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Roy Barnes on an unappealing presidential field, and — of course — the Rev. Jeremiah Wright

For some Democrats, the enthusiasm isn’t contagious.

Former governor Roy Barnes laments the state of the presidential field in today’s Marietta Daily Journal.

“Out of a nation of 304 million, is this the best we have?” Barnes said. “I’m not excited about any of them.” It seems as if he still pines for John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator.

Barnes says he’s not going to Denver this summer. Probably a wise move for anyone who doesn’t want to be caught up in the crossfire between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

More interestingly, here’s what the former governor said to MDJ columnist Don McKee about Obama’s former pastor in Chicago:

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“Jeremiah Wright has done more in a week to damage Barack Obama’s campaign than Hillary Clinton has in the entire campaign,” Barnes said.

“He frightens me. I’ve been to a lot of black churches over the years and I’ve never heard anything like that. It gives Americans the wrong impression of what goes on in African-American churches. I have found them to be very patriotic. As Condoleezza Rice said: ‘African-Americans loved America when America didn’t love African-Americans.’”

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By Rarl Kove

May 5, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Roosting Wright-wing Chickens

By tom ga hunter

May 5, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Roy Barnes isn’t he the 1 who destroyed the Democratic party?

By Will Jones

May 5, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Words from Roy Barnes…further proof that his wife is the “man” in his family.

By Will Jones

May 5, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Roy Barnes: one more law school admit as Vietnam draft-dodge.

By Churchill

May 5, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

The Democrat party destroyed itself in this state. Roy helped, but doesn’t deserve all he credit.

By Who?

May 5, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

If you don’t like the candidates, then why don’t you run Roy?

And by the way, GDOT was just as screwed up under you as it is now.

By Frederick Douglass

May 5, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Dang, is Rev. Wright running for president? The same juxtaposed logic got us involved in Iraq. Barack is a member of the Obama family, Jeremiah is a member of the Wright family.

By Rarl Kove

May 5, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

What hath Rev. Wright wroght?

By GaLiberal

May 5, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

Like Bill Clinton, Roy Barnes has yet to take responsibility for single-handedly destroying the Democratic party in GA. He ham-fisted the flag issue so badly that it gave the Rethuglicons an issue to pick at with the racist rednecks in the rest of Georgia (ROG). Yea, Barnes was right to change the flag otherwise the state would have lost BILLIONS in conventions and athletic events (no Superbowl, no NCAA playoffs, etc.). The Laughing Fat Man ran on a platform to let voters choose, then once elected very quickly realized it was a very bad (read costly) idea. So he created his own crappy flag and let people chose between the Barnes flag or his. Victory was a shoo-in. With a Republican governor, many Democrats either jumped ship or lost their seats in the next election. Once Tom Murphy lost his seat, the end came quickly and now we are saddled with incompetent Rethuglicons running the state. Thanks Roy.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against our own best interests. And the Rethuglicons are living proof.

By DaninMacon

May 5, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

Barry is toast. Rednecks hate Rev Wright. As they should.

By Will Jones

May 5, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

You might be a Redneck if you’re smart enough not to get conned into voting for Vatican-banker Rockefeller’s, the Mafia’s, and General Sherman’s tools, Hillary and McCain, for president.

Godless trash may hate Rev. Wright since they might be un-American racists violating Our Motto E Pluribus Unum, but Genuine Georgia Rednecks, raised right on the Truth passed down through the generations, know the prophecy Rev. Wright is quoting is the G-d’s truth, recognize those backed 2 and 3 and 5 to 1 by Roman Catholics…McCain and Hillary…are tools of the same Anti-Christ we came here to escape: Corrupt Republicanism and Popery.

Thankfully Roman Catholics like my patriot grandfather are voting for true America in Obama and not for more Rome in Hillary and McCain.

The X-cross (St. Andrew’s) on the Confederate Battle Flag, the 95% White and Black non-slaveholding Southerners were willing to kill and die for, stands for “Protestantism Overseas,” and the man “of color” in the race is the only one with a clue as to why the illegals are pouring across our border to take over Our Country, thanks to the Roman Catholic Church and its minions, like McCain and Hillary, and their need to destroy the Spirit of American-born and believing Baptists and Protestants, White and Black, who think they shouldn’t have to punch a number on a state regulated utility company’s phone tree to talk to a representative in something other than Spanish.

