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By SharonH

November 10, 2006 10:52 PM | Link to this

In 2002, just before the elections the Democratic party mailed out postcards with a picture of the KKK holding a Confederate flag. The message was something like make sure you vote because we don’t want to go back.

I got to tell ya, I was outraged at the blatant manipulation and race-baiting.

And then guess what happened? Perdue got elected and the first thing he did was to whip out that freakin’ flag! And before it was over with, Republicans tried to suppress voters with the voter ID bill.

The postcard warning us what would happen was right!

So Karen Handel can go jump in a lake, her party started it with their Southern strategy. She feels betrayed, who cares?

By Rockdale "Whitey"

November 11, 2006 9:20 AM | Link to this

I am sure not pleased with the ad…but let’s face it. “Black: is a code word for Democrat and “Whitey” is a code name for Republican.

In politics a lot gets said that is not meant to be an indictment of either race. We all “play the race card.” We shouldn’t do it…but, it is no big deal.

By GodHatesTrash

November 11, 2006 9:24 AM | Link to this

Handel is a Georgia GOPer.

The GOP in Georgia is mostly the descendants of Klansmen and segregationists and other assorted idiotic white trash.

If she chooses to lie down with the pigs, she shouldn’t complain when people say she smells like pigsheet.

I am tired of people in the South that are too stupid to learn about their history.

By GodHatesTrash

November 11, 2006 9:24 AM | Link to this

BTW, good post SharonH.

By Republican voter

November 11, 2006 9:34 AM | Link to this

Response to SharonH: WAKE UP!

The gulf between Republicans and Democrats is so wide…how can this wonderful country ever be UNITED? The Dems want to destroy us to get their way and are willing to do any vile thing to achieve that end. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON THEY OPPOSE A PHOTO ID!

They CANNNOT win without cheating! A photo ID does not supress anyone from doing anything they want to do…but, it does prevent voter fraud! It is obvious why Dems don’t like it…they are not fooling anyone by calling it voter supression.

By Historic Inertia

November 11, 2006 9:45 AM | Link to this

Most Southerns will remain mired in the past for decades to come. It is the least progressive area of the country. No need to wonder why their education system is ranked at the bottom. 140 years later, many are still pizzed about the civil war. Given the opportunity, most would vote to succeed from the union. I say let them. The country would be better off. Too much emphasis on racial issues and not enough on a common cause that will benefit ALL people. Change is inevitable and Southerns will be brought along kicking and screaming like spoiled children. Sad state of affairs. Light years behind in every respect.

By Historic Inertia

November 11, 2006 9:54 AM | Link to this

Republican Voter, as I recall, it was the Repubs who were riddled with scandal of all kinds during this voting season. Your comments seem very hypocirtical and replete with myopic ramblings. Sad to be so out of touch with reality.

By Mike K.

November 11, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this

I’m still trying to figure out how requiring an ID to vote is suppressing people.

By John B.

November 11, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this

By John B. Link: I will agree with Mike K. that an ID to vote is not suppressing people. I also agree that The Poll Tax didn’t suppress the vote and, the “Whites Only” primary did not suppress the vote, and having to read and interpt a paragraph of the U.S. Constitution did not suppress the vote, and at large voting in local elections did not suppress the vote, and limiting the location of Polling Placess did not suppress the vote, and not being able to read and write did not suppress the vote. Signed, A Fifth Generation Georgian, Born October 30,1933.

By Mike K.

November 11, 2006 12:40 PM | Link to this

John B. would you have a problem if the ID’s were free to the public? What is wrong with having someone show identification that they are who they are when they vote? I don’t see a connection to those other instances you mentioned. Yes, those were intended to keep blacks from voting and they were horrible. Do you have proof that this is the case with the ID cards? If you or anyone can answer my question I would appreciate it.

By Mike K.

November 11, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

Actually now that I think about it, are the ID’s free? If you’re requiring them to vote I would think they would have to be right?

By Boney T

November 11, 2006 4:03 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike K. i’m a born and raised black male, 37 years old. I’m not old enough to remember the poll taxes and such. I dont see anything wrong with the IDs as long as they are free. However, when republicans come up with an issue like this, it automatically raises questions among democrats because of the history of the GOP in suppressing votes. From road blocks near black voting sites, to “purging voter rolls” to gerrymandering, we have good reason to doubt the intentions of probably well meaning republicans.

By Maddog88

November 11, 2006 4:15 PM | Link to this

Historic Inertia. I don’t know this for a fact but I’m guessing you live in the south. Now pray tell why would an enlightened northerner like yourself live amongst us dumb hicks? Maybe you can help all us hayseeds down here with all your progressive ideas. Heck maybe you can even team up with John Kerry ( a hero of yours I’m sure ) and bestow enlightenment on the great unwashed down here with your elitist attitudes.

