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Obama woos NASCAR voters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Obama campaign has talked a lot about “expanding the playing field,” seeking votes in places that Democrats had previously written off, such as here in Georgia. Well, the folks over at SI.com report that the effort has taken an interesting turn.
“SI.com has learned that for the first time in history, a major presidential candidate may sponsor a race car in NASCAR’s premier series. According to sources, Barack Obama’s campaign is in talks to become the primary sponsor of BAM Racing’s No. 49 Sprint Cup car for the Pocono race on August 3. Details of the agreement are expected to be worked out over the coming days.”
I follow NASCAR — one of the highlights of my sporting life was renting an RV a few years ago with some friends and spending the weekend in the infield at Talladega. Boy Howdy. But hearing Darrell Waltrip talking about “the No. 49 Barack Obama Toyota” … well, this world sure is a funny place.
UPDATE: Well, not so funny after all. Looks like the deal’s off….
“The Obama campaign will not be sponsoring a car in the Sprint Cup series, though we will continue to look for ways to reach out to voters,” said Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman.




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Comments
By Cooday
July 12, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this
My Most Favorite Driver is Jacques Villeneuve who just missed the Triple Crown of Auto Racing. David Letterman also loves Auto Racing and did sponsored a driver! So Auto Racing doesn’t just belong to just Republicans.
Jacques is also a great singer and I have him with John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen.on my web site. Jacques is also one of the influences for my own music.
Anther fan afilmby combined a great video with highlights of Jacque’s racing career and with his first release “Accepterais Tu”
Jacques Villeneuve - “Accepterais Tu” translation is “Soulmates” - Youtube Music Video.
Accepterais Tu
Even if Obama doesn’t sponsor a driver at least I got to promote Jacques Villeneuve a Warrior on the Race Track! Hes also a Great Artist! - True Art Warriors also love beauty unlike the Republican Attack Machine!
Barack Obama ‘08
By No way. Yahwey.
July 12, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this
The world is a funny place, my fine friend, the world is. Now, the oval office and stock car racing should be fertile ground for humor, satire, bits, riffs, or even serious, but readable, articles.
I wont hog the stage. You have given the topic, lets just see if Wootie and the blowtrolls can come up with anything except hate, racism, or myspace chatroom chatter.
They missed with Perdue. I felt sorry for them and did a little throw-away about the Governor cursing god for too much rain lately.
The point here is that a blog needs sound minds to read the topic suggested, and then respond appropriately to the topic. Wootie and the Blowtrolls never, never, ever, ever, hardly ever do that.
Look, the truth is that Wootie himself has had to dumb down his prose because his blowtrolls never quite got the points Wooten makes in his own pieces. Wootie writes for the lunatic fringe, die-hard bush-base vestige of concealed-tampon-carrying uberpudwits who blog over there and squat over here. ‘muff said.
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
130,000 low-class/no-class white folks, and the Obama ‘08 Dodge…
Stands full of Butt Whiner and Woo-ten Klanner types waving their rebel rags.
A loooong day for poor Kenny Schrader, unless they wreck him early.
By Donovan
July 12, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
Oh, yeah! Maybe your candidate for CHANGE can put on a helmut like that past presidential idiot you all supported who rode around in a tank for the cameras? That really helped, didn’t it?
By Charles
July 12, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
It will never work. The pit crew will all have to be union workers (they’ll demand a break every 4th pit stop), the crew chief will demand a “re-race” everytime they lose (like the 2000 Election) and the driver chosen will need as much experience in racing as Obama has politically (little or none).
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Ahhhhhhhhhh - another day on the Bookman blog - who left the lid off the septic tank AGAIN???
By No way. Yahwey.
July 12, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Definition:
Defining Wootie and the Blowtrolls:
Conservatism’s base has been reduced to over-eager, concealed-tampon-carrying, weapons grade cheek-fissures with keyboards.
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
GHT. Newsflash. You’re here. So, what is it? Are you part of the tank’s contents or attracted to tank’s contents or a by-product of the tank’s contents or maybe you’re here to pump out the tank or add to the tank? The tank wants to know. The tank needs to know. Help the tank. Become one with the tank.
By getalife
July 12, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
He decided not to do Nascar.
Snow loses round two to cancer.
