NPR this morning - Chambliss: Whole world was hoping for him to win

[Doctor_J]

They also had some voter on who declared "The founding father saw separation of powers as the cornerstone of democracy". The intrepid interviewer neglected to ask him if he voted for Dem reps and Senators in 2002, 2002, 2004, 2006 to ensure that the branches were balanced.

The GA electorate is, on average, very, very ignorant, corrupt, or (likely) brainwashed.

[Ian David]

1. Fuck Georgia and their fucking peaches. n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

3. As a Georgian

I pretty much agree with this in the present tense.

However, demographics are such that the state won't stay red/conservative for more than another election cycle or two at the most.

[Ian David]

4. Keep pushing your state toward the left.

I'd suggest purchasing real estate, building condo complexes, and advertising your property only in The Advocate and The Nation.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. Dunno, the AJC is useful too

It's got Mike Luckovich, Jay Bookman, and Cynthia Tucker all driving the local knuckle-draggers absolutely apeshit crazy, after all.

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. And you have Mike Malloy

Perhaps the greatest Georgia Democrat since James Earl Carter. And much louder!

[onehandle]

5. I hope you're right, but the Neil Boortz/Rush crowd sure are calling the shots here at the moment.

Let them move to Tennessee and Arkansas.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Nah, they can stay, and be overwhelmed.

It only seems that Boortz and his stupid Fair(y Tale) Tax cult are a majority. They're not; once

a) the transplants are settled in, raising families, really caring about issues and registering to vote in percentages equal to the "natives",

and

b) the undocumented immigrants' kids born here come of age and vote

the Boortz idiots will be an unpleasant memory as a voting bloc of note.

[Claire Beth]

14. Hey, we don't need anymore in Tennessee....

I hope Tennessee will turn blue one day. sigh

:dem:

[Kalyke]

15. Nooooooooooooo!

I'm sickened that my state is in such shambles.

Please, we need MORE liberals to move to Tennessee and Arkansas!! We need progressive talk radio and progressive newspapers.

Heck, it would be nice if we actually had a decent Democrat to challenge some of these people. I can't think of one who could run for a statewide office and win or be close. Isn't that the pits?

So, please, liberals, move to Tennessee to help turn it blue. It's a beautiful state, moderate weather, low taxes, low cost of living and we actually have jobs.

PLEASE!

[Lasher]

6. I appreciate good red state Democrats.

My state is not actually red, since our Governor and all but one of our Congressional delegation are Democrats. And Democrats control the state legislature. But our electoral votes have gone to Republican presidential candidates the last 3 times, so I can relate to what you go through.

For inspiration I sometimes reflect on successes in Virginia. I want to be just like them when I grow up.

[Beacool]

20. Hey, what did the peaches ever do to you?

:shrug:

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Some of these same folks (maybe) were interviewed 11/4/08 by NPR...

they compared their loss to "another 9/11."

It's always about them, isn't it?

[eShirl]

7. what whole world, Bizarro Earth?

[Frances]

8. I was born and raised in the neighboring state of Alabama

and I got really depressed when I learned that two of my Alabama friends were for McCain.

BUT the good news is that Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, graduated from Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama! And my misguided McCain supporter from Auburn says that everyone in town is very excited about Gibbs' appointment.

[elocs]

11. It always amuses me to read here at DU how those who do not vote as we want them to vote

are ignorant, corrupt, or brainwashed. Yeah, everyone who voted for Chambliss is a red-necked, card carrying Klan member. I'm sure that attitude will help to win over and convince more Georgians to vote Democratic. It makes me wonder who it is that is truly ignorant here at DU where hyperbole reigns.

[AndrewP]

12. The whole Klan maybe

[RubyDuby in GA]

13. Sorry - I don't consider myself to be "very, very ignorant, corrupt, or (likely) brainwashed"

but thanks for playing.

Nothing like a little salt in a fresh wound to remind us ignorant, corrupt and brainwashed bubbas down here who our friends and allies are...
It must be so wonderful living in the blue paradise of Michigan.

[Doctor_J]

23. Since the lying, corrupt chickenhawk won confortably, my ACTUAL statement

that the GA voters are on the average under the spell of hate radio or general lack of enlightenment is nearly indisputable. I am glad you're not one of them , and I most certainly did not say that you are.

[CitizenPatriot]

28. faulty assumption

bad logic, but I don't blame you for it since you aren't here. It isn't a matter of hate radio (though that is never helpful and it contributes). We had proven election fraud when Chambliss got elected the first time, complete with a whistle blower, a vote switching device found in Dem areas on the Diebold machines which were tampered with after being certified, and a GOP security operative who confirmed that the votes were switched exactly and that is why the vote was the opposite of the exit polls.

we had 200,00 voters purged this year against a judge's orders. Does anyone on this forum give a shit???? NO, they'd rather chalk it up to redneck losers and go on their merry way. Gee, I used to live in Michigan. We have our fair share of redneck losers there, too... You had massive election fraud TRYING to occur, but the Obama attorneys stopped the GOP from disenfranchising the people who had moved recently. Here, we weren't so lucky. If the GOP had won the right to challenge voters at the polls who had moved recently, Michigan would not have been blue nearly so easily and then...it, too, could have been stolen.

GA was the Ohio and Florida of 2008.

There are very complex issues going on here, which I posted about in another thread. If anyone really wants to learn instead of glorify dogma with mis-informed opinion, help yourself:

Until you've lived here and seen the real issues, please don't say shame on them.

As I posted up thread, the state is chock full of super poor people, many of them African American, who have been disenfranchised for a LONG time. When I was out registering voters, I talked to people who shared one broken down car among a family of 6 and watched as it fell apart in front of my eyes. The tears in their eyes were devastating. Lazy and unmotivated? NO. Living in poverty with no way out, going to a job that barely pays the rent every month and taking the bus to get there, then waiting in 8 hour lines and risking getting fired to vote, being harassed at the polls (YES, we went to counties where white business owners hung out to see if any black people came out to vote and then they harassed them with threats of their jobs, etc) JUST so they could cast a vote for history. They cared.

They bothered to take the bus down to the fucking driver's license office to get a driver's lic or voter ID card. then, their name might be spelled wrong so they had to go back. Yes, I saw this all of the time. Folks without internet, without phone! SO they took the bus back and lost more time from work. All so they could vote for Obama.

To say they didn't care and are lazy or shame on them is really horrible. Please don't say such things until you've looked into the eyes of a person who has fought all of their life just to keep a roof over their head and been treated like dirt all the while. People here are scared, too.

Be kind to GA Dems. Some of us had our lives threatened working on this campaign.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Missed that segment this AM, but...

did NPR say Georgia voters are redneck assholes or is that just something you added?

[n2doc]

17. Sorry, but it was lazy dems who are at fault

We had a 35% turnout. The reason Chambliss won, and won with a bigger margin than during the general election, is that a great number of voters who turned out to vote for Obama couldn't be bothered to get off of their sorry asses and vote again. Enough Repubs certainly did.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/us/politics/03georgia.html


A little more than two million people voted in the runoff, compared with 3.7 million on Nov. 4. In heavily black Clayton County, just south of Atlanta, Mr. Martin’s vote was less than half what it was in the earlier election. Only 9.2 percent of registered Georgians cast early votes in the runoff, compared with 36 percent in the general election.

[LeftishBrit]

18. The whole *world* was hoping for Chambliss to win???

(1) Most people in the world haven't heard of Chambliss. I hadn't till this election came up, and I follow American politics more than most non-Americans do.

(2) Once you have heard of Chambliss, he is a nasty nutcase, and no one in their right mind would want him to win anything at all, even a toy at a fair!

[Sebastian Doyle]

32. He didn't say which "whole world".

Hell is considered a "world", isn't it? :evilgrin:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. LOL, who said "the whole world was hoping for Chambliss to win"?

[Doctor_J]

22. The Senator himself

or hisself, as he probably terms it. "The entire country and entire world was keeping an eye on this election to see if we would have one-party government" or some such whopper.

[WI_DEM]

21. the outcome of this election was not surprising especially without Obama on the ballot

to help bring the voters out.

[Doctor_J]

24. Yes, they said that turnout was down compared to 11/4

this is not a surprise in the least.

[Shakespeare]

25. Memo to Chambliss: Get over yourself, you miserable fucking shitstain.

Still think your boys will be able to rally all 41 senators for a filibuster? Dream on.

Oh, and we can dangle the threat of the so-called nuclear option, just like you asswipes did when you controlled the Senate. Ain't payback a bitch?

[mvd]

26. Um

:puke:

What world is that? The insane part?

[polichick]

27. LOL - he WISHES!

[Hieronymus]

29. My God, do you suppose a few wingnut repubs believed that the world

was cheering for Chambliss?
As far as I can tell, the world is ecstatic to have a new Democratic President of the United States.

[CitizenPatriot]

31. yes, it's true - even the Republicans in GA hate Chambliss

so he is living in Palin land with his dreams of glory.

he is being questioned right now for ethics violations which caused the deaths of many people.

LTTE here begged conservatives to vote for him even though he's a jerk.

FEAR brought them out to the polls. FEAR of liberals taking over the world. That was the subject of their ads, their robo calls, and Palin's barbie trip of hate.

[izzybeans]

33. Kennesaw mountain feels like the whole world to some, I suppose.