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DEL.ICIO.USOn the Senate runoff: Watching paint dry, and the Ox says he won’t graze while Chambliss needs the cash
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The gap between U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and his goal of 50-percent-plus-one grew by five votes overnight. We don’t know how, and we don’t know why.
But at the end of office hours on Wednesday, the Republican needed 8,193 more votes to stay out of a runoff with Democrat Jim Martin. This morning, he needs 8,198.
Here’s the link to results on the secretary of state’s web site.
Also, so as not to compete with Chambliss, state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has directed his Republican campaign to “cease all Georgia-based fund-raising of new campaign dollars” in his 2010 race for governor until after the Dec. 2 runoff for U.S. Senate.
And he invited Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, another Republican candidate for governor, to do the same.
“Additionally, I will reach out to all of my maxed out contributors and urge them to contribute to Saxby’s campaign,” Oxendine said. “I know that suspending fund-raising on new Georgia dollars is the appropriate and moral position to take and I do so with humility, confidence, and pride.”
Possibly, this comes in response to a notation in this space on Wednesday.
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By rukidding
November 6, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Wow, nice way to cover up a lack of ability to raise $$$$. Should make for good spin come January when the disclosures come out.
By Sissy Saxby
November 6, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
The lobbyists who finance Sissy Saxby have no choice but to pony up again. If he loses, who will vote for the next Wall Street Bailout?
By Drafted Vet
November 6, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
John McCain criticized Chambliss’ 2002 race against Max Cleland.
“I’ve never seen anything like that ad,” says McCain. “Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield — it’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”” (Washington Post, 7/3/2003)
By John Army Volunteer
November 6, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
For Drafted Vet, Actually Mr. Cleland pulled the pin on the grenade that took his limbs off. Sure his limbs fell on a battlefield but it was purely a self inflicted and accidental wounding—nothing heroic there. McCain has a problem with knowing who his real friends are… often they are really his enemy—and conservative America’s enemy.
By John Army Volunteer
November 6, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
For Drafted Vet, Actually Mr. Cleland pulled the pin on the grenade that took his limbs off. Sure his limbs fell on a battlefield but it was purely a self inflicted and accidental wounding—nothing heroic there. McCain has a problem with knowing who his real friends are… often they are really his enemy—and conservative America’s enemy.
By David
November 7, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this
Democrats are in a blood-lust. Relax everyone. Saxby will win 65% to 35% without all the brainwashed Obama voters at the poll just clicking the guy with a “D” next to his name.
By Saxby The Socialist
November 7, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
I agree with Tom Becker: It’s Max’ own fault he got injured. If Max were smart like me, he would have found a way to get out of serving in Vietnam and would have never gotten hurt.
By Harvey
November 7, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
Wrong-o, Max did not pull the pin on the grenade. When combat was likely, we’d straighten out the pins, which are like cotter pins, to make them easier to pull when you’re in a bind. The grenades were hung from our web gear by the handles. That’s about as safe as riding a motorcycle without a helmet, but, hey, were were getting shot at. For years Max thought the pin on one of his grenades had gotten caught on something and slipped out. I think that it came to light in the last couple of years that it was another guy’s grenade that happened to, not Max’. Regardless, straightening pins was a common practice, and how anyone can dismiss the wounds a Special Forces soldier received in a combat situation is totally beyond me. You have to have no human feelings at all.
By Tom Becker
November 7, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Wrong Harvey. Accidents in war account for a large percentage of casualties. A protocol should have evolved about hand grenades that would have prevented cleland’s injuries.
If you see a grenade on the ground alert others to hit the deck. Dont touch it.
It’s just an oversight, a tragic blunder of training that caused cleland’s injuries. War. Of course. War. No rules. You’re probably going to become a casualty. Some wont. some have an amazing immunity to becoming a casualty. It’s a sick lottery. But grenades were a common part of the action. A good general would have made sure of procedural priorities for the grunts when exiting a chopper in a hot landing zone. Dont touch rogue grenades ever. just dont.
the whole thing makes me sick. The army needed me, in 1969, but because my dad was air force, and he was in ‘Nam, he forbade me to join the army, which I was begging for permission to join, but he said that one fighter in the family was enough. He didn’t want to do that to his wife, my mother.
I woulda spotted that flaw, because it’s the way I think. I observe everything with a paranoid murphy’s law overview. I just do. I woulda brought it up. Grenades on the ground are death.
I mean. look at it yourself. How can a grenade get on the ground unless it’s thrown there? or falls there? or what? Someone decided that he’d just lay the grenade down cause it’s too heavy? no, if you see a grenade on the ground, that means something went wrong.
it’s a tragedy, and I hope that Max Cleland fixes the oversight in the training of our troops.