By GOPs got to go
July 12, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Now if he would sponsor a Cycling team I might pay attention. Just think of the nice jerseys to be had!
And fans are generally fit, instead of having large beer guts. And we also have the legs to pull off the wearing of Daisey Dukes.
However, it is just a dream. The Bubbas would run us over like bowling pins.
By No way. Yahwey.
July 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
America 08: Insert Obama here.
Obama 08: America is here.
By RW-(the original)
July 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Obambi doesn’t need to sponsor a car in a Cup race. He can just paint that bus he throws everybody and everything under and run a match race against The Truck.
He even threw Bernie Mac under the bus last night, but snatched him back out at the last second.
“We can’t afford to be divided by race. We can’t afford to be divided by region or by class and we can’t afford to be divided by gender, which by the way, that means, Bernie, you’ve got to clean up your act next time,” Obama said. “This is a family affair. By the way, I’m just messing with you, man.”
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RIP Tony
By D'OH!
July 12, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
More vile hate speak from RW-(the oravaginal). Have you no sense of decency? AT long last? You would sit there at your PC, not 5 pegamixels away from me, and hate-click away?
RW-(the menstral cramp), is doing the best she can…….
By RW-(the original)
July 12, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Since the Obambi/NASCAR thing was over and done with hours before the host decided to post this rumor here’s a suggestion for a new column.
Is starting a run on a bank a good thing or a bad thing? I’ll go with bad and leave good to JB.
Two weeks ago, Schumer publicly released a letter he had written to regulatory agencies, demanding action to prevent IndyMac’s collapse. Instead of shoring up the bank, the letter induced depositors to make a run on the bank. Within days, over $1.3 billion in deposits disappeared, forcing the FDIC to close the bank and pay off the insured deposits.
Good job Chuckie! /sarc
By James Winslo
July 12, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
NASCAR was already in a coma and died the day Toyota infected it. This “Nobama” thing would just be the autopsy. However, if they do sponsor a car I recommend they paint it bright green with a black roof, a big white star and crescent on the hood with the number 666 on the doors in red.
P.S. Before you wackos get upset, look up the word hyperbole.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
July 12, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
A tad off topic but in my opinion some of these people who ran the mortgage banks should do some serious time. Not 12-18 months or something like that. Serious time llke 15-20 years. Of course they won’t and heck they get to keep the commissions anyhow.
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
Yawn. James claims hyperbole as his defense against calling Obama the devil. NASCAR got boring as soon as prohibition ended. There was just no thrill left in the chase. If they want to bring back some excitement, then the first thing they need to do is quit going round in circles (Yes, I know it’s not REALLY a circle). Dirt track. That’s the way I used to do it growing up. Yep. Homemade dirt tracks. After the corn was harvested, we used to just get out in the fields and cut all kinds of crop circles. The good ole days. The days when a Talmadge was a Talmadge — ham, that is. The days when white lightnin’ wasn’t no bright flash in the sky. Nope. I’m talkin’ ‘bout the good stuff. The stuff that burned without a flame — all the way down. It took your breath away because it used up all the oxygen in your lungs as soon as you tried to breath. Yep. Those were the good ole days of NASCAR.
By Bud Wiser
July 12, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
I can’t wait to hear how Jeremiah Wright gives his interpretation of “Gentlemen, start your engines!” It’ll probably be something like “Go Ahead You White Devils and crank up dem REDNECK CRACKA CARS and git de hell rolling!!”
Maybe Obama can also pull Roseanne Barr out of retirement to sing the national anthem.
By James Winslo
July 12, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
The “serious” truth is that NASCAR changed for the worst when the drivers had to quit “racing”. Used to be you could go as fast as you dared in the straight-a-ways and pass anyone you wanted ….. you just had to brake for the turns. If you didn’t ……… well, that’s “racin”. What we have NOW is nothing more than the old IROC races……same exact cars……just different colors.
Oh, by the way …….. McCain’s car should be red, white and blue with a big flag on the roof, the Presidential seal on the hood and the number “44” for forty-fourth President of the United States !!!
By Hillbilly Deluxe
July 12, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Prohibition ended in 1933. NASCAR was formed in 1948. All the old timers I knew who made corn liquor said if it didn’t go down like water it wasn’t worth a damn. Course that was in the days before they discovered the people in the shot houses in Atlanta and Chattanooga would drink anything. Then they started using sugar. More liquor for your ingredients and less time to run off. That ruined the quality.
