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Chambliss: Obama Better Show Humility In Speech To Congress
Rachel Slajda | September 8, 2009, 4:40PM
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said today that, because of angry town hallers and the like, President Obama should show "humility" when he speaks to Congress Wednesday night.
"What you're seeing is folks on my side anxious to see what the president has to say tomorrow night," Chambliss said. "I think he's gonna have to express some humility based on what we've seen around the country this August and that's not his inclination."
The implication here is that Chambliss's side -- the one that opposes much of the Democrats' reform plan, especially a public option -- is winning, and that the president had better be humble.
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jeevmon
September 8, 2009 5:08 PM
Gee, a white Southerner is telling the black President that he better be "humble" and know his place.
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imdwalrus
September 8, 2009 5:10 PM in reply to jeevmon
Nobody likes an uppity president.
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ttarleton
September 8, 2009 5:20 PM in reply to imdwalrus
Yassa, Massa Chambliss, that Obama boy better be showin' some humility, sho nuff!
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FebM
September 8, 2009 10:28 PM in reply to ttarleton
What???
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dragnet
September 8, 2009 11:29 PM in reply to FebM
Yeah, and I'm guessing Massah Chambliss would also prefer the "boy" not look white Congressman in the eye when shining their boots...
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JNagarya
September 9, 2009 9:42 AM in reply to dragnet
Yo, Chamnbliss: Shut the fuck up: it's YOUR party that was HUMILIATED last November. It's YOU should be eating the humble cow-pie.
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windowpane
September 8, 2009 6:36 PM in reply to jeevmon
....and enter through the back door.
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here
September 8, 2009 7:10 PM in reply to jeevmon
It's going to be a real shock for Chambliss when he finds out the North won the war.
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hollywood
September 9, 2009 1:14 AM in reply to here
Actually the South is winning right now and never forget the war is far from over. The actual shooting stopped a long time ago but the trench warfare politics is just about as hot as ever. I would be happy if someday the fascist religious South would go their own way back to the Dark Ages and the progressive rest of us could get on with decent and productive lives. We waste so damned much time arguing and compromising with these fucking morons.
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foodchain11
September 9, 2009 8:57 AM in reply to hollywood
you've got that right! They didn't like "losing" then and they've never stopped trying to get even. Get rid of them.
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Dorn76
September 9, 2009 9:45 AM in reply to hollywood
Paint with your broad brush elsewhere. I'm sure there's not one racist moron in sunny California.
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JNagarya
September 9, 2009 12:15 PM in reply to Dorn76
There are rcist morons in every state. As to percentage, I doubt one can determine that: it may only be that Southern racists are proud and boastful of it so it only appears there are more in the South.
Then again, there is that little Civil War thing, resulting from secessions based upon the effort to preserve slavery.
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AmericanDad
September 9, 2009 10:37 AM in reply to hollywood
The South is winning? Is that why we have a black president despite their best efforts? Is that why the party that's most popular there is no longer a national party, but has withered to a regional party that lost the White House and Congress?
Reminds me of a comedian I saw once relate a story about performing in the South. In the middle of his stand up routine, some guy in the back jumped up and shouted "Whooooo-weee! The South will do it again!"
The comic asked, "Do what? Fight a war to enslave people or start a war and lose?"
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714Day
September 8, 2009 7:28 PM in reply to jeevmon
Every closet racist I know has spoken of how "cocky" Obama is, or how he "swaggers" when he walks. They hold themselves to be incredibly subtle and not at all bigoted in their thinking. They are not wildly skilled with self-examination.
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BluGrass
September 8, 2009 9:05 PM in reply to jeevmon
"These high-yaller nigras jes' git so full of themselves don't you know. Th' boah needs takin' down a peg."
God save us from sanctimonious Georgians.
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oleeb
September 9, 2009 12:32 AM in reply to jeevmon
I have to ask just what is Chamliss gonna do about it if the President is humble enough for his cracker ass? Will he then refuse to support the healthcare reform bill? Oh gee, what a loss that will be since he's against anything that even smells of reform. Fuck Chambliss. Racist dishonorable prick.
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linnylinder
September 8, 2009 5:16 PM
I can't even bring myself to write what I'm thinking. I'm sure the senator couldn't even imagine how that could sound racist.
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merlot
September 8, 2009 5:40 PM in reply to linnylinder
He knew & knows exactly how it sounds and it was clearly his intent.
