Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

December 15, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this

No matter what “airs” you liberals want to put on Bruno, she’s still Arkkkansas trailer park trash.

With a Bubba for a “husband.”

Can you blame Oblahmi for not wanting more of these perverts around?

By GOP is gone

December 15, 2008 7:21 AM | Link to this

Sam Nunn?

By DB, Gwinnettian

December 15, 2008 7:27 AM | Link to this

Jay, linkee to politico, she is FUBAR.

By DB, Gwinnettian

December 15, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this

Here is correct linkee.

And I think the story’s little more than filler, but I guess it’ll give some here something to talk about. For those who bother to read the whole thing, you’ll see that there are several interest groups who feel they’ve been slighted so far.

This is standard-issue stuff going into a new Administration.

By SC Birdflyte

December 15, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

There’s been a spirited debate at THE STATE in Columbia over whether Inez Tenenbaum should be nominated as Secy. of Education. She’s a sweet-tea twofer: born and raised in GA, now living in SC.

By Yankee

December 15, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this

I for one would prefer if Obama not place any Southerners in his Cabinet. The moment you MORONS open your mouths, us Norherners automatically thinks you are IGNORANT. That Southern drawl next to Sarah Palin’s North Dakota speak are two of the most annoying and ignorant dialect ever. You Southerners should stick to local politics and should not even be allowed to send representatives to the Congress who speaks with that Southern drawl. Speak proper English

By AJC/DNC Management

December 15, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

Does this not sum up liberalism in a nutshell?

The moment you MORONS open your mouths, us Norherners automatically thinks you are IGNORANT.

Freaking Obama voters, get an education, would ya?

By DB, Gwinnettian

December 15, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

THANKS FOR FIXING. GIV ME TURKEE NOW?

By Copyleft

December 15, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

More like “Freaking Southerners need to get an education… then, the grownups might start taking you seriously.”

Or are you still pretending the southern states don’t consistently rank lowest in education?

Red states = dumb states.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 15, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Copyleft- You may want to check into the subject a bit further but Cobb County consistently scores higher than the national average.

It’s the moron Obama voters that drag Georgia down.

You know, people like you.

By MissV

December 15, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Maybe they’ll be assistants to this group. That way somebody is always overseeing their actions.

By DB, Gwinnettian

December 15, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Inez Tenenbaum? Well, if John Stossel hates her, she can’t be all bad, I suppose.

By Freddy K.

December 15, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

The South will be where it has been since the War of Northern Aggression, left out until the Yankee peckerwoods want our tax dollar for their BS projects.

By tonya

December 15, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Why should he?. He is going by the job description and expertise background.

AJC always blogs controversies that but yet won’t blog themselves. Hypocrites.

By Southern

December 15, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

hey Yankee,

If you recall we wanted to stick to local politics but you yankees wouldn’t let us.

By tonya

December 15, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Why should he? He is going by job description and expertise.

AJC always has a controversies/negative blog, yet they won’t dare take a poll or blog on themselves. Hypocrites.

By tonya

December 15, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Why should he? He is going by job description and expertise.

AJC always has a controversies/negative blog, yet they won’t dare take a poll or blog on themselves. Hypocrites.

By Freddy K.

December 15, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Yankee, atleast when you hear Southern Drawal you know there better than 25 percent that they are tell you the truth and mean what they say. Instead of you arrogant yankee pieces of poop who always lie, cheat and steal.

By trevor

December 15, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Look I am sick of the name calling and foolish speculation. Why can’t Obama pick who he feels is best fit for whatever position, without it being an ordeal. We are one country with one president. As Americans we have a duty to support our president and his/her decisions. If we put as much effort into assisting our leaders and trying to work together nothing could impede our country. Here’s to 2009 and prosperity for all.

By Bosch

December 15, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Sweet tea sucks. It’s gross. Why not just skip the tea and drink sugar syrup?

I know, that’s like me saying grits suck - they certainly don’t, especially when you enter cheese and shrimp into the grit equation.

Two words. “Sam Nunn”

By Trash4life

December 15, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

That’s because people of the south cannot run squat! Bush had southerners in his cabinet…Need I say more?