In Washington, D.C., where I was born and raised before discovering the “New Jerusalem”/Atlanta on the way to Ft. Benning in the late Sixties, and on the Supreme Court - the same Court whose Catholics appointed a homosexual draft-dodger as President of the United States, cheating an elected bona fide Vietnam Vet, so he could commit 9-11 - everybody knows Rome “owns the town.”

Freemasons know, and America’s Masonic Founders, Whig, White and Black, knew of Rome, called Anti-Christ, and any true “Redneck” working man or woman in Georgia knows it was Sherman and his fellow Roman Catholics that marched down here the last time, with their pedophile priesthood, with carpetbaggers like Bob Barr and the corrupt G.O.P. establishment behind, now in power…dividing and conquering for the same Anti-Christ that killed John and Martin to send us to die for the corrupt Roman Catholics being run out of Vietnam by Jefferson-admirer Ho Chi Minh.

A real “Redneck,” Veteran, tradesman, honest working man or woman, the “Yeoman Artisanry” that is The People, sovereign once in this Land, knows Rome is the Anti-Christ, that Bush and his family with the Rockefellers, and Hillary and McCain, serves it, and knows by Grace that Obama is our best hope to restore America’s and Georgia’s righteousness…which is exactly what Roman scum want to confuse by talking bad about Rev. Wright…who is only reading out of the Prophets in Holy Scripture.

Those trying to knock Obama by knocking Rev. Wright would do well to spend some time in those same Scriptures, if their souls still have any value to them. As most of them are reprobates, likely none will read the advice this far down.

Rednecks are the body and soul of America. First in battle, here or there, doing honest work, receiving G-d’s blessing…”that ye may walk upright toward those who are without.” Mine Elect shall long enjoy the fruit of their own hands’ labor.

Time to make Obama elect and turn back the Anti-Christ tide taking us down.

May G-d bless America once more.

Death for Treason

Annuit Coeptis

www.theamericanfundament.blogspot.com

By jacksmith

May 5, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this

MY FELLOW “BITTER”, STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE :-)

If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of “BITTER”!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. :-(

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary’s than they had ever been before or since.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)

Best regards

jacksmith… Working Class :-)

p.s. You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you don’t know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering…

You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year. :-)

Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don’t die from. And I could go on, and on…

OBAMA AIDE: “WORKING-CLASS VOTERS NOT KEY FOR DEMOCRATS” :o

By Bitter EX democrackkk

May 5, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

Hey Roy Barnes, be thrilled that John Edwards is out of the picture…he’s nothing but a loser trial loiwyer…

Has his newest baby been christened yet in Chapel Hill? Was it a boy or girl? (totally covered up)…

By Allen

May 5, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

jacsmith: You ARE an idiot.

GaLiberal: Did you leave the “y” out of your moniker?

By Will Jones

May 5, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

Take cover! Sniper fire on the runway!

No honest person would vote for a liar…doesn’t make good sense.

Hillary’s of French Canadian extraction…seems Rome’s curse has stuck with her. Down the line, should the curse be lifted, some of her descent may become American, in full.

She voted for war on obvious lies by a homosexual draft-dodger cheated int the White House by Catholics on the Supreme Court.

Our blood is on her hands and it won’t wash off.

There’s no good in that and she knows it or she wouldn’t have stayed with the trash she married…tho’ his having Winthrop Rockefeller’s nose might have something to do with it.

By Lila Montgomery

May 6, 2008 12:24 AM | Link to this

I voted for B. Clinton and GW, both liars…so why not Hill

By Will Jones

May 6, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this

To thine own self be true…but redemption is just around the corner: Vote Obama and cleanse your soul.

By Melissa

May 6, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Is that what Rev. Wright told you Will?

By Will Jones

May 6, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Rev. Polonius Wright?

By DaninMacon

May 6, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Rev. Wright should have kept his mouth shut. He has swiftboated Obama. As a conservative, I love this. But what was Rev. Wright thinking? What was Obama doing going to that church in the first place. Obama is either, the stupidest man on the planet, or he agrees with Wright. Which is it? Does it really matter? He is unfit for office either way. The Rev Wright relationship will be the end of Obama Presidential efforts.

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