By Susie A
July 12, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
61 policy reversals from the Republican nominee.
“Jukebox John Keeps Changing His Tune” by Steve Benen came out yesterday in the Huffington report!
It’s obvious that the McCain campaign and the RNC have decided to go after Barack Obama as a flip-flopper. What’s equally obvious, though, that Republicans couldn’t have chosen a worse narrative.
McCain & Co. seemed to stumble on this line of attack almost by accident. They’d experimented with a variety of memes in recent months, none of which had any real salience. The right settled on “flip-flopper,” in large part because it’s the closest available, already-written Republican narrative, and in part because McCain staffers haven’t been able to think of anything else.
After working on this project for a few months, I’m pleased to report that we now have a whopping 61 policy reversals from the Republican nominee.
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
Hillbilly, I sure would love to taste the real thing, the sugarless moonshine that went down like water.
I’m not sure how I fell about restrictor plate racing. I do know that Dale Sr. would be just as dead without restrictor plates.
I say let em race!
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
Yawn, Again. You people wouldn’t know a restrictor plate from a harmonic balancer. If I asked you for a crescent wrench, you’d hand me a half-eaten moon pie.
I know you all have likely seen a housefly and maybe even a horsefly but how many of you have seen a car fly. That would be a half-twist followed by a three-quarter somersault with a flaming tank finale — not Marty and the McFlyin De Loreans (available in each Happy Meal[tm]).
Ladies and gentlemen, he’s OK. Just a few singed hairs is all. Course, his car’s a different story. That’s what we like to call totaled. Yessiree, folks. State Farm is not gonna be lookin’ forward to that call. Maybe President Obama can put in a good word for him.
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Hillbilly,
‘Course the “real stuff” felt like it went down like water. It numbed everything it touched instantly. But you can’t hold your breath forever.
Just where do you think them NASCAR folks learned about racin’ anyway. Of course NASCAR come after there was no longer a need to outrun the sheriff or one of them dang revenuers. As for sugar, no self respectin’ shiner would mess up a batch of corn liquor with no bag of Dixie Crystals. That stuff was invented to make it easy for the Missus to make a big pitcher of sweet iced Lipton after church.
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Now everytime Obama makes a speech, he has to thank his pit crew, and sport his pepsi cap.
In Every Nascar Race event, there’s a Viagra race car, of course, but what people dont know is that there’s a Watermelon Race car too. You know that reminds me that I once used watermelon instead of Viagra to prepare myself for a BJ, but it was just no fun, the hooker kept spitting the seeds out.
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Let me tell the story. I can tell it all, about a mountain boy who ran illegal alchohol. His daddy made the whiskey, his son he drove the load, and when his engine roared they called the highway thunder road.
And there was thunder, thunder, over thunder road, thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load, and there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil’s thirst.
The law they swore to get him but the devil got him first.
Note: I went to a catholic elementary school run by zealous nuns. They unwittingly let me sing this song in front of the entire fifth grade. The nuns got even, trust me. In fact, the doctors decided it would be safer just to leave the ruler where the nuns had put it.
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
VIEWER ALERT!! People, please tune into Fox news right now. NOW!
trust me, you’ll thank me. Just tune in. There’s a face you have to see.
please. act now. tune into fox and just watch.
By Chris
July 12, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this
With Obama going to NASCAR now, he is doing this for political campaigning, but it is also an effort to avoid anything on FOX which is ridiculous because SPEED TV is part of News Corp which owns FOX News, the one that DNC Chairman Dr. Howard Dean wanted to shut down during Dean’s 2004 campaign tonight.
If Obama is such a coward for not wanting to appear on The O’Reilly Factor, then what makes you think he will appear on WindTunnel with Dave Despain (Sundays 9 PM EST on SPEED)? No doubt the “Tunnel heads” (myself included) will be “Fired Up!” about this tomorrow night.
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
Never mind. they didn’t show it. Oh man. you missed it. it was a close up of Fattina in that interview about a young girl who was banned from football team in Ohio somewhere, but her mother had this mug that, well, you had to see it, and they showed her in the teaser close up and I’ve got to say it was the weirdest, funniest dang face I’ve ever seen, oh brother.
but then they dont show it. This is why Fox will end up on the trash heap of history with conservatism.
