georgia, Obama, republicans, tea party on October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Rep. Sanford Bishop: Golden Egg
Posted in politics, tagged Congress, democrats, Georgia, Obama, politics, republicans, sanford bishop, troops on October 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Georgia 2nd congressional district race comes down to one simple point for me: Rep. Sanford Bishop is the goose that laid the golden egg. We, the 2nd district voters, have positioned him to serve our state and that posturing took time and effort. Tossing our employee now wouldn’t be smart. An Albany, Georgia, city councilman [...]
Libertarian Party Candidate John Monds and Get Out the Vote
Posted in politics, tagged Congress, democrats, Georgia, Isakson, marijuana, republicans, sanford bishop, tea party, voting on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Could it be true: are some people too dim to vote. I just noticed a comment on a post about John Monds, candidate for governor in Georgia from the Libertarian Party. The comment said “he short as hell” and I did not know if the writer was referring to my picture with Monds or with Rep. Sanford Bishop. [...]
The Blindside: President Obama and Rep. Sanford Bishop
Posted in politics, tagged Conservatives, democrats, Georgia, Isakson, Obama, republicans, sanford bishop, tea party on October 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I watched the movie The Blindside on cable on-demand with my mother yesterday and she enjoyed the first football film of her eighty years on earth. Watching a movie was a welcomed departure from the political campaign ads but that movie still had me thinking about election season 2010 which is more like the movie The [...]
Facebook: Georgia TruthSquad
Posted in politics, tagged democrats, Georgia, Obama on October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Recently, some old friends and I started a facebook page called the Georgia TruthSquad to share information about this election season and to answer one amazing question: what’s happening with low turnout and involvement from the Democrat side. After the energy of the 2010 election, the coalition that support President Obama didn’t remain engaged as the [...]
Carter, Reagan, Obama and President Palin
Posted in politics, tagged blue dogs, Congress, Conservatives, Georgia, GOP, Obama, republicans, tea party, vote on October 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I feel like Chicken Little but would perfect a little chicken—smoked with some John Boy and Billy barbeque sauce. It’s hard for a brother to publicly admit a love for yardbird but it is time to tell the truth. After watching a zillion campaign ads a month before the election, I wish those fellows would spend 5% [...]
Vote or We are Toast
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, blue dogs, Congress, democrats, Georgia, Michelle Obama, Obama on September 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Grown folks knew what is happening was going to happen when we elected President Obama. They said that the same people who cheered and jumped up and down would be the same people who did vote in the midterm elections. I can see it in the First Lady’s face; a face that looks like mine. She [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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, [...]
Election Night: Worst-Case Scenarios
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, austin scott, Blacks, blue dogs, Conservatives, democrats, Georgia, Jim Marshall, Michelle Obama, republicans, sanford bishop, tea party on September 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was in a discussion this weekend about the worst-case scenarios for election night in November; the situations and outcomes that should have been debated and considered now. Lately, the GOP in Georgia has been taking heat in my community because African American (AA) candidates Dr. Deborah Honeycutt and Melvin Everson couldn’t make it out [...]
10 Questions for 2110: Ballot Access and Political Leverage
Posted in politics, tagged ballot access, Georgia, Herman Cain, Isakson, Libertarian, Newt Gingrich on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Political blogging has been interesting over the last few years, but now it’s time to get out and talk with real people about matters that are often missed. Since there is no need to discuss the same old same old, we have put together 10 questions than should be considered in 2010. We hope to [...]
Obama and Cameo: Don’t Be Lonely
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, albany, Black college, Blacks, blue dogs, Cameo, Conservatives, Georgia, healthcare, Martha’s Vineyard, Obama on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama should listen to the jam band Cameo during his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Of course, he must hit the Black Dog Tavern and cop a t-shirt and cap. An old friend sent me a Black Dog hat and people in south Georgia wonder if the “Black Dog” is an African-American sub-group inside the Blue [...]
Southern Politics: Check Please
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, Conservatives, democrats, Georgia, GOP, Obama on August 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The field for the general election is in place and our community needs to check and double-check every aspect of our situation relative to political realities. The candidates’ records, actions and potential must be checked along with their staffing histories and efforts regarding whole community representation. When we watch the news reports, we always look [...]
Silly Conspiracy Theorists and 2035 President Ms. Obama
Posted in politics, tagged Blacks, Conservatives, Georgia, Michelle Obama, Obama, Spain on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cliff Claiborne on Cheers and Daymon Wayans’ character on In Living Color were the best conspiracy theorists in T.V. history. Daymon could have a field day on First Lady Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain. “See, my brother..the plan was put in place hundreds of years ago. Ergo, we were brought to the shores in the hulls [...]
Southern Black Conservatives
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, blue dogs, Georgia, GOP, Honeycutt on August 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Are things uncomfortable at home for African Americans in the South who are moderate to conservative? Booker Rising, the premiere conservative Black political blog, has a great quiz in their margin. The quiz would indicate that a surprising number of Black voters down here are actually moderate if not conservative. Then, what’s the problem? The [...]
Sacrifice: From Rangel to Chelsea’s Mother in Law
Posted in politics, tagged Clinton, Georgia, Jim Marshall, Mezvinsky, Michael Steele, Rangel, tea party on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You should take one for the team. That’s what a baseball player (like on the Bad News Bears) does when letting a pitch hit him. In the 90s, Chelsea Clinton’s new mother-in-law did just that to help pass Bill Clinton’s budget plan by one vote. As a congressional freshman, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky knew the plan was good [...]
NAACP and South Georgia
Posted in Convention, Georgia, tagged African Americans, Blacks, Georgia, NAACP, Obama, tea party, tifton on August 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The NAACP Scholarship Banquet in Tifton, Georgia, “advanced” me profoundly last night but then again, they say the hardheaded never learned. In college, we were too radical to be involved with this organization. It was all about Public Enemy’s lyrics like “Mandela..cell dweller…Thatcher, you should tell her.” In retrospect, the grassroots chapters of the NAACP [...]
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 [...]
The Obama White House Needs Some South
Posted in politics, tagged Blacks, Georgia, Herman Cain, hillary, Obama, Sherrod on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is the Obama White House too New England? To me, that’s is an interesting question but I do think the South is not “representing” in that camp as well as it should be. Columnist Maureen Dowd just broke it down and made some compelling points based on the comments of a Who’Who in Black politics. A [...]
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