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stillidealistic
September 8, 2009 7:24 PM in reply to linnylinder
Are you kidding me? Of course he does, and he doesn't care.
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fbacon2
September 8, 2009 5:18 PM
Ah! Express some humility based on what we've seen around the country since August. Yup, Saxby, those teabaggers will bring Obama to his knees. You betcha!
What a pig this guy is, was, and always shall be.
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AJM
September 9, 2009 7:37 AM in reply to fbacon2
Yup. Let's have a President bowing and scraping to a panic brought on by the Fox news company spreading false information and acting like a political party. That's just the type of leadership we want.
Sen. Chambliss is the one who needs to show some humility. It might also help if he went back home and started telling his constituents the truth.
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AJM
September 9, 2009 7:39 AM in reply to fbacon2
Yup. Let's have a President bowing and scraping to a panic brought on by the Fox news company spreading false information and acting like a political party. That's just the type of leadership we want.
Sen. Chambliss is the one who needs to show some humility. It might also help if he went back home and started telling his constituents the truth.
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tweakyd
September 8, 2009 5:19 PM
But... they are winning - Dems and Obama are folding like a cheap tent and getting played by the MSM and Republicans
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manyamile
September 8, 2009 5:25 PM in reply to tweakyd
says who?
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manyamile
September 8, 2009 5:26 PM in reply to tweakyd
says who?
the MSM?
nuff said
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hewhohasnoname
September 8, 2009 5:40 PM in reply to tweakyd
If anyone should be showing humility, it should be the Republicans. They and their industry friends pulled out all the scare tactics that they could during August. But, guess what? According to polls (see Gallup's most recent), opinions on healthcare have changed little (technically, the "change" is nonexistent; it's statistically insignificant).
Certainly, Democrats would love to see overwhelming support for their bills. But, when it comes to such a controversial issue, overwhelming support is not likely, especially when people don't fully understand everything in the bills [Democrats fell short in explaining.]. Nevertheless, the public is still strongly supportive of reform.
Politically, Democrats should forcefully press full steam ahead, and force the Republicans to take the politically perilous position of voting against a bill that would do things like keep a cancer patient from losing her care or an unemployed man from having to go without healthcare.
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hewhohasnoname
September 8, 2009 5:42 PM in reply to hewhohasnoname
This was meant to be a new post, not a reply to the post above.
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 6:24 PM in reply to hewhohasnoname
But it's the GOP looking glass world where everything is the opposite of what it seems. Rove accuses Obama of politicizing everything after Rove politicized everything when he was Bush's Brain.
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arias
September 8, 2009 5:41 PM in reply to tweakyd
And tools like you are cutting that fictitious narrative out of whole cloth and believing it despite there being no evidence to support it.
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tweakyd
September 8, 2009 6:10 PM in reply to arias
I may be a tool, but not for the reason you state. BO & the Dems have backed off the public option, backed off of the end-of-life counseling, and usually, but not always let the Repubs outrageous lies go unanswered.
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lousgirl84
September 8, 2009 6:36 PM in reply to tweakyd
Are you really as ugly as your picture? If so, get a new one so we don't have to turn our heads
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 6:49 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Stop it. That's totally uncalled for and unneccessary. And BTW, it's a picture of Kent Dorfman from Animal House.
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tweakyd
September 8, 2009 6:55 PM in reply to twoviragos
I prefer Flounder
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 6:58 PM in reply to tweakyd
Sorry; I couldn't remember the nick name ;).
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 8, 2009 7:42 PM in reply to twoviragos
"Oh Belvadeah, fetch me a dawg whistle. A numbah two medium, I believe."
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 8, 2009 8:30 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Doh! No idea how the hell this ended up here.
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 10:15 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Hey, I was trying to roll with it. I think we are all heading towards the deep end. I hope to god we can swim!
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Col_Mandrake
September 9, 2009 1:53 AM in reply to twoviragos
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
Not heeding the dean's advice, Flounder ended up in the Senate.
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Dorn76
September 9, 2009 9:46 AM in reply to lousgirl84
Clueless.
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oleeb
September 9, 2009 12:35 AM in reply to tweakyd
You're certainly right about that. All the ass kissing and desperately searching for "bipartisan" compromise was only interpreted by the Republicans as weakness and it turns out they are right. I can't abide the racist Republican swine, but Obama and the Democrats have been so timorous and submissive it's just embarassing.