By Historic Inertia

November 11, 2006 4:37 PM | Link to this

Maddogg 88 I’m as southern as they come. I was born here. Obviously I struck a nerve with you. My opinion was based on my experience growing up in the South and the things that I see every day. If I sounded elitist that certainly was not my intent. Nonetheless, I stand by my opinion. John Kerry is no hero of my mine. I am an independent. I will not allow myself to be ruled by blind allegiance like most of the democrats and the repubs. I suspect most people in this country, except in the south, are some place in the middle politically. Southerns are stuck in the past. The distance past, and like Trent Lott, often romanticize about the “good old days” when the klan ruled and women were relegated to being just house wives and second class citizens. You don’t have to agree with me and I don’t have to agree with you. It is what it is. Does that sound too much like Bill Clinton ? LOL!

By GodHatesTrash

November 11, 2006 9:50 PM | Link to this

Well, one can aspire to become one of society’s elite, or one can be proud inbred Georgia trash.

By Hunter

November 12, 2006 7:00 AM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash sounds really ‘inbred’… Until all states allow equal ballot access, and the clueless masses STOP being ‘ruled’ by demopublicans, elections will continue to oppress the people…

oh, and ‘STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrackkk’…

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2006 8:59 AM | Link to this

Let’s be honest, and face facts.

Georgia natives are pigs. Trash. Look at the governor, for Chrissakes.

Only when we are honest can we have meaningful dialogue.

By Republican voter

November 12, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this

LINK to “HistoricInert”: Please be specific regarding Republican voter scandals in this election. That song and dance about “hanging chads” in ‘04 was not a Republican problem…but found in Dem precincts where they attempted to illegally punch through stacks of multiple ballots. This would keep the “chads” from breaking loose. Try it with a punch and lightweight card stock…you will see what happens.

ALSO to “TrashGodHates…” the backwardness of native Georgians can only be the fault of 400 years of Democrat-based cultureal influence… SAD.

By Historic Inertia

November 12, 2006 12:55 PM | Link to this

First of all I vehemently DISAGREE with “Godhatestrash” and his diatribe against native Georgians. Those comments are reprehensible and untenable. Having said that, the repubs seem to think that they can do no wrong and know what’s best for the entire nation. (Unbridled Arrogance) Since I’m neither a dem or repub, both parties have disappointed me. Partisan politics has betrayed the American people in my opinion. When you believe too fervently in your position, it only portends bad things. Moderation and fexibility should be the order of the day. America cannot survive under an ultra right nor left wing regime. I will say that it seems the repubs play much more nastier than the dems and will use ANY tactic to press their issues and remain in power (e.g. race baiting, fear mongering, blatant lies, voting machine rigging, etc.) Until we can elect some one with vision who has the best interest of ALL the people, the American people will continue to get screwed politically and the world will continue to lose confidence in us.

By GodHatesTrash

November 12, 2006 8:50 PM | Link to this

Repuke voter, are you trying to blame “Democrat-based cultureal (sp) influence” on causing your daddy to have sex with his momma/sister and the rampant drunkeness and meth abuse that runs in redneck families? And 400 years of Democrats? Thomas Jefferson founded the party in 1792. Ask someone with some book-larnin’ to do the math for you, Cletus.

Anyhow, thanks for proving two of my points today in your last post - that Georgia trash is ignorant of history, and that Georgia is populated by pigs.

Oink.

By Republican voter

November 13, 2006 8:57 AM | Link to this

Mr. TrashGodHates: Georgians born before 2004 when we took full control were culturally influenced (deprived) by the Dems in power. This condition existed for the nearly four centuries whites populated the South. So, calling Georgians “pigs” is an indictment of their political/cultureal influence.

I would say your vulgarity is from one who would recognize both “red neck humor” as well as swine and various equine lineage.

By CobbGOPer

November 13, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash:

Delta is ready when you are, brother. Get the hell out of here!

By Gracie De Luxe en Vie

November 13, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this

Gotta keep an eye on those frenemies, whether you’re Sect. of State or here at the AJC! Case in point: http://spaceygreview.blogspot.com/2006/11/dont-have-to-kiss-your-editors-a*.html

By Gracie De Luxe en Vie

November 13, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this

A much better account of The Passion of Shirley Franklin than you’ll ever find from the AJC or a Republican is here: http://www.atlantamagazine.com/blogs/entry.php?id=223

By StoneMtnJoe

November 13, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

I have an idea for all those republicans who feel so strongly that voter IDs be used to guard against voter fraud: let’s require ALL VOTERS to get state-issued voter ID cards, whether one already has a GA Drivers’s license, or some other state-issued ID or not. If republicans are really being honest about their motives for wanting voter ID cards, they will not mind if everyone is equally inconvenienced by having to get one. I suspect, however, that the notion of everyone having to stand in long lines (while taking off time from their busy workday)will cause them to change their minds.

