Shameless Chambliss
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| Wed, 11-12-2008 - 8:00am |
Senator Saxby Chambliss is in a runoff election with Jim Martin in Georgia. Chambliss is the guy who in 2002 took out Max Cleland, a former U.S. Senator, triple-amputee disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, decorated war hero, and a critic of the Bush Administration. In the 2002 election, Chambliss stooped to run an infamous ad blasting an image of Cleland next to Osama bin Laden.
Then Chambliss was content to go right along with Bush and his failed policies for the past six years. Now
Chambliss expects people to reelect him for it.
How is Chambliss expecting to get himself reelected? By using the same hit-em-low fear tactics that Bush used to get himself reelected and that Chambliss used to defeat Cleland in 2002.
You can watch Chamblis' latest ad here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#27669978 , complete with fear music playing as the narrator says Obama is a scary liberal and shows his opponent Martin holding a sign reading "Women for Obama." I don't know about you, but Obama doesn't sound so much like a scary liberal to me. In fact, many think he's right of center. Instead, Obama sounds a lot like hope. And what is up with the prominently featured picture of the "women for Obama" sign in the Chambliss ad? Weird mind games I guess.
This is nothing new. Chambliss has a history of whipping people up with baloney:
"Chambliss was criticized for remarks he made during a November 19, 2001 meeting with emergency responders in Valdosta, Georgia, where he said that they should "turn the sheriff loose and arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line." "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss
By the way, let's compare Chambliss and Martin's military service, which is always a good baloney barometer:
"In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, Chambliss was given five student deferments and he received a medical deferment (1-Y) for bad knees due to a football injury."
"From 1969 to 1971, Martin served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War."
Just like Bush in 2000 and 2004, Chambliss was the wrong choice in 2002. Nothing makes him any better today.

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I live in Georgia and do not intend to vote for Chambliss. He is a dirt ball.
Well, it doesn't seem to have worked out that way in the last couple of years,
It's always so amusing when a party has lost so badly, that now it's all about "divided" governments, reaching across the aisle, which the Bush administration did not do, and everything now that the republicans are so totally out of power ought to be totally bipartisan.
It's always so amusing when a party has lost so badly, that now it's all about "divided" governments, reaching across the aisle, which the Bush administration did not do, and everything now that the republicans are so totally out of power ought to be totally bipartisan.
I've been here for years.
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