By Goldie

December 15, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

As I’ve mentioned before, I think that GA and a few other southern states should go ahead and try for secession again… they may just get their wish this time!

By formersds

December 15, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

The South is too far removed from the thug corrupt politics in Chicago. Obama has plenty of cronies there from which to choose his cabinet.

By Sowega

December 15, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Our democratic political bench might be thin, but this isn’t a damned ball game, and you don’t have to be a politician to be a good cabinet chief. We have lot’s of good folks with perfect expertise for cabinet jobs, but they’re being snubbed. You’d at least think somebody could represent us as Secretary of Agriculture. What’s wrong with Bishop as Ag. chief? So much for change—the only change is that the South gets screwed.

If you’re a progressive Southerner who yet believes in the strength of our institutions and people, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I can’t believe I got played by this campaign. I fell for it. This new administration is shaping up to be the same ol’ same ol’. I guess my daddy did raise a fool.

By For States rights

December 15, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Is this the change by exclusion. All I have seen so far is warmed over Clinton…except for Monica.

By AmVet

December 15, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Andy, tis the season!

But you are exceptionally noxious lately.

Wazzzup? Not got the spirit of the baby Jeebus?

That the BushCo Belt is unrepresented in the new Cabinet is no reason to be concerned. Far from it. It’s called the new reality, where the outdated GOP, in it’s current hemorrhaging form, is essentially irrelevant in a huge part of the country anymore.

Most reasonable Americans are simply unwilling to give the neo-cons any more chances whatsoever, given the debacle of the past eight years.

And that is unlikely to change significantly for several (many?) more years…

By Hurricane

December 15, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

By FrankLeeDarling

December 15, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Freddy k I have to disagree with the assertion that southerners are more honest,I find that they fake nice to your face then talk crap behind your back, you know good southern manners.

By Dub

December 15, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Yankee,

Take your a** back to the north then, that is, if you’re even man enough to live in the SOUTH as you speak you ignorant moron. At least you can use proper grammar the next time you open your mouth! “…us Norherners automatically thinks you are IGNORANT” That would be think you idiot. And Northerners requires “r.”

Are Northerners not smart enough to spell check? Get a life and get off of us Southerners’ vent!!!

By lovelyliz

December 15, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Do you really expect any president to pick candidates from opposition areas? It’s not like those that Obama is choosing aren’t highly qualified.

By formersds

December 15, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Obama should try to get the most qualified people. But he’s paying back those who helped buy him the election.

By the by - Obama is probably the least qualified himself.

By Bosch

December 15, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Southerners are too partisan. Why are you wingnuts or anyone else surprised there is no Southerners in the cabinet?

That’d be like the Road Runner giving Wile E. Coyote a job.

By Dub

December 15, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Yankee,

Take your a** back to the north then, that is, if you’re even man enough to live in the SOUTH as you speak you ignorant moron. At least you can use proper grammar the next time you open your mouth! “…us Norherners automatically thinks you are IGNORANT” That would be think you idiot. And Northerners requires “r.”

Are Northerners not smart enough to spell check? Get a life and get off of us Southerners’ vent!!!

By lovelyliz

December 15, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Abig Amen to FrankLeeDarling Southerners in general can be every bit as 2 faced as everyone else. They can also be as generous.

Personally, I prefer honesty, but that’s just me

By FrankLeeDarling

December 15, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Ignorance knows no boundaries.Have you ever been to western Penn.? Yins ought to see some of those hillbillys.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 15, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that “global warming” is a hoax but you do have to be somewhat of a mental defective not to see the obvious-

White Sulphur Springs reported 29 degrees below zero to the National Weather Service today, stretching way beyond the last daily record low of 17 degrees below zero set in 1922.-GreatFallsTribune

Now let’s see, which political party is it that thinks man is causing the climate to heat up?

I rest my case.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 15, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Another criminal and hack outed on the “intelligent” Oblahmi team-

Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — A federal grand jury is investigating how a company that advised Jefferson County, Alabama, on bond deals that threaten to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, did similar work in New Mexico after making contributions to Governor Bill Richardson’s political action committees.

