This Will Not Help Saxby Chambliss in the GA Run-Off

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This Will Not Help Saxby Chambliss in the GA Run-Off

In an interview with WGAU Athens this morning, incumbent Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss, currently locked in a run-off with Democrat Jim Martin, said that we can "trust" the "folks in the financial community" with the $700 billion being spent on the bailout. Chambliss added:

"If the smart people in the financial community think this is the best way to go, I think we have to respect that."

Could a statement be more tone-deaf? The smart people in the financial community? You mean the ones who managed to sink the global economy? Those smart people? Chambliss voted for the bailout — his opponent is calling it "disastrous" — and it's one of the main reasons why Chambliss is vulnerable in deep red Georgia. I suspect we'll see and hear Saxby's comments in an attack ad, oh, tomorrow morning...http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/11/10905_chambliss_trust_financial_industry.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. You go boyee!

Keep inserting that foot into your mouth until it comes out your ass!

[HereSince1628]

2. Realiance on authority is a conservative trait. His statement

recognizes the authority of "experts" (who we refer to as numbskulls). Suggesting we follow the experts undoubtely appeals to his base which is undoubtedly conservative.

So I would suggest that Chambliss isn't tone deaf, but rather is very tone sensitive and is trying to have his messages resonate with the frequencies of the mating song of _Homo conservatus_.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. This won't resonate with his constituents, I bet

because even the densist, most backward thinking among them in regards to other matters realizes the bailout is a disaster. I hear this all the time from racist repukes in my neighborhood.

[mcg]

4. People thought Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom was brilliant,

how did that turn out?

I'm sick of this worship of corporate rulers. Some got to their position through intelligence, but others got there through inheritance, having powerful parents, cunning, connections, greed, luck, and/or back-stabbing. Some have the "right look", white, male, tall, etc.

At Fannie Mae there was a lead programmer who was quite young for a lead. His dad was the vice president of a bank. It think it was quite likely that there was a connection, he was in the club. The same thing seemed to be true for a higher up there that I did a project for. He had the right look, the ideal white look, male, handsome. His parents were probably rich, he probably went to an ivy league school. He took credit for a good idea of mine. An a related article in FM's newsletter my name was not even mentioned.

There is an aristocracy in the U.S. Ivy league schools are one way to continue this aristocracy. What chance does a brilliant person born into poverty have to get into an ivy league school? Not much, they are lucky if they can even attend college, but someone like George W. Bush? Oh yea, he gets in. Companies recruit from ivy league schools for choice positions.

[aikoaiko]

5. Without a motivated African American-Democratic voter turnout

... I think Chambliss will run away with this one.

But miracles do happen.

[MindMatter]

6. How's that working out for Enron these days?

[TroglodyteScholar]

7. Help make Saxby a bad memory...

Now's a good time to donate to Jim Martin's campaign

www.martinforsenate.com