By CobbDemocrat

November 13, 2006 11:27 AM | Link to this

CobbGOPer — I’ll pitch in on Trash’s one way ticket out of town — if you want to help too.

By CobbGOPer

November 13, 2006 3:13 PM | Link to this

I’m always a fan of Yankee repatriation projects. I’ll raise money for any one of them that wants to go home and stop clogging up my highways.

It’s something on which I think we can come to bipartisan agreement!

By B

November 13, 2006 4:17 PM | Link to this

Historic Inertia - if you are going to claim that the Republicans play much more nastier than the dems and will use ANY tactic to press their issues and remain in power (e.g. race baiting, fear mongering, blatant lies, voting machine rigging, etc.) please back it up with facts. To me this is part of the problem. You make a baseless claim and everyone is supposed to accept it as truth. Republicans have not been the fear mongers - Did you not hear the ad with Franklin, Lewis, etc? That is fear mongering and race baiting. I don’t remember seeing anything like that on the Republican side. I guess when you have nothing to stand on you lie and create fear. This goes along with Republicans cutting school lunches - just not true. They cut growth but never reduced the actual dollar amount to anything.

That is the problem with the Republicans today - too much spending and not enough conservatism.

Vote rigging? Which party has had dead people in Chicago voting? Democrats. There is no basis for your claim on this.

Please get a little more informed.

Boney - Was it only Republicans that suppressed votes? I think not. Do you realize that the Democrats are the ones keeping minorities down now.

By James

November 13, 2006 4:34 PM | Link to this

I think it’s really funny that everyone seems to think the South is still that backward and racist. If you have ever been to the rural midwest you know that it is much worse there. Sure, there are still plenty of people who are racist in the south. But they are a minority. I think we have moved past that. Your average southerner would not vote to succeed from the union or levy a poll tax or any of that crap.

And I love how you keep insinuating that it’s Republicans who are always racist and supress voting rights, when 15 years ago (and certainly 40 yrs ago during the Civil Rights era) the majority of the South was a Democratic stronghold.

By GodHatesTrash

November 13, 2006 5:04 PM | Link to this

I’ll be succinct today - what an effing bunch of redneck clodhoppers on this blog.

Where to begin - the ignorance from you southron ignoranuses seems to have no bounds!

First, Repuke voter - the Democratic Party did not start until 1792, 214 years ago - as a product of Georgia schools, you evidently didn’t know that four centuries is 400 years. So there is no way that the Democratics have been in charge for 400 years - do you see now Cletus? Can one of you other cretins help Cletus out with this?

And B(ullsheet) - you must have a tin ear for hate speech, or maybe you don’t listen to Atlanta talk radio.

And now to idjit James, who thinks that the Southron Democrats magically evaporated 40 years ago. That would have been nice. Instead, they became GOPers. Goobernor Sonny Pigman Purdue is a perfect example of white trash that used to be a Dem that is now a Repuke.

Oinks all around to all you redneck scum.

By GodHatesTrash

November 13, 2006 5:19 PM | Link to this

I hate to burst your Bush-loving bubble again James, but John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960 (46 years ago for you Georgia educated) was the last Democrat to win a majority of the white vote in the South in a Presidential election.

In 1964, you clodhoppers voted for Barry Goldwater (GOP). In 1968 you voted for George Corley Wallace. In 1972 Tricky Dick Nixon. In 1976 Gerald R. Ford - you wouldn’t even vote for a fellow southerner. In 1980 and 1984, Ronnie Raygun. In 1988 George I Bush. In 1992 George I Bush, in 1996 you went for Bob Dole, in 2000 and 2004 - Dumbya.

So, aside from your strong support of the racist Wallace, southern whites have been voting for race-baiting Repukes for almost half a century (50 years for the Georgia educated).

By B

November 14, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash - this is the only time I will respond to you. Please leave the blog - you are doing no good for your cause or any cause at all. All of the name calling is uncalled for. All of the hate speech that you spew is uncalled for.

As for Atlanta talk radio being hate speech - I think you are hyper sensitive or it has been brainwashed into you from an early time that Republicans hate minorities - simply not true. Unfortunately minorities have been told lies about conservatives for many years. The facts are that the Democrats are the ones who are keeping minorities down. Republicans want school vouchers so underpriviledged kids can go to better schools. Is that racist? No.

When you have the top 50% paying 96.54% of taxes and the bottom 50% demands more there is something wrong. There is a sense of entitlement that is damaging the minorities for years to come. How about making something of yourself? They have every opportunity to advance themselves now. The South is very progressive.