The grand jury in Albuquerque is looking into Beverly Hills, California-based CDR Financial Products Inc., which received almost $1.5 million in fees from the New Mexico Finance Authority in 2004 after donating $100,000 to Richardson’s efforts to register Hispanic and American Indian voters and pay for expenses at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, people familiar with the matter said.- Bloomberg

Cronyism and fraud, a way of life in the democrat party.

By Eric1

December 15, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

I don’t think we need any rednecks or hillbillies on the cabinet anyway.

By Watta Load

December 15, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Southerners aren’t any more or less intelligent than any region. They are just ignorant…and what is worse, they are proud of being ignorant. Then you add their typical stubbornness and close-mindedness, and you have a whole region of people that refuse to even consider any other point of views than those they already possess. Obama has no reason to include anyone with that mentality.

And before anyone calls me a yankee and tells me to go back up north, I’m from the south..I was born in Charleston, SC, and grew up in NC and in Atlanta (which is unfortunately surrounded by east Alabama..I mean Georgia). But I have been lucky enough to have spent a few years in the Northeast and a couple on the West Coast, and I unfortunately have to agree with most of what Yankee says about the south.

By Craig

December 15, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Look at the failing school systems in the South…all run by Obama supporters. Clayton County is a good example. So yes Obama supporters have dragged education down in Red states. The intelligence in Red states typically enrolls in private schools or home school to avoid union thuggery and complete incompetence - see Clayton County, GA for the symbol of this logic. Frankly I wish Obama would take the whole rotting corpse of Clayton County BoE to DC to finish off public education once and for all. Maybe we can get local control back and rebuild education from the ground up.

By RealityKing

December 15, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Obama is clearly playing the same old disgusting political payback game with his administration picks, Chicago style. They’re all the same, Gov. Blagojevich’s only mistake was being caught on tape. Of course, you’re not going to hear that truth from the progressive MSM because it doesn’t fit into their pro Obama agenda. Moronic questions about the obvious however…

By itpdude

December 15, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

What about John Edwards… oh, yeah, nm.

By In a word...

December 15, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Good

By tcoach

December 15, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Seems that there are many a prejudice, bigots out and about this morning.

1st Obama can pick who he chooses, because he won the election and these are the people who will answer to him. More importantly they are the people that Obama will have to answer for to the American people.

2nd- Why do some of you feel that it is fine and acceptable for you to stereotype southerners with all of the insults and put-downs. Yet, you are some of the same people who would cry in outrage if anything was said this way about a race or sexual orientation.

Guess it is okay to be a bigot as long as its against white southerners.

Be consistent and not so hypocritical

By RB from Gwinnett

December 15, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

If you don’t like southerners, don’t live here, but don’t bring your rude arrogant attitudes down here and whine. The same road that brought you here will take you back. Don’t let the door hit you…

Copyleft, what is your statement about southerners ranking low in education based on?

By Grady Baby

December 15, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

It’s really amazing how many people claim that people from the south are so ingnorant and you can’t stand our southern drawl. Well, guess WHAT!!! You brought your a&* to the south for the comfort of housing and the job market. Now that the market hurting throughout the country - you want to throw stones. Us Southerners were doing just fine before you migrated our area. GO back up North and raise your bad $%^ children and leave us to our Sweet Tea. And frankly I don’t blame Obama for now wanting to put anyone from the South in his cabinet- the northerners have corrupted our minds.

By RealityKing

December 15, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

It’s like James Carville said: Cronyism and political backscratching are only wrong if aired publically, there’s nothing wrong with hiring or promoting friends requardless of qualifications. It’s called networking..

By Freddy K.

December 15, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Very well put tcoach.

By Yankee Go Home

December 15, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

That “Yankee” (at 7:50 a.m.) made at least four grammatical errors in just a handful of sentences reflects both on his intelligence and judgment.

Conceit is a strange disease. It makes everybody sick except the one that possesses it.

By sweet pea

December 15, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

These comments make me sick. I am a Southerner who happens to be Republican, but I think that the most qualified people need to be in President-elect Obama’s administration in order to get the country back on track.

