Posted on 07/07/2010 4:52:07 PM PDT by speciallybland
The Democratic campaign of former Gov. Roy Barnes has had a new TV spot up for nearly a week, but only made it available via the Internet this afternoon.
The delay was attributed to Fourth of July logistics.
The content is sensitive, directed at some of the odder and more ideologically polarizing causes pursued by Republican hardcores in the state Capitol – material that Barnes has regularly used as laugh lines on the stump.
For instance, on (unsuccessful) GOP legislation to ban the involuntary implantation of microchips in human beings: “If somebody holds me down and drives a microchip into my head, it had better be more than just a damn misdemeanor,” Barnes says.
But in this 30-second spot, Barnes quite seriously argues that the price of those ventures could be jobs.
The script:
Narrator: A governor can create jobs by selling the advantages of Georgia to firms looking for a home. But it’s hard for industry to take us seriously when the Legislature attempts to outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union.
Barnes: We can’t bring jobs to Georgia with the rest of the country laughing at us. I’ll make Georgia work.
Narrator: Strong leadership. To make Georgia work.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.ajc.com ...
Sounds like he’s setting up straw men.
Anybody certain that microchip implantation with “health information” isn’t included in the massive Obamacare bill?
Yes. Because they haven't started requiring microchipping of registered sex offenders.
That's probably the precedent they will use to establish that there's no constitutional violation in mandated microchipping without due process of law. ("Public safety" will be the selling point.) Nobody's going be be against that (except the registered sex offenders, of course), but once the precedent is in place everyone becomes fair game.
As Rush calls it, “The Atlanta Urinal Constipation”...:)
He was a HORRIBLE Gov., I cannot believe he is running again.
Last time around as governor, Barnes was a shoo-in for re-election. He had plenty of campaign cash on hand, and like any Democrat, he had no problem spending it, even though he really didn’t need to. Barnes flooded the airwaves telling everyone what a great job he had done as Governor for education in the State of Georgia. A few weeks before the election, a national education survey had been released. It showed that Georgia had just fallen from 48th place to 49th place among the states. South Carolina had just passed us. Needless to say, it was his own unnecessary campaign ads that brought about his demise.
Haven’t heard that before. I thought the flag thing and the teachers’ union did Barnes in in 2002.
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