Hey newsflash: How’s the blowtrolls today? Where’s Wootie?
By Morningstar
July 12, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
I’m not well versed in today’s topic NASCAR, nor am I acquainted with corn liquor or moonshine, but someone here did mention MORTGAGE BANKS and what should be done. Those lending institutions do need Federal regulations!!! Hummmmm…….
According to Fidelity.com (((Stocks will likely start the coming week full of growing uncertainity after news late Friday that Retail Bank IndyMac was shut down by regulators)))
According to AARP, ((Percentage of pre-retirees ages 50+ who lost money in stocks and postponed plans to retire increased from 21% in 2002 to 28% in 2008. Those who returned to work, or began looking for work increased from 10% in 2002 to 28% in 2008)).
So, all those 40+ who are or should be thinking about the future, might wish to think again (and again, and again), about that little genuis plan of placing SS funds in the stock market.
The Wall Street crowd would love that. You betcha they would! I imagine all those who are receiving little or no retirement from the company to whom they have been loyal for 30+ years, would tend to be less pleased after it all “sinks in.”
And what about that little 401K plan you’ve chunked up over the years. Assuming of course you had anything left after paying the bills. Just a little food for thought!
By RW-(the original)
July 12, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
Dale Jr.,
Is it true that on the Viagra car the tires inflate themselves?
/shamelessly stolen from DW…
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
Nascar/Obama 08: It’s about changing tires, and hoping for a caution.
By Dale Jr.
July 12, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Obama/Nascar 08: It’s about changing right side tires and hoping for a caution.
By Morningstar
July 12, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Correction to 1:53PM (((Percentage of pre retirees ages 50+ who lost money in stocks and returned to work or began looking for work increased from 10% in 2002 to 17% (not 28) in 2008)))
Sorry about that. Morningstar arises late some days.
One other little comment about that 30+ years with your company. You can probably forget that. Before you’re old enough to retire, you’ll be downsized, rightsized, reorganized, surplused etc. etc.
Hopefully you’ll be one of the few really resourceful, lucky, better educated who simply don’t need your SS. And who cares about all those in rural areas, or those in the lower paying jobs in large cities and suburbs, right? Who cares. “Let them eat cake!”
As I said, NASCAR ain’t my cuppa tea, so I’m outta here to help the economy by spending a load of money.
By Abomi Nation
July 12, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
As a hard core conservative I truly think Obama missed the boat on this one. He should reconsider his decision to not sponsor a race car.
NASCAR is the only sport that hasn’t been turned into something I would not want my children watching. NASCAR exudes family values. Its the only sport left that hasn’t been turned into a big gay porn fest.
I have written before about the disgusting football uniforms that practically leave the players rear ends exposed in those tight, tight pants of theirs . Disgusting.
Tennis is another sport that has gotten into the act. Did anyone see Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon last week? Good God they should cover that boy up. Watching Nadal as the sweat was gleaming off of his hard, dark, muscular body was one thing. When those shorts of his got all wet with sweat it was like watching the male version of a wet T-shirt contest. Disgusting. I have hdtv, it was worse than the Janet Jackson Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. Disgusting. NBC should get fined for that pornography.
NASCAR is not like that at all. The drivers are virtually hidden. They wear helmets. Their pants are very very heavy, you can’t see a thing. You don’t even have to worry about Jeff Gordon sneaking a peak at Kasey Kahne in the showers because NASCAR drivers have their own trailers to shower in. Unlike in baseball where all the players shower in the same disgusting area. Thats just not right.
You blew it Obama. You had an opportunity to expand your base. Changing into a tight fitting pair of tennis shorts is not the kind of change America is looking for. Disgusting.
By Jay = Moron
July 12, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
Jay as liberal of a person as you are you’d proably buy a hotdog in the likeness of Obama’s private part if they made it.
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
Good question, Newsflash, and I’m glad you asked it.
Like NASCAR, the AJC blogs attract the sickest of the southern sick, who, based on virtually every statistical measure of mental illness, dementia, ignorance, and cultural depravity, are far sicker than any other region, even the Mountain West.
Look at the history of the region - bloodshed, rape, murder, incest, STDs, b*******, alcoholism, ignorance, w-horemongering - and we haven’t even left the trailerpark!
My posts are me reaching out to the ultimate victims of the myth - the idea - the Lost Cause of “victimology” - the American southron.
Their stunted intellectual, moral, and emotional development is a terrible tragedy in and of itself, but since 1980, and the election of Ronnie Reagan, and especially since 2000, with the selection of Dumbya, these misanthrope kkknuckledraggers have had a profound negative impact on the US and the world.
My posting style is to mirror back to them their hatred, their superstition, their ignorance, their fear, their inbred stupidity. (See my recent interactions with CommunistAJC as an example). I use stereotypes and slanders much like they do, except I have the terrible truth about their history and behavior on my side. I turn their magical thinking about their gutter culture around on them - I challenge their notion of cultural and racial superiority with the facts, just the facts.
Typically, they don’t like it. Many of them know, intuitively, that God does hate trash, and I hope that my posts just help make that a conscious knowing.
It’s not hard work. It’s fun when it isn’t sad. Sort of like an endless game of “whack a troll”.
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
No self-respecting NASCAR fans a)sit in the bleachers, 2) eat hot dogs during the race, c) brings or wears sunscreen (hence, the red neck in the outline of the t-shirt), drinks beer from a stinkin’ little plastic cup, or counts past d. After all, you get more than five things in a list and it gets too hard to remember. After the second case of PBR, that is. It just ain’t right. Ban bottles if the broken glass is causin’ problems for those city folk that can’t walk barefoot but let us have our PBR in a can — with one of those fancy little foamy thingys around it to keep it cool, yeh, that’s right, to keep it cool.
By ron
July 12, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
Campaign dollars for a race car?Everyone should be happy they donated.
I liked the racing years back,but lately they are boring.I haven’t watched a race for about three years.
By JAY BOOKMAN
July 12, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
I keep telling Trash that he’s wrong, but people like Moron make it tough to get the better of that argument.
By Bud Wiser
July 12, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
From Godhatestrash….”Like NASCAR, the AJC blogs attract the sickest of the southern sick, who, based on virtually every statistical measure of mental illness, dementia, ignorance, and cultural depravity, are far sicker than any other region, even the Mountain West.”
That sure goes a long way explaining why you are what you are.
Thanks for the definitive cultural heritage statement, but I think your family tree is growing sideways instead of up.
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
I gotta back up buttgeyser here on the shrink rap. (Hey, I minored in psych), and for the most part, I think Sluttmeister is right. GHT is an imbecile, a clear 23 point clinical criteria match for mongoloid munchhauser.
and I think it’s a damn shame.
McCain 08: Ask him a question, He stares into space, but dont worry, he’ll answer the question, like JFK said, “…B4 the decade is out….”
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this
Jay, I have the facts and 400 years of southern history on my side.
I actually hate to say it, but I do.
And methinks Butt Whiner doth protest too much…
(Can you imagine the depravity of the family that whelped him?)
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
Scenes we like to see: On PBS’s Antique Roadshow, where they appraise antiques: “Do you have any idea what it’s worth?” (I have no idea.) “In todays market, in this condition, at a well advertised auction, this item would fetch between, say, 7 and 9 thousand dollars.”
Is that all? Aw, why did I even bother? Are you lowballing me so you can rip me off after the cameras are turned off? I hate this show. It’s stupid, and you’re a pirate and a jerk. Martha! get the car.
By Bud Wiser
July 12, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this
My family is just fine GHT…..not like yours, where your wife was already related to you before (if) you got married, and the children bear a remarkable resemblance to her cousin Bubba, who drives a garbage truck in East Point.
The only thing you have going for you is the fact that it was legal to marry a relative in Alabama up until a few years ago, so at least you are not in prison.
Good for you. Bad for the rest of the universe.
By Alex
July 12, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
I like how easy it is to post on AJC blog! This is Democracy that lets all our voices be heard. Reading all the posts here I don’t know which side is winning of us posting but I support Barrack Obama!!!
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Excuse me, Mr. GHT. I done forgots whut it was I asked you. Would you mind repeatin’ the question. Thank you in advance for your hospitality and I’ll be lookin’ forward to hearin’ from you agin. By the way, did you say that you was my second cousin twice removed or the wife of my brother’s mother, I keep gettin’ you and your daddy mixed up.