Wake up folks…we are in a crisis in this great country of ours. We simply do not have the time to squabble over geographic demographics. When the unemployed go back to work, will he or she say a Northerner or a Southerner made it happen? I don’t really think so. For once, can we unite as a country??

By Freddy K.

December 15, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Very well put tcoach.

By Morningstar

December 15, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

By Yankee December 15, 2008 7:50 AM Speak proper English

Good morning sweetie. Bless your little heart. Are you one of those northern transplants who came to the sunny south following a job, or to get out of the ice and cold following retirement? Never mind, I have some wonderful friends who hail from north of the Mason Dixon.

At any rate, if you are living here (in the South), it is YOU who have the accent. On the other hand, if one from the beautiful Sunny South moves to your neck of the woods, notably they will speak with an accent. Since you’re so well versed in language, you may have noticed varying accents in different parts of EVERY state.

Since, in your vocabulary, the ‘crik’ flows toward the river or lake, what do you call that big pain in your neck? Oh I know; it’s a ‘creek.’

Have a nice day y’all.

By For States rights

December 15, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Hey Yankee since us Southerners speak so poorly then perhaps you should proof read your comments. I believe that correct English sentence structure is as follows; You state “Us northerners automatically thinks you are IGNORANT.” Since you are so enlightened with proper English…maybe you mean “We northerners automatically think you are IGNORANT.” Moron

By RealityKing

December 15, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

It’s true RB from Gwinnett. The South’s minority laden school districts consistently rank near the national bottom. Right along with the minority laden school districts of the north and west. But of course, lets not forget that America’s public school average is a world class joke. So evidently.., CopyLeft’s beef with the south is racially motivated.

By Road Scholar

December 15, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Well said Sweet Pea. We need to change from a nation of whiners (ala Phil Gramm) and come together to acknowledge our differences, but to solve our problems. No one will get exactly what they want, but constructive input, respectful dialogue, and sound decisionmaking will allow us to move forward. Wallowing in ones alledged misfortunes or disagreements, and excessive greed for money and having “your” way has gotten us to where we are today, up Sh!ts Creek.

Obama hasn’t even been gotten sworn in yet and the criticism of “what he’s going to do” has been deafening. If you can tell the future with such clarity, I would like six winning lottery numbers!

By Copyleft

December 15, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Google “Education rankings by state” and you’ll see Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennesse, Arkansas, and Louisiana… all in the bottom ten, year after year.

By Johnny Reb

December 15, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

It really doesn’t matter who he puts where. There will be not the big change that was promised. Like all the rest he talked a good game, now he will do what he had planned. Raise taxes on everything possible and continue to screw over the everyday tax payer no matter what race they may be or claim to be. The government can bail out big business and foreign countries with billions of tax payer dollars, but everyday people will only get more and more taxes. It is the S.O.S from local governments all the way to the federal government. Same old S.O.S.D.D.

By Bobby

December 15, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

This is why we need an independent South. We should put a gate across I85 and any other routes that permit Northerners into the South. Maybe I’ll throw my shoes at Obama if he appears in Georgia.

By Morningstar

December 15, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

So, President Elect Obama has selected no ‘non supporters?’

Silly man.

By AmVet

December 15, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

I had a co-worker from Connecticut, who some years ago, had the best line ever on this topic:

“We are simply here to claim what is rightfully ours.”

It doesn’t make the traitors/secessionists happy, but my advice to them is simple - trying winning something once in awhile…

By GodHatesTrash

December 15, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Booby, good idea.

But your welfare cheese doesn’t grow on trees, and that means you have to pay for your own wars, Johnny Reb.

By Caroline

December 15, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Red states tend to be less educated and have more working class whites. Blue states tend to be more educated and more diverse. Sorry Southerners, those are just the facts. The statistics from the last election bear this out.

By GodHatesTrash

December 15, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Actually Duh, Clinton grew up in the Chicago area.

Not that trailer trash can’t come from the Chicago area.

Right?

By demwit

December 15, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

I hear the search for talent at the AJC was met with some resistance..

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By GA VALUES

December 15, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

What a surprise. I thought for sure that he would tap SISSY SAXBY for Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs.