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Obama tackles Buckhead
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is in Buckhead, an hour behind schedule, but preparing for a high-dollar fund raiser at banquet hall 103 West.
Obama’s plane, his second of the day, landed at Atlantic at Hartsfield, a private terminal, shortly before 6:30 p.m. His first plane, you might have heard, had mechanical issues en route to Charlotte and had to land in St. Louis. The candidate and his entourage switched planes and pushed on to Atlanta.
Once on the ground, the candidate, in a dark suit and pale blue tie, climbed down the rolling staircase and got into a waiting SUV. His motorcade of six cars and a bus zoomed up I-85 to the Downtown Connector and on to Buckhead. No blue lights on the interstates, but a few blocked intersections on surface streets.
The motorcade came up Moores Mill Road to West Paces Ferry, which luckily allowed us to miss the construction nightmare just two blocks away.
103 West is on West Paces Ferry, and the bus carrying the national press pool got a glimpse of some of Atlanta’s finest homes, including the Georgia governor’s mansion.
More to come.
— Aaron Gould Sheinin
Jim Galloway is on vacation. If you’ve got news, pop an e-mail to our political team: editor Susan Abramson at sabramson@ajc.com; staffers Aaron Gould Sheinin at asheinin@ajc.com; James Salzer at jsalzer@ajc.com; Ben Smith at bsmith@ajc.com; and Jim Tharpe at jtharpe@ajc.com.



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Comments
By CBL
July 7, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this
The candidate for “change” and “hope” for the working classes being ushered past Atlanta’s statliest homes- how surprising. If that’s not hypocracy, he must have been summing up the ability for some Atlantans to pay for all of the new nationalized and universal social programs he’s touting.
By Wizard of Oz
July 7, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this
Where is the KKK when you need ‘em? Can’t they hold a counter-rally across the street from 103 West?
Iraq Hussein Osama (aka, Barak Hussein Obama) is a FRAUD.
By bigred
July 7, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
The candidate for “change”and “hope” INDEED!He is in town to raise some “change” from the pockets of those that don’t have holes in them and he “hope” nobody makes a big deal ‘bout it!What a joke!Georgia’s VOTE don’t mean nuttin’ anyway,right?I wouldn’t give this man a dime unless it was to leave town!Is that what is referred to as chump change?
By Analchord
July 7, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
Obama 08: He leads.
McCain 08: He renamed his French Fries. Okay, he pierced his McNuggets with a flag lapel pin too. Voodoo Patriotism is better than that shoe lighter Obama anyday.
Common Sense 08: You decide.
By Not Surprised
July 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this
Wow!! You guys have such CLASS! Your level of education and insight makes me so PROUD to be a Georgian!
Many, many prayers for your bigoted hearts.
By Jay
July 7, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this
Obama beat being in the bed with the Bushes. These HIGH GAS PRICES and we control all the oil in IRAQ come on PEOPLE wake up. WE get most of our from CANADA anyway. 12 BIllion a month on a war that was to pay for it self with oil profits. BUSH and his cronies are the only ones getting paid.
Oh not to mention selling the people out to CHINA. YES Communist CHINA get real. And we are suppose to be scared of CUBA. WAKE UP. Enough said our taxes are already being raised every time the price of gas goes up. AND WE THE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE STUPID!!!! Change is a coming. OBAMA 08. HELL gas was cheaper when Sadam was in power.
By Haters are every where
July 7, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this
The bigger question is are you all making these remarks about Obama because he is black and a majority believe in him or because you all truely feel that Obama is bi-racial liar, who secretly is a rich muslim politician who will be a worse president than Bush. He grew up in a single parent family and then passed on to his grand mother, went to college on student loans, was first in his class coming out of college, and set his path methodically to beome a successful politician. Besides being half black this guy is whiter than most of you who are making these racist remarks. The primaries are over, this is a new game and the stakes are higher. He’s rasing money like every other presidential candidate in the history of this country, so why is he elitest by doing this, wow. To all of you who say tht your over judging people by there race please re-evaluate your selves. As an African American I feel that Obama can relate to the majority alot better than his competitor.
By Frederick Douglass
July 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this
Wizard of Oz, couldn’t you place a call to the Klavern that you belong to? I’m sure they’d get right on over there if the Grand Dragon asked them to.
By They Call Me Thunder
July 7, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this
After reading the comments in this thread, it becomes obvious that there are no compelling reasons to allow people to comment on AJC blogs.
By Bob
July 7, 2008 10:01 PM | Link to this
Interesting - The candidate for “change” and “hope” for the working classes being lemoed past Atlanta’s statliest homes - past right by John McDonald’s and Anthony Pratt’s fine WPF Atlanta homes.
Obama - It is folks like this that paid for yo mamma’s PhD in archaeology when she decided to go back to school and sign up for food stamps back in Hawaii.
By Bruce
July 7, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this
To All Trailer Park Republicans
Please use your brains for once and stop being used by the republicans as a vote only! The rich do not like or associate with “white trash”—- but use you fools to stay in power. Got to love it—- complete idiots…
The reason rich white people do not associate with poor whites is that they consider them complete failures. Everything in this country is geared toward them and they still can’t succeed!! Can we say LOSERS!!
So white people in the south just keep handing the republicans political victories but get absolutely NOTHING in return.. “Southern Whites” are always talking about welfare and food stamps going to Blacks and Hispanics—- what the idiots don’t realize is that the percent of the U.S. budget spent on all that stuff combined is less than 1%!! The real money is spent on wars—- white idiots, read and learn instead regurgitating what your hear!!
By DHD
July 7, 2008 11:07 PM | Link to this
If you want change, see a cashier.
By Al Gore
July 7, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this
He took a SUV????????
By Bruce
July 7, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this
To All Trailer Park Republicans
Please use your brains for once and stop being used by the republicans as a vote only! The rich do not like or associate with “white trash”—- but use you fools to stay in power. Got to love it—- complete idiots…
The reason rich white people do not associate with poor whites is that they consider them complete failures. Everything in this country is geared toward them and they still can’t succeed!! Can we say LOSERS!!
So white people in the south just keep handing the republicans political victories but get absolutely NOTHING in return.. “Southern Whites” are always talking about welfare and food stamps going to Blacks and Hispanics—- what the idiots don’t realize is that the percent of the U.S. budget spent on all that stuff combined is less than 1%!! The real money is spent on wars—- white idiots, read and learn instead regurgitating what your hear!!
By Obama4change
July 7, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this
You bigots out there love to spread lies and say “Obama is Muslim” yada yada yada. But then, YOU criticize him for his PASTORS remarks. But wait, he’s Muslim! Muslims don’t have pastors. You freaking inbreds are too backwards to realise that your president has screwed everyone over including you broke arses. You must love your pickup trucks and $5.00 gallon gas, but I see many of you same rednecks in Toyota corollas today flying your dixie flags. You don’t realise it, but it’s your current president’s doing. He’s changed YOUR lively hood. I know if Obama succeeds, wins, and does a damn good job, you will start claiming that he’s really white because he was raised by white people. You make me so effin sick!
By PS
July 7, 2008 11:40 PM | Link to this
Change is just around the corner whether you simple minded racists accept it or not. If you don’t like it then Leave and don’t come back, No one will miss a bigot anyway!!!!!!!
By Trailer Park Republican
July 7, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this
Stop listening to the Republicans and start listening to some guy called Bruce who calls us “white idiots?”
By Frederick Douglass
July 8, 2008 12:24 AM | Link to this
Cream colored idiots, is that better?
By Bitter EX democrackkk
July 8, 2008 6:14 AM | Link to this
STRIVE to be SMARTER than a member of the ORIGINAL ‘party’ of SLAVERY, the democrat party, as they continue to ENSLAVE us ALL daily!
Emancipation: Revelation or Revolution?
www.ERRVideo.com
Show it in every black church in America!
By kITTY
July 8, 2008 6:23 AM | Link to this
Many people think that the south is made up of bigoted rednecks. Many of the remarks on this site just goes to prove what others think. Would your view of Obama be different if people stopped introducing him as a black man with a white mother and started introducing him as a white man with a black father. But even beyond his race the question is “Would I be so prejudiced as to hate a man that could put an extra dollar in my pocket and make like better for me and my children?”