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
Whelped! Great teat reference! Wow!
suddenly this blog goes into high gear. pass the popcorn! nice teats!
By Dusty
July 12, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Ho hum..here’s reading the latest trash opines from all the run off transplants from Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelpia and New Jersey. They couldn’t stand you where you were so you come here to dump on the greatest part of the USA…the South.
It is like you brand yourself at every word with a yellow sign”contaminated”. You don’t have to make it so plain. Just open your mouth and out flow the insults, expletives, ignorance, complaints and brain washing.
As to Obama and the talk of NasCar, are you suprised? He also wants to make a speech at the Brandenberg Gate and a nomination speech in a sports stadium. Nest he will be riding the elephants in the National Zoo to show that a donkey can get along with the elephants. What a showboat! What an actor!! Will the REAL Obama please step forward?? Then make a nice EXIT.
By getalife
July 12, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
Finally, some great news from the Times:
“The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September, according to administration and military officials, raising the prospect of a far more ambitious plan than expected only months ago.”
Malarki is handing out your money on the streets of Baghadad.
By Thanking Person
July 12, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
By Bud Wiser July 12, 2008 3:49 PM My family is just fine GHT…..not like yours, where your wife was already related to you before (if) you got married
Adam and Eve were first man and first woman. So why wouldn’t we all be related if we go back far enough in the family tree?
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
Just had to take another break from mowing. The Missus let’s me have a little sip — just a little sip of Dixie Crystal sweetened Lipton on Ice — once for every tank full of gas in the mower. I’m on the second tank and it’s gettin’ mighty hot — me, not the mower. Anyway, I thought I would come in here and pick on ole Dale, Jr. a little bit while I cool down. Now what’s all this talk about Catholics in the South. When I was growin’ up, we didn’t have no missionaries around. We had Bible thumper — “In Your Face, Praise Hallelulah” — Southern Baptists. You was either Baptist or you was a heathen. And, if you don’t know what “Bible thumper” means, then you ain’t never fell asleep while sittin’ next to your momma in Church. That Bible makes a real nice thumpin’ sound when she brings it down hard on your head. Of course, it had other practical meanings as well — if you was awake for it. Now me, I was a half-breed — a Baptist heathen — ‘cause I went to Church part time. Every other Sunday, I had to run shine so the sinners among us would have somethin’ to drink come Sunday evening. What can I say. Folks has to make a livin’ any way they can sometimes. After all, them greens and fatback and bacon-fat biscuits took somethin’ stronger than Lipton to wash it down. Now, them was some good fixins. Heart-stoppin’ greasy, but goooood! You just can’t cook food like that on a grill in the infield at NASCAR. Nope.
By @@
July 12, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
Maybe oBAMa’s qualified to take the car out for a spin.
He’s a real champ at that.
By James Winslo
July 12, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
To GodHatesTrash:
If I were a bettin man I would bet some “Southron Boy” whipped you good in the 7th grade. You need to get over that.
In any case, I can’t figure out why you’all are a leavin the “rust bowl” cities and a comin down here.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once. It said :
“Yankees 1 - South 0 ….. Halftime” !
By @@
July 12, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
Getalife:
President Bush has been talking about withdrawing additional troops for quite some time now. He’s been predicting it would begin mid-year 2008.
Have you been paying attention?
Does he need to refine his message?
By getalife
July 12, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
Not halftime.
Game over and you got your as-s whooped. They burned down your town.
Time to get over it.
By Morningstar
July 12, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
By @@ July 12, 2008 5:02 PM Maybe oBAMa’s qualified to take the car out for a spin. He’s a real champ at that.
WMD’s come to mind. I’m about to spin out of orbit thinking of this little trip! Perhaps the Plame issue….”To The Moon Alice”…..The economy is booming “To the Moon Alice” ….
Why don’t you invest in the stock market? Demand that SS funding be placed in the stock market. Your SS fund would be booming now. I’m about to laugh out of control….
The only responses that will be received are those ……just shut up!!!! If they haven’t figured it out now, they never will.
By Midori
July 12, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this
Maybe oBAMa’s qualified to take the car out for a spin.
He’s a real champ at that.
here’s what george bush is a real champ at
pitiful. just pitiful.
By getalife
July 12, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this
No @@,
When he comes on I change the channel. The only time he told the truth was we are addicted to oil with cheney smirking in the background at the SOTU.