By B

November 14, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash - this is the only time I will respond to you. Please leave the blog - you are doing no good for your cause or any cause at all. All of the name calling is uncalled for. All of the hate speech that you spew is uncalled for.

As for Atlanta talk radio being hate speech - I think you are hyper sensitive or it has been brainwashed into you from an early time that Republicans hate minorities - simply not true. Unfortunately minorities have been told lies about conservatives for many years. The facts are that the Democrats are the ones who are keeping minorities down. Republicans want school vouchers so underpriviledged kids can go to better schools. Is that racist? No.

When you have the top 50% paying 96.54% of taxes and the bottom 50% demands more there is something wrong. There is a sense of entitlement that is damaging the minorities for years to come. How about making something of yourself? They have every opportunity to advance themselves now. The South is very progressive.

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2006 1:01 PM | Link to this

B, indoor plumbing doesn’t make you progressive. Wiping your butt regularly, cleaning up your trailer, regular bathing, and a decent education (not the crap that Georgia schools provide) is more important.

I’ll post here whenever I want, numbnuts. If you can’t handle the Terrible Truth About Georgia Rednecks, go elsewhere.

By KKKonservative Kool-Aid

November 14, 2006 1:28 PM | Link to this

Georgia rednecks still drink it.

Trent Lott - the new Minority Leader.

KKKons are clueless.

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2006 2:02 PM | Link to this

Today the AJC has pictures of true heroes on the front page - John Lewis, Andy Young, and Jesse Jackson. Men who stood up to the bullets, batons, bullwhips and firehoses of angry rednecks, north and south, and fought for basic freedoms denied to them by un-American white racist trash.

Karen Handel, like most white Georgians, is a fat oblivious clown. Shame on her for sucking up to a hatemonger like Hannity.

By CobbGOPer

November 14, 2006 3:26 PM | Link to this

And we’re still taking donations for our Yankee Repatriation Program.

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2006 6:07 PM | Link to this

You miserable lowlife rednecks - always trying to bum money for something - get a job. Maybe you’ll have some money then.

I swear, you are the sorriest humans on the face of this earth.

By Historic Inertia

November 14, 2006 6:53 PM | Link to this

B, I think that “Compassionate Conversativism” has clouded your judgment. I’ll refrain from being as crass’ deameaning and insulting as “godhatestrash” because I don’t think that disparaging anyone serves any useful purpose. However statments like “When you have the top 50% paying 96.54% of taxes and the bottom 50% demands more there is something wrong. There is a sense of entitlement that is damaging the minorities for years to come. How about making something of yourself? They have every opportunity to advance themselves now. The South is very progressive”. This speaks volume about how out of touch you are living in your shelterd little world. This is what listen to Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter will do to you. I don’t want to even get in to the Harold Ford commercial or calling people and telling them they can vote by phone or that their polling places had changed. This statement is even more laughable “Sure, there are still plenty of people who are racist in the south. But they are a minority. I think we have moved past that. Your average southerner would not vote to succeed from the union or levy a poll tax or any of that crap.” What South do you live in?!?!?

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2006 7:13 PM | Link to this

These inbreds believe the idiot voices they hear on their hate radio stations and from the pulpits of their KKKhristian churches, where hate and stupidity are the order of the day. B is a resident of Kimmerville, or Boortzitania, Hannity Town, Zoeller City, Crockosheet, or Schaeffer Homes - some no account sheethole in ‘burbs of Atlanta - most likely in Cobb or Gwinnett, with like simple-minded people.

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2006 7:15 PM | Link to this

You know, Karen, Shirley can hang out with some real heroes and people they write history books and make movies about - why would she want to be friendly with a sallow stupid cow like you?

By GodHatesTrash

November 14, 2006 8:33 PM | Link to this

You know, Karen, Shirley can hang out with real Civil Rights era heroes, people of substance - people they’ve written books and made movies about - why would she want to be friendly with a whiner/hater like you?

By B

November 15, 2006 9:01 AM | Link to this

Historic - I did not say that last part. Someone else did. So are you disputing the fact that the top 50% of wage earners pay 96.5% of taxes? What is fair about that? Why should those who succeed have to pay more? For the most part they earned it through their own good fortune and hard work. That is not the case with all of them but for the most part it is. Here is the thing about posting on here - no one knows my background, what color I am, etc. I will say that most are wrong in their assesment of me.

I don’t listen to Rush or Ann. I don’t even listen to the radio.

As far as the Harold Ford ad - uncalled for in my opinion. If someone is wrong I call them on it, period. But that ad is very different in that it was showing Harold Ford had been to the Playboy Mansion. Harold Ford also lied about being a lawyer. So in that sense it was right - although the way the ad was done was wrong with the white woman and the black man. The ad here in Fulton County was flat out wrong - no one is taking away rights, no one is going back to waterhoses or anything like that. What they said in that ad is wrong.