By MiltonMan
July 8, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this
Obama is dumber than I thought. Actually believing he can win Georgia. Look at what the DemoRats in this state have done to Clayton County, city of Atlanta, etc. DemoRats on this board using vitriolic language makes me laugh.
By former democrat
July 8, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this
I have held on as a southern Democrat as long as I can. But no more! The Democrats have nominated the least qualified candidate in my lifetime. I am absolutely scared to death that this man could possibly be president.
So, this Democrat will gladly vote for John McCain. At least we’ll have an adult in the White House with some experience.
And yes I am a small business man and I know what Obama’s tax plan will do to our weakened economy—kill it.
McCain 08 for me!
By Copyleft
July 8, 2008 7:58 AM | Link to this
Lotta so-called “former Democrats” following the Rush script, aren’t they? Pretending that people with an ounce of sense and liberal voting record are suddenly “disgusted” with Obama.
Very plausible, yessiree.
It’s nice of President Obama to visit ALL the states, even the hopelessly backward ones. After all, he’s president of ALL of us, not just the ones with enough sense to vote for him.
By Analchord
July 8, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
Former Democrat: Light your shoes.
Obama 08: He leads.
By DT
July 8, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
Obama ‘08!!!!!!!!
By Sam1234
July 8, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this
ObamaOsama is a sleeper muslim.
By Craig
July 8, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this
And sam is a liar.
By Copyleft
July 8, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
Keep sayin’ it, Sam. You’re proving how desperate the right wing is getting in the face of President Obama’s inevitable victory.
By D
July 8, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
You do realize that Abraham Lincoln was the first candidate to be elected as a REPUBLICAN republican, don’t you? Up until that point, Republicans were referred to as Democratic Republicans, the Party of Thomas Jefferson. But Democrats still insist that TJ was a democrat, eventhough the Democratic Republican party was for small federal government.
By Satan's Right Hand man
July 8, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Barack Hussein Osama err Obama is the anti-christ. His quick rise to power is amazing to me. That and how his supporters worship him like a god is very disturbing. The sad thing about this blog and any other discussion about this presidential race is that all it deals with is race. If anyone criticizes theif false idol, Obama, they pull out the race card no matter what. It is pretty sad but what else do you expect from people that are not self-reliant and depend solely on the government. Democrats, keep thinking Obama/Osama has your free handouts. Democrats are the real morons.
Be forewarned, if Satan’s son is elected, rest assured his tenure as president will be a rather hot one.
By Will Jones
July 8, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
The “Republican” party of Lincoln was the re-worked and falsely named “Whig” party of the 1830’s and ‘40’s which had usurped the name of Our Founders’ party to destroy the values of our founding. The influx of Roman Catholic cheap labor provided their base and they assassinated President Lincoln as soon as he showed his true American colors by ordering Grant to treat the defeated South so humanely at Appomattox.
Booth’s hit-team of Roman Catholics assassinated him six days after Lee’s surrender.
www.theamericanfundament.blogspot.com
By a
July 8, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
The people deserve obama, the taxpayers do not.
By bigred
July 8, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
Question Jay:Just how is it that Obama proposes to get YOU cheaper gas?Is Michelle going to go to the Middle East and “knuckle” everyone and make everything “ALLGOOD”?Give out gas cards as well as FOOD DEBIT CARDS to everyone?One of the GREAT ALBATROSSES President Clinton hung on us and a lot of people forget,was NAFTA!(yes,the economy was great and unemployment the lowest in history)but for how long after NAFTA was passed?All the jobs have gone outside the country because of his legacy!Every presidency has to spend at least 2 years straightening up after his predecessor.American companies are given all kinds of incentives to open branches in countries other than the U.S.and other countries are given all kinds of incentives to open branches here.What is wrong with this picture?FREE TRADE my A*!Nothing in this life is FREE but sometimes it is too late once we figure that out!When GM is talking bankruptcy I think that ship has sailed!
By Sha NayNAy
July 8, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this
Obama is my Messiah. Obama will bring change. He is very changeable. His will not leave us unchanged. Change is good. I hope for change. Obama is hope. I hope that Obama will bring change. Change is the hope of the future. It is cool to change.