Did you read about Malarki handing out your money?
Iraqi welfare. Afghan welfare when they blow up civilians. Need to borrow more from China and stick the kids with the bills.
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
News, your post reminds of an old joke/truism:
The definition of mass confusion?
Father’s Day in Dixie.
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately, many southerners raise their children like Michael Vick raises dogs…
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
Anyone else think it’s weird how @@ doesn’t trust the reader, and thinks she has to bold-type the punchline to her qweefs? I mean, you cant make this stuff up, people. Then when she blogs she really focuses real hard and half closes her eyes and grits her teeth….”I’ve got to think of a really good one, okay, dont forget to double asterisk…”
She probably looks something like this when she blogs />{
But we all know she’s doing the best she can……
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
Domestic murder rates by state - the South - and Nevada - lead the nation
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
Obama/Nascar 08: It’s about changing right side tires, and hoping for a caution.
America 08: Insert Obama here.
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
That makes sense, GHT, about the south leadin’ in domestic murders, cause I just OJ’d my wife. (Served her breakfast in bed with orangejuice).
I’m gonna OJ my wife tomorrow too.
By James Winslo
July 12, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this
“By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
Domestic murder rates by state - the South - and Nevada - lead the nation”
To GodHatesTrash:
Can you break that down into how many are Yankee transplants or illegals ?
By James Winslo
July 12, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
To getalife:
Yankee Deaths 360,222 Confederate Deaths 258,000
We’ll take that and a better part of this country any day of the week !
P.S. Guess who doesn’t get to pick if it’s halftime?
By NewsFlash
July 12, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this
Well dang, GHT, you are just too educated and clever and all for me what with all that confusion on father’s day and all. Whoosh! That’s the sound it done made flyin’ low over my head like a stealth bomber. You just plain whooped me with that one. Speakin’ of whooped, you do know why you can’t cry Uncle in the South when you git whooped don’t you — not that they’d all admit to it or anything. Y’all probably don’t have that problem where you is from though do you — what with all them gay marriages and bein’ bornd in test tubes. Y’all refer to one or both of your parents by ID numbers.
By @@
July 12, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this
Morningstar @ 5:18:
Please take the time to revisit comments made by Democrats who are still in Washington. Many of them reiterated what George W. Bush was saying about WMDs before George Bush even got to Washington.
There was never a conviction for anyone outing Valerie Plame.
A president has little or no control over the economy.
I know you need someone to blame. People who have no control over their lives usually do.
Midori @ 5:21:
I especially liked this part from your Arianna Huffington - “I don’t care how many Iraqis have died.” hero.
Do we cower in the face of terror, or do we lead in the face of terror?
No we don’t cower. Our troops have led the way in Iraq and the citizens there are now ready to confront the terrorists.
It’s a success Midori. Why does success intimidate you so?
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this
Now James, the data shows that Yankees don’t murder their spouses at near the rate that you johnny rebs do. So more Yankees moving south means that your overall rates go down. So the murder rate for native trash is even higher than the stats show.
One of the many many terrible truths about kkkonservatives…
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this
Newsflash, an interesting link to a UGA study:
The kkkonservative dilemma regarding homosexuality - they find it disgusting, yet, evidently, highly arousing
Bet you can relate to this…
By Dusty
July 12, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this
God Hates Imported Trash….
Nothing new with you. You make up data as you go. Better known as lying.
When your picture comes on America’s Most Wanted, we will give you an hour before we call if you leave right away.. Now, smile! Your picture is on TV.
By the way, are you also PoFo? Your jokes are not funny just like his.
By Dusty
July 12, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this
God Hates IMported Trash,
Did the UGA study on mental deficiency give you a thrill when you were the prize subject of study??
Now don’t start sucking your thumb….you DID answer a couple of questions…
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this
Are you saying that I put those internet sites together, dustbrain?
You silly lying stupid cow. Stop your slander.
(I knew the article from the Journal of Abnormal Psychology was way way way above your head, but let me summarize - it seems that the more a man says he objects to homosexuality, the more sexually aroused he is by homosexual pornography.)
By Midori
July 12, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this
@@,
your immature, completely lacking attempts at humor are as much an embarrassment as your 78 year old husband.
now get back into the kitchen, child bride.
