The Island Is Going To Tip Over ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[Lamarr]

Thoughtone, please tell me this aint your congressman!



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[Panameno718]

This guy also believes in Global Warming !!!

 

[Stix-N-Stonz]

lolol the general wanted to laugh so bad

 

[QueEx]

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A little background on Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson:

• <font size="3">He's from Georgia's Fourth District.</font size>

• <font size="3">A Washington, D.C. native, he's the fellow who
  took office in 2007 after knocking off former five-
  term Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney.</font size>

Could there be something in the water the Fourth
Congressional District of Georgia ???


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[QueEx]

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In the meantime,

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson will host a grand opening of his new campaign headquarters today, Saturday, April 10, 2010.</font size>

Johnson, a Democrat, is running for a third term to represent Georgia’ Fourth Congressional District.

Johnson invites residents to stop by the office at 3054 Panola Road in Lithonia from 2-5 p.m. Saturday. He will greet supporters and serve refreshments.

Johnson will maintain his office in the Burroughs Building at 6440 Hillendale Drive, but is relocating his campaign headquarters to the new location, a spokesman said.

Johnson announced in December that he is battling Hepatitis C, but has said he is healthy and committed to running again.


The Opposition

Johnson faces former DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones and DeKalb Commissioner Connie Stokes on the Democratic ticket. Business consultant Liz Carter, retired naval officer Larry Gause and information security manager Cory Ruth are running on the Republican ticket.

The primary is scheduled for July 20 and the general election is scheduled for Nov. 2.​

http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/hank-johnson-opens-new-441156.html

 

[QueEx]

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Hank Johnson's Explanation
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 2, 2010


Johnson issued a written statement Thursday as the mockery mounted.

"I wasn't suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over," he said. Johnson said he was "using a metaphor" to describe how adding more military personnel to the tiny island "could be a tipping point which could adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and could overburden its stressed infrastructure."

"Metaphors work because there's a thin line between what is literal and what is not," said University of Maryland professor James Klumpp, who specializes in political speech and communication. "When politicians get on the wrong side of that line, that's when they get into trouble."

Of course Johnson is hardly the only Peach State politician whose convoluted commentary has caused confusion.

A few of the more memorable miscues:

• In 1996, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Atlanta, a Republican, made an unusual up-in-the-air link between beach volleyball and freedom. "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about," Gingrich said at the Republican National Convention.

• In 1976, Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter answered a question about public housing by saying people should be able to maintain the "ethnic purity" of their neighborhoods. Some saw Carter's remarks as a suggestion of segregation. He later explained he was referring to how people of particular nationalities sometimes like to live in concentrated areas.

• More recently, in September 2008, Republican U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Coweta County referred to then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and wife Michelle as "uppity" -- a pejorative historically used by white Southerners to describe well-to-do African-Americans. Georgia-born Westmoreland later said he never heard the term used in a racially derogatory sense.

Klumpp, the speech and communications professor, pointed out that the verbal gaffes that can beguile any politician can also affect anybody else.

"If you're a user of language, at some point you're going to feel like an idiot," he said.


http://www.ajc.com/news/rep-johnson-gaffe-guam-426715.html

 

[thoughtone]

Yes he is my congressman, that new offices is about 5 miles from my home and I will be attending. When I heard that statement I knew the opposition would run with it. Johnson has issues with the military expanding all over. This district is always a target of republicans/right wingers/Democratic Establishment during election cycles. It is majority Black and many areas are comfortably middle and upper class although their is poverty here too. This district is not as dependent on the military as the surrounding congressional districts although their is an army depot here that has been downgraded. Unlike the Republican districts to the north and west of here that are solidly dependent on turning out military aircraft. Any politician even showing a threat to that in Georgia will be subject to the wrath of the powers that be.

Lammar, there you go with those Ron Paul web sites again!