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Deep Brain Diarist
September 8, 2009 5:20 PM
Yassuh, Massuh Chambliss, suh! Yo' Republicans SHO' doan wan' no uppity you-no-what wif an ATTITUDE comin' up theyah to talk at you all like you is EQUALS or nuthin'! Shuckin's! He bettah know his puh-LAYCE iffn' y'all know whut I mean.
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ttarleton
September 8, 2009 5:26 PM in reply to Deep Brain Diarist
You say Massuh, I say Massa (see my comment above), but we both said it simultaneously at 5:20! More proof that Chambliss' true meaning is not so hidden after all.
Maybe this turdbrain throwback yahoo can be Secretary of Southern Language in the President Perry administration when Texas finally secedes.
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acamus
September 8, 2009 5:47 PM in reply to Deep Brain Diarist
Yup, aint no racism in them thar Republicans.
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 8:22 PM in reply to Deep Brain Diarist
An' he bettah git off the sidewalk when he sees a white man comin', an' he bettah not eyeball any white wimmen neither.
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ctal
September 8, 2009 5:21 PM
Ya that BOY better not get uppity.
How about you shove your 'humility' up your fat, racist ass Chambliss? Hmm? :)
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manyamile
September 8, 2009 5:24 PM
how nauseating.
also i am having flashbacks of George W Bush proclaiming arrogantly that he had earned a whole bunch of political capital and by gawd he was gonna spend it!
now there's humility for you....
Saxb, oh self appointed humility police, where were you when we needed you?
oh that's right, W is white.
how thoroughly, disgustingly, transparently racist of Saxby.
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GTFOOH
September 8, 2009 5:25 PM
He won't be showing up with his supporters carrying guns. That's about all the humility those *@#$&%! are entitled to!
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Savannah Evans
September 8, 2009 5:25 PM
Hey Saxby, I got one word for ya:
SCOREBOARD, mo fo.
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Larry Geater
September 8, 2009 5:25 PM
I am about tired of the humble Obama and hope that this comment brings out the selfrightous Obama.
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Stiggs
September 8, 2009 7:08 PM in reply to Larry Geater
I'm not sure if that's Obama's role. I think it's Biden's time to step up and start telling people like this off. Maybe do it in a "gaff" stylized format.
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jdb316
September 8, 2009 8:29 PM in reply to Stiggs
Be careful about wishing Biden to speak. We've already seen what he can do with his gaffes. The last thing Obama needs now is Mr. Loose Lips going off message and giving Obama's opponents even more to work with.
I do agree though that Obama needs to be more forceful. I'm thinking of something like the scene towards the end of the movie "The American President," where Michael Douglas goes in front of the press, calls out his opponents and reminds everyone that he is the President. Screw "humility" - we've seen the last couple of months where that's gotten him. Obama needs to lay out who he is and what he stands for here with utmost clarity and authority.
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Larry Geater
September 9, 2009 8:54 AM in reply to Stiggs
He could give a positive message about the need for honesty and civility in public debate and point out some of the lies that have been spread on the right. No need to call out legislators. He could simply call out the lies of conservative opinion makers.
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JNagarya
September 9, 2009 9:53 AM in reply to Larry Geater
He has been calling them out. And he's been calling them lies.
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Larry Geater
September 9, 2009 12:24 PM in reply to JNagarya
But he has been dismissing the lies as 'silly'. He needs to point out how corosive they are.
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eve cairo
September 8, 2009 5:26 PM
As disgusting as this is, this plays like illegal carolina firecrackers for the locals. They know the code words and will eat this up.
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izzatxeaux
September 8, 2009 5:35 PM in reply to eve cairo
and in my perfect world, the President would bring the Full Mandingo tomorrow night ...
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kaylaspop
September 8, 2009 5:28 PM
This from the jerk who Called Max Cleland a coward. White trash southerner!
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Kevin Cassidy
September 8, 2009 7:13 PM in reply to kaylaspop
I think it is important to maintain a civil tone and proceed with reasoned, measured argument in dealing with the extreme right. But the truth is, Saxby Chambliss should go back to humping Karl Rove's leg.
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 7:18 PM in reply to Kevin Cassidy
I want to maintain a civil tone, but I have to tell you I'm a woman on the edge and I'm sick and tired of this right wing nonsense and don't know if I have it in me anymore to respond in a civil manner. The problem is, I don't know if it makes a difference. Respond civilly, respond like a fish wife, it just doesn't seem to stop the behavior or even make them realize the behavior is wrong.