By Political Foreskin
July 12, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
Congrats to Dusty for getting quoted in today’s ajc page 11, I think.
You go girl.
By Dusty
July 12, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this
God Hates Imported Trash8:25
Dear pompous Full of bull and lies,
No, I don’t think you put those sites together. I don’t think you could put a jigsaw puzzle together. But anybody who studies Abnormal Psychology is most likely trying to find the cause of their problem. Good luck, buddy. You need all the help you can get.
By Dusty
July 12, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
PoFo @9:07
I don’t have the faintest notion what you are talking about. Hope it was the ‘high fashion’ section.
By GodHatesTrash
July 12, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this
Then you admit you are a liar.
Slander, lies and ignorance is all you ever have to offer. Shame on you.
By Obama woos convicts
July 12, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this
The number of voting rights restorations has not spiked in Shelby County. But local pollster Berje Yacoubian says the election in Tennessee is going to be very close. He says John McCain will most likely carry our state, but if the number of ex-convicts continues to climb, Barack Obama has a chance.
He says convicted felons are normally Democrats, so Shelby County won’t change the election. But, he says counties like Davidson, Hamilton and Madison, who have large numbers of convicted felons voting, could.
Woo hoo!!!!!!!
By Dusty
July 12, 2008 10:07 PM | Link to this
God Hates Imported Trash,9:52
You need to read Normal Psychology on how to tell the truth. You can’t even do THAT.
DO NOT WORRY. Your GED will not be taken from you.
By @@
July 12, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this
Midori:
My husband is nowhere near 78.
I’m bettin’ yours is what……$19.99 plus the cost of batteries.
Goodnight Midori.
Good vibrations.
By Midori
July 12, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this
you lie, @@!!!
i’ve seen his son’s picture!!!
what is it like having a stepson close to your own age?
By Midori
July 12, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
ah, so you know all about the 19.99 special, huh?
that 78 year old creep can’t get it up, huh?
thanks, but I don’t need your advice on the price of sex toys.
it appears you need that info more than I do.
I wonder — does he cut you a check, or does he shop online for your sex toys?
and does he make you take your shoes off before he tosses you into the kitchen?
inquiring minds…….
By obamagetlost
July 13, 2008 6:44 AM | Link to this
I can see it now….Obamadama’s 1st NASCAR race (give him car #1, due to his lack of experience is his 1st time). A big flip flop should be pictured on the hood, since he flip flops on issues. Most likely the car would be trying to turn right, instead of left. The pit crew would be arguing over who’s going to call the shots for the pitstop and the driver would be listening to rap crap while in the car. Most likely the car would wreck due to inexperience and Obamadama wanting the driver to do things that he shouldn’t be doing. Obamadama would be jive talking crap trying to act like he knew what was going on and stumbling over half of what he said, then back tracking and trying to say he didn’t say something he did. Like about the Bernie Mac deal. He said, “I’m just messin wichoo man.” Then saying later he denounced what Bernie said. Which is it Obamadama? You just messin with him and accepting him belittle females or denouncing what he said?
Now take the McCain #44 car, since he’d be the 44th prez…..experienced and stable - says what he means and doesn’t back track or try to flip flop. If he were in the NASCAR event, most likely the car would make it to the finish - perhaps even win.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
July 13, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
To Dale Jr from yesterday. Sorry but anybody I knew who made quality corn liquor has long since passed on.
To News Flash from yesterday, I know all about the link between racing and making liquor as my relatives were knee deep into both. Only cash crop we had up here in North GA. Course people up here wouldn’t have been making it if people in Atlanta weren’t buying it.
And by the way I never heard anybody who made corn liquor refer to themselves as “a moonshiner”. They didn’t call themselves anything they just said “back when I was making liquor”.
By chuckling out loud
July 13, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
I think it was the pet section.
By Copyleft
July 14, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this
Rather than pandering to the ignorant hicks, Obama should be setting an example for them. Time to vote for someone smarter than your beer-swilling, wife-beating neighbor. Maybe we need a LEADER rather than a good ol’ boy, hmm? We’ve seen where the other road leads us.
By Frederick Douglass
July 14, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this
Maybe Obama should try landing a jet on an aircraft carrier’s deck,narrowly miss taking out 134 sailors, and emerge with a fifth of Inverhouse gin shouting “Mission Accomplished”.