Month: October 2009
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‘The Battle for Georgia’ the movie!
Who knew they were making a movie! ‘The Battle for Georgia’ takes us on an eye-opening journey to the rural south in the final weeks of the 2008 Presidential election. Intimately exploring the politics of small town Georgia, the film follows a small team of local volunteers fighting to elect an African-American Democrat in a…
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It’s all bad
The reviews are in and as you would have expected, the conservate pundits and the Beltway wise men are all in agreement: winning the Nobel Peace Prize was bad for Barack Obama and will inflict fatal damage on his presidency.
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Why Is It Always in Georgia?
Dang it, Georgians, would you quit it with acting like your stereotype already? Haven’t we already suffered enough jokes about our backwards ways? When you walk into the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, you feel like you’ve walked into a different era. Behind the pool tables stands a mannequin in a Klu Klux…
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Those sex-lovin’ senators
Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota has demonstrated this week why he is so irritating to the pundits on talk radio and other conservative fronts. The newbie senator introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they “restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.”
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Raw Deal
Full credit goes to my friend and colleague Jim Galloway for being the first to post this video of U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal ranting about “ghetto grandmothers” during a political breakfast in Cherokee County (the video clip can be viewed here).
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Women at the Table of Power conference – Day 2
7:30 am: Oh My do these women folk start conferencing early. I sooo need a nap already. 7:35 am: State Senator Vivian Davis Figures (Alabama) is speaking about women challenging incumbents so we can stop giving seats away just because of historical patterns. Senator Figures challend US Senator Jeff Sessoms because of his lack of…