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stillidealistic
September 8, 2009 7:23 PM in reply to Kevin Cassidy
LOVE the visual!
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bluesplashy
September 8, 2009 7:32 PM in reply to stillidealistic
Yeah, me too! That is so good KC, I'll be laughing next week. What comes up in my visual is the look on Rove's face (he's enjoying it!)
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Dilapidus
September 8, 2009 7:54 PM in reply to Kevin Cassidy
Oh baby! That was funny.. very very funny.
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 8:25 PM in reply to kaylaspop
And won the election with the lies. Didn't Bush stump for him in 2004?
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impik
September 8, 2009 5:29 PM
Yep. This black whats-his-name better be remember his place.
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par4
September 8, 2009 5:36 PM
That draft-dodger shouldn't even be in the Senate.It just shows how far the south has fallen.
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foodchain11
September 8, 2009 5:37 PM
I was so angry when I read the headline that I was going to yell about how "humble" the GOP has been. But you guys are great! I love these comments. And I think Obama has been too kind. Children (GOP) parallel play when very young but should grow out of it and learn to play well with others. The GOP has never learned to play well with others. They need a time out!
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tobyv29
September 8, 2009 5:37 PM
Fuck Saxby Chambliss.
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Overreach THIS!
September 8, 2009 9:39 PM in reply to tobyv29
He need to come in through the colored door and drink through an ole-style separate drinkin fountain, dass what ole Saxby want!
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merlot
September 8, 2009 5:38 PM
Someone needs to tell Sen "KKK" Chambliss that Jim Crow days are over.
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 6:28 PM in reply to merlot
Unfortunately, the voters in his district won't.
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Grits
September 8, 2009 9:08 PM in reply to jeffgee
I beg your pardon, but this TPM reader and thousands of other Georgians almost threw Chambliss out of office last fall. We came close. So watch yo' mouth, jeffgee. You never know who you're insulting.
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AJM
September 9, 2009 7:49 AM in reply to Grits
This gives me hope. Keep up the good work and do it next time.
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Rich in NJ
September 8, 2009 5:40 PM
From the lowlife that smeared Max Cleland's heroic war recod.
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pixeloony
September 8, 2009 5:40 PM
Hey, boy, big Texas senator Chambliss wants you show some humility at the Congress, boy.
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Larry Geater
September 8, 2009 5:43 PM in reply to pixeloony
GA not TX
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pixeloony
September 8, 2009 5:53 PM in reply to Larry Geater
Right. He does look a lot like Cornyn:
http://tinyurl.com/nl8et8
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 6:51 PM in reply to Larry Geater
The difference being?
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pixeloony
September 9, 2009 11:26 AM in reply to twoviragos
GA, not TX, sorta
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Stepanian
September 8, 2009 5:45 PM
One can take the "man" out of the Klan, but one can't take the Klan out of the man.
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 5:53 PM in reply to Stepanian
Is he out of the Klan?
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GayIthacan
September 8, 2009 5:47 PM
Were I Obama, I would be telling them that "...unless a Health Care Bill that covers ALL Americans is passed by these 2 chambers, I will have leadership order the Sergeant at Arms lock you in this building - over the holidays if necessary - until you pass one. And if you think I cannot or will not do it, TRY ME!"
That's what LBJ would do. But then, he knew how to get things done. At least domestically.
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nellieh
September 8, 2009 5:48 PM
Obama should show up with a black bowler imitating Step 'n Fetchit. Then ask Chambliss if it is humble enough for him. Actually I would rather the President tell Chambliss to go f@%k himself. It worked for Cheney in the Senate. One thing having a black President brings out is the overt racism of the southern and western Republican politicans. They don't even try to hide it anymore. I guess somebody has to carry Jesse Helm's and Strom Thurmond's water.
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PatrickJKiger
September 8, 2009 5:59 PM
It really doesn't matter what Chambliss thinks, does it? Obama doesn't need his vote.
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Brainpicnic
September 8, 2009 6:04 PM
Where's General Sherman when you need him.
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Dorn76
September 9, 2009 9:47 AM in reply to Brainpicnic
That's funny.
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Andreams
September 8, 2009 6:05 PM
Saxby wouldn't recognize humility if it hit him in the face.
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sbv
September 8, 2009 6:05 PM
that's rich coming from a southern, white, arrogant, republican racist!
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ru4862
September 8, 2009 6:10 PM
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor once again, rears his racist, ugly, receding hairline head.
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twirling fartknocker
September 8, 2009 6:16 PM
beyond the supreme racist asshole-yness of that statement, please tell me when has Obama ever spoken withOUT humility?
even when Obama could pile-drive opponents, he has shown graciousness, far more grace than this shit from Georgia has ever shown despite Saxby's false belief that he operates with some sort of southern charm or gentlemanliness
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Nowukkers
September 8, 2009 6:17 PM
Rectal cancer's too good for that as$&ole Chambers
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 6:20 PM
And the GOP Propaganda channel is only too happy to give him a megaphone.
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The Old Grouch
September 8, 2009 6:26 PM
I'm thinking, right about now, that Gen. Sherman was a little bit too kind to GA way back when.
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lousgirl84
September 8, 2009 6:34 PM
Fuck you Chambliss!!!
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windowpane
September 8, 2009 6:35 PM
He forgot to mention that President Obama must enter by the back door.
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henk
September 8, 2009 6:36 PM
Obama walks a fine line, or so his handlers think, between coming off a an agressive speaker or an angry black man. I don't think its that bad but, Republicans and their media cohorts will be on the angry black man like ducks on a june bug. This is Chambliss's way of reminding Obama of that. Its a form of smack talk before a game or a boxing match. He hopes it psychs Obama a bit.
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 8:27 PM in reply to henk
Rush says every day that the Obamas are angry.
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CranialRectalLoopback
September 8, 2009 6:40 PM
Hey Chambliss, you cowardly pussy. Go fuck yourself.
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Grackle
September 8, 2009 6:44 PM
Gawd, these people like Chambliss piss me off.
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johnmccsf
September 8, 2009 6:45 PM
You feel me boy?
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
September 8, 2009 6:47 PM
From Wiki.....
in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, Chambliss received five student deferments while attending the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee College of Law and was also given a medical deferment (1-Y) for bad knees due to a football injury.[2]
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
September 8, 2009 6:52 PM in reply to Armageddon T. Thunderbird
Quote "Max Cleland says he has the courage to lead. But the record proves Max Cleland is just misleading." (Campaign ad questioning patriotism of Democratic opponent Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.)
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
September 8, 2009 6:54 PM in reply to Armageddon T. Thunderbird
Neil Young's true "Southern Man"
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31tudor
September 8, 2009 6:51 PM
Why the fuck do we care at ALL about Republicans? Republicans dont give a fuck about anything but other Republicans,PERIOD! It's time to forget their sad asses.
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CogitoSoup
September 8, 2009 6:56 PM
It disgusts me to be "represented" by this trash.
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Maritza
September 8, 2009 6:56 PM
So the black guy has to bow down?
BULLSHIT.
Obama will go up there and give a rousing speech to rally Americans and Democrats for Health care reform.
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BurningFeet
September 8, 2009 6:56 PM
Saxby, to paraphrase George Wallace, is a moran today, a moran tomorrow, and a moran forevah!
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dickday
September 8, 2009 6:56 PM
Let me think. I am attempting to fine the right words, the correct phrase....oh yeah
FUCK YOU SAXBY.
While we are on the subject, what in God's name is a saxby?
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twoviragos
September 8, 2009 7:21 PM in reply to dickday
Uh Oh. When our gentleman Dick Day starts to lose it, we are all in trouble. Hang in there, my man, we count on your to keep us on this side of civility.
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greylox
September 8, 2009 7:52 PM in reply to dickday
**You ask:
While we are on the subject, what in God's name is a saxby?
Ans: It's the southern version of a dingleberry, almost always attached cloyingly to the larger version of the common American asshole.
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dickday
September 8, 2009 7:57 PM in reply to greylox
heheheheheh
Best comment here
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mc mark
September 8, 2009 7:01 PM
^^^ Yep!
Deadeye Dick would approve
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mc mark
September 8, 2009 7:32 PM in reply to mc mark
remember to say sir.
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pegnj
September 8, 2009 7:04 PM
Be humble, know your place AND
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pegnj
September 8, 2009 7:05 PM
Be humble, know your place AND stay away from our children.
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mk3872
September 8, 2009 7:06 PM
Lovely. A southern hick who defeated his Democractic opponent, who happened to be war veteran and amputee, by calling him unpatriotic and weak on natl defense. Nice ...
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CranialRectalLoopback
September 8, 2009 7:14 PM
Oh, yeah. That's right. Shameless is from the South. That House N* better show some manners, or he gonna get a whipp'n.
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jhh112
September 8, 2009 7:17 PM
The President should show Saxby Chambliss precisely the same humility that Chambliss showed to his opponent, former Sen. Max Cleland, during his campaign for Senate, when he ran an ad that accused Cleland of supporting terrorist Osama bin Laden. The reader may recall, that in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, Chambliss received five student deferments while attending the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee College of Law and was also given a medical deferment (1-Y) for bad knees due to a football injury. Cleland served in Vietnam and lost two legs and an arm. I thought the Vietnam war was a big mistake, but I certainly don't think that someone who didn't fight in it has any room to call a seriously wounded veteran of such a war, someone who went on to serve his state as a US Senator, a softie. Chambliss represents the very worst of the Old South. Unfortunately, that aligns him with the centre of the GOP. I cannot think of any serving Senator less deserving of respect.
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ru4862
September 8, 2009 7:19 PM
SAXBY TRANSLATION: Know your place BOY!
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lapdogs
September 8, 2009 7:29 PM
Is this the "same" Chambliss who showed such "compassion and humility" towards wheelchair bound Max Cleland, who left his limbs over in Vietnam - by depicting Max Cleland in a campaign ad morphing Max into Osama bin Laden?
That Chris Chambliss? And he wants "humility" from somebody like me?
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jeffgee
September 8, 2009 8:31 PM in reply to lapdogs
Didn't he claim that Cleland lost his limbs on a beer run or something like that?
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Observerinvancouver
September 8, 2009 7:34 PM
Interesting. I realized after reading the comments here that my reaction needed to change from "Chambliss, you're a pig" to "Chambliss, you're a racist pig".
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drmoore
September 8, 2009 7:38 PM
Flat out blatant racist.
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Texar
September 8, 2009 7:48 PM
Sounds more like Jeff Sessions to me. Chambliss knows better than to let his inner "cracker" out for civilians to see.
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toomuchpr
September 8, 2009 8:11 PM
One word. STEAMROLLER.
Dollars to donuts I bet the Obama team has been chomping at the bit all summer to put the full court press into action, but have held back because no one pays attention in August and you never launch a media campaign until after labor day. The other shoe is about to drop on these do nothing obstructionist Republicans who've played right into Obama's hand. They will look like as dumb as the parents and teachers who kept children away from Obama's speech today.
Hey Chambliss, you have 24 hours to smarten up or face Blowback.
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bigmacha
September 8, 2009 8:15 PM
Yessah boss!
I guess Masta CHambliss wants that young negro fella to show show some deference to old those old, southern white men who are feeling nighty threatened these days.
You betcha he wants some deference; perhaps he should have his shoes shined by that young uppity fella - would that make him happy?
Does this old phool expect that POTUS should be kissing his fat ass? I would give anything to smack this turkey upside the head and see if there is anything there.
What an embarrassment.
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bigmacha
September 8, 2009 8:16 PM
Yessah boss!
I guess Masta CHambliss wants that young negro fella to show show some deference to old those old, southern white men who are feeling nighty threatened these days.
You betcha he wants some deference; perhaps he should have his shoes shined by that young uppity fella - would that make him happy?
Does this old phool expect that POTUS should be kissing his fat ass? I would give anything to smack this turkey upside the head and see if there is anything there.
What an embarrassment.
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Joe Monster
September 8, 2009 8:18 PM
Saxby Chambliss, with all due respect, can eat my shit.
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Prefabfan
September 8, 2009 8:27 PM
You gotta respect Chambliss for not saying "that nigra boy" (which he was obviously thinking). Shows a certain restraint. Maybe he should be in restraints.
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bluesplashy
September 8, 2009 8:30 PM
I sent a comment earlier that has landed somewhere else not this thread that Chabliss saying that in public really blew my mind. But while I was waiting for my unfinished comment to show up I realized when I lived in the south I knew people that would say even more racist things in front of people they didn't know. People like that and Chambliss really don't see anything wrong with what they say. So, while it is not mind blowing, it is just plain sickening.
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LBJs Brain
September 8, 2009 8:41 PM
I'm surprised (well, maybe not) by the reflexive charges of racism leveled at Chambliss because of this quote. Does this mean every utterance that sounds or resembles racism is so? Hell, no, but its sooooo easy to say that it is given the races of the speaker and who he's speaking of. If Obama was white (oops, he is half white, in fact) no one would be saying this. What a bore.
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AJM
September 9, 2009 7:59 AM in reply to LBJs Brain
So boring trying to get racism eradicated from people like you. You know as well as the rest of us that black in America was always visually black -- in the South even 1/10 by blood would do.
To this day, if you send out a resume with a name that sounds black you get a much lower response rate. So, no, however boring it may be to you there is a lot of work to do on racism.
Chambliss knew and therefore intended precisely how this would reek of racism. If not, it is high time that he offers an abject apology.
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LBJs Brain
September 9, 2009 10:17 AM in reply to AJM
You are calling me a racist simply because I refuse to adhere to the groupthink here that assumes Chambliss' statement is racist. That's rich. Get a clue.
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AJM
September 9, 2009 1:46 PM in reply to LBJs Brain
i"m calling you a racist or possibly a Pollyanna unable to see anything wrong to believe it is possible that Chambliss of all people could have made that statement while being unaware of the racial overtones given the history of the South.
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LBJs Brain
September 9, 2009 4:09 PM in reply to AJM
Predictably, you insist on calling me a racist and are ready to convict based upon the concept that not everything that may come out of a southern senator's mouth is based on race. So, if he'd said that to Hillary after August's events, he'd be accused of being sexist? Is it not possible that he was referring to only politics?
Hell, he may be a racist but my comments are based solely on what he said for which there is no irrefutable evidence of racism.
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AJM
September 9, 2009 5:31 PM in reply to LBJs Brain
So if Chambliss had called Obama 'boy' I should assume that Chambliss only did this because Obama is a young man and I have no absolute proof of Chambliss's intent?
In the context prolonged history of white men in the South demanding humility from blacks there are certain resonances which cannot be ignored as you seek to do.
If Chambliss had said that there were a lot of people who did not agree with a public option and that Obama should take this into account I would not have had a problem.
Chambliss was indulging in a racist dogwhistle and your inability to see that is what is troubling me.
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branor
September 8, 2009 9:06 PM
The Republican Party has as a significant portion of its base those who are still aggrieved at the loss of affirmative action for white people.
Today's Republicans are largely those who still want the government to give them a leg up and a handout.
They look nostalgically on the old days when the government ensured that they had racial preferences in schools, housing, voting, jobs, and other aspects of society.
The idea that government no longer gives them the racial preferences they had become dependent on for generations is a large source of their rage against government.
Many Republicans are deeply imbued with a sense of entitlement, but now that the racial preferences they depended on for so long have been tamed by the power of the US Constitution, they nurture a childish rage about their sense of abandonment.
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Kuyleh
September 8, 2009 9:33 PM
Sickening. Just fracking sickening.
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Suznaz
September 8, 2009 9:46 PM
What we saw in August was a vocal minority, ginned up to shut down debate with shouted misrepresentations and oft repeated lies. And Chambliss actually think he's in a position to dictate how the President comports himself? Geesh. The Senator could take a lesson from the dignity and grace with which President Obama conducts himself...oh and perhaps Chambliss could try some of that "humility" himself.
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artwrite
September 8, 2009 9:49 PM
Saxby "Jack Abramoff's buddy" Chambliss? Saxby "5 draft deferments" Chambliss? That Saxby Chambliss? This is not a man who should use the word humility.
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xargaw
September 8, 2009 10:04 PM
Just when you have forgotten for moment how vile and repulsive Saxby can be, he reappears to remind you. I have real sympathy for people that live in the South and must endure these GOP racists on a regular basis.
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cowgirl6050
September 8, 2009 10:05 PM
Just because one disagrees with or is in opposition to Obama does not make one racist. Political opposition is a part of America, We must be able to speak our opinions with out the race card being thrown out. Some people look for reasons to scream about racism when none is intended nor shown!!! How can we get past race when some are race baiting???
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AJM
September 9, 2009 8:02 AM in reply to cowgirl6050
Look in the mirror and try saying with a straight face that Chambliss did not know this would reek of racism!
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Minne sconsin
September 9, 2009 8:31 AM in reply to cowgirl6050
Cowgirl, I'm going to give you credit & assume you're not a troll. I don't know how old you are, and I'm truly glad that in your area everyone mingles & racism is dead.
However, not all of the world is there yet. Among those of my parent's age, "Ni**er" is still used freely, in public. Sometimes "our ni**er president". BTW, this is not just a southern thing.
Everyone above a certain age knows what it means when you say a black man, or Latina (Sonia Sotomayor, anyone?), needs to show "humility". It means that they need to know their place, which is below the White Master Race. And back in the good ol' day, if they didn't show "humility", there was some tar, a rope & a tree.
I know it, most people here know it, and Saxby's voters in GA sure as heck know it, at least those over 40.
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LBJs Brain
September 9, 2009 10:40 AM in reply to cowgirl6050
I hear you but good luck trying to get that point across here. Most folks here are apparently ready to convict with out hearing all the evidence. In other words, if it sounds like a racist statement, it must be. Hell, I don't know if Chambliss is or isn't-if he is, he can go to hell, but I'll be damned if I call him that based on just this.
And, predictably, I'm called a racist for not falling in lockstep with the groupthink here.
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The Grand Panjandrum
September 8, 2009 10:11 PM
So Saxby, when did you stop burning crosses on people's lawns?
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Minne sconsin
September 9, 2009 8:32 AM in reply to The Grand Panjandrum
He's stopped?
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seahawk
September 8, 2009 10:12 PM
"Some people look for reasons to scream about racism when none is intended nor shown!!! How can we get past race when some are race baiting??"
Uhhhh...no. I grew up in the South and I still live here. Racism is pretty darn real, sadly. There is still a very ugly, behind closed doors racism here. Do you even know of what you speak?
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cowgirl6050
September 8, 2009 10:24 PM in reply to seahawk
Born and raised in South also. Just went to a jr high football game and kids and adults of all races are equal. There are many interracial couples and we have no black or white side, no burning crosses, we all live side by side and I am auntie to most the kids in the community. My best friend is darker than I but I called her african she would clobber me!! Alot of this idea of the racist south is blown way out of portion by the media, I would challenge any to come to my town and find the idea of southern racism that is being pressed now.
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Verified
September 8, 2009 11:37 PM in reply to seahawk
Totally agree, seahawk. And they are becoming more and more emboldened thanks to the hate mongers on Fox. One of them, a Nazi, verbally assaulted me at the Ingles checkout line today. I'm white and a very average looking middle aged woman. All I was doing was standing in line. It's getting much worse. Sometimes I truly despair.
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csdiego
September 8, 2009 10:25 PM
From here to the trash compactor of history, Saxby. Enjoy the ride, you old sack of shit.
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Bussta Brown
September 8, 2009 10:43 PM
The Prez should smack Chambliss across the kisser with his white gloves.
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Anasazi
September 8, 2009 11:09 PM
For Sen. Chambliss the Civil War was a speed bump in the road of his great white way.
His kind of Georgian has no shame.
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Verified
September 8, 2009 11:31 PM
Sounds like a worst person to me.
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Leftflank
September 8, 2009 11:48 PM
It really is always from the old (read: nearing extinction) white southerners that this trash comes from. They are sucking Obama's dust. They can blow their horns all they like, but, the south will never rise again.
A town in Georgia has found it's idiot!
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Geoff
September 8, 2009 11:52 PM
He should stand up there and get in their face if that's where he's going to do it from. LBJ knew how to get Congress to fall in line when he needed. Sure, he made an ass of himself a lot, too. we could do without that aspect, but the tough-as-nails SOB thing would go a long way right now.
I really think the Pres. is being woefully ill-advised right now. They're backing off the public option because his numbers are falling, when the public option is overwhelmingly popular. He should be more aggressive, not less. People are upset because he's waffling. his staffers need to go back to school for a little while, I think.
http://bit.ly/1a5HMA
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raiatean
September 9, 2009 12:09 AM
Chambliss, Cheney, Bush, all these effing repig cowards telling, no commanding the president to show humility, I would walk in straight up to chambliss and kick the mother in the nuts so fucking hard it would take every undertaker in Georgia 3 months to wipe the grimace off that mother fuckers face... Goddamnit! Have I told you how very much I hate those bastards??
Send me some more repig tourists I am sure I can scour up some carrion eating sharks for them....
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oleeb
September 9, 2009 12:40 AM in reply to raiatean
I am so glad to read someone else who feels as I do that it's time to start kicking their fat asses!
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Libertine
September 9, 2009 1:00 AM in reply to raiatean
Just imagine if we had 'demanded' that Bush show more humility? Hell, we just wanted accountability and were accused of treason.
Like I just said somewhere else at this site...fuck Saxby Chambliss and the horse he rode in on. A good hard swift kick in the balls was never more deserving. I'd be in line right behind you to get my turn at him...
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