Comments on: Word: ‘Dark cloud over Georgia’

By: wesley what what

wesley what what — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:55:18 +0000

funny u would say that. guess whose comments made me think about blowhard republicans???

By: Dale C

Dale C — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:54:26 +0000

That’s the pot calling the kettle black .. hahaha

By: wesley what what

wesley what what — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:50:47 +0000

republicans in ga legislature = vindictive morons with no answers but plenty of talk.

By: Dale C

Dale C — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:24:54 +0000

Anymore than the ones who elect the Democrats? Seriously.

I don’t know Scott and don’t have a dog in the fight, but I can’t find anything racist in his comments about this. He even supported the new GA flag. That is not a safe position with racists. Rjatl says he is trying to “get right” with the bigots.
Go read the comments on blogs supporting the resoultion. Plenty of anti-cracker comments out there too.

Everybody identifies with members of their own race, some to a greater extent than others, but most have an affinity for their own race.

I don’t think this was racism, I think it was politics and posturing. On both sides.

I have heard the same bigotry in my parents generation.

By: edgewood adam

edgewood adam — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:57:22 +0000

But that is not the question at hand. It just seems a little childish for the guy to stand in the way of it. There is a slight racist tone to it because this is the real world. When speaking with my parents conservative friends and all of my uncles there is always a racist undertone to their haterd of Obama. Dale you seem to be the exception to the rule of conservatives but that does not change how most suburban conservatives think. Read blog comments on the ajc or peach pundit and tell me the people who elect these republicans are not racist.

By: Dale C

Dale C — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:57:01 +0000

The double-edged sword is that, by giving up these trivialities, they have more time to “work” on “real” legislation.

A part of me wants to keep them busy renaming streets and pointless resolutions so they can’t screw us up even more htan they have already.

Every part of our economic crisis can be traced ditrectly to politicians fiddling around with issues and systems of which they have ZERO understanding.

By: Anonalawyer

Anonalawyer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:55:51 +0000

President Bush’s response to Katrina was controversial, and yet the Democrats in the Ga Legislature managed to put aside whatever anger they might have had over his ineffective response to allow that resolution to pass without objection. Maybe it was because it also cited the other relief workers. But still, the Democrats in the legislature could’ve objected to Bush being included in the resolution as written. They could’ve demanded that the language be changed. They didn’t. They let it pass unanimously because it’s a ceremonial resolution with no legal effect, and there was no sufficiently good reason to make a stink about it just to prove a point.

The point, as S. DeKalb Voter noted, is that until now these sorts of resolutions were routinely passed without objection and there is a reason this one about Obama was suddenly treated differently. Why was it suddenly worth making a stink about this one?

You can think that the ceremonial resolution is stupid practice, but that still doesn’t answer the question of why those Republican lawmakers decided this resolution, now, was suddenly the time to draw a line in the sand.

By: S. Dekalb Voter

S. Dekalb Voter — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:53:25 +0000

I agree with you completely. They should save time and money and ban all of these. I wonder how much they spend on this stuff. The savings would probably be enough to save a furloughed teacher :-)

By: Dale C

Dale C — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:23:02 +0000

I guess a better question may be, “Why do they waste their time with this pointless crap and why don’t we call them on it?”.

By: S. Dekalb Voter

S. Dekalb Voter — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:20:24 +0000

The point is the legislature passes resolutions all the time for any number of people and causes. The resolutions are normally bundled into one vote and they vote without debate. This one shouldn’t have been any different. One has to wonder why. The reasons offered thus far ring hollow.