The electorate is getting desperate in the Obama recession as news of a dead man elected mayor hits our editorial desk. Meet Carl Robin Geary Sr. of Tracy, Tennessee who won the mayor’s race after passing into the afterlife on March 10th, 2010.
The very dead Geary was elected by a whopping 268-85 vote margin in the small rural town, defeating a progressive incumbent mayor named Barbara Brock who became more and more unpopular as her term progressed.
She was a typical big spending politician in the mold of Obama himself who saw her role as mayor as an opportunity to spend freely in the small town. Her idea of “beautifying” Tracy Tennessee with bloated local government spending programs prompted a visceral reaction among the town’s people.
Like many small towns around America, the residents are seeing their jobs and prospects disappear under onerous federal government programs that tax the life out of the community they knew. The last straw for them was seeing their own locally elected leader following a reckless spending scheme.
Enough is enough, they said, and installed a dead guy as their new mayor. Apparently Carl Robin Geary could do no more harm as an elected official so they took their chances with the corpse. He won with 75% of the vote.
You can read about this interesting story here and here and here.
Curious as to reader thoughts about Carl Robin Geary, the dead man elected mayor of Tracy Tennessee in the Age of Obama. What does this story say about the political climate heading into the mid-term elections?
April 17th, 2010 at 3:21 am
These people are Idiots Voting a dead man in office they are so full of hate toward Obama because of his color. These are the same so call people who go to church every sunday calling themselves church people but they are wasteing their time they are going to hell
April 17th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Amen
April 17th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Of course you country hicks are Anti-Obama, you didn’t vote for him in the first place. When H W Bush sent this country’s young men and women to die over oil, you probably thought that it was the right thing to do.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:58 am
Why do democrats always use the race card? This has nothing to do about race. It has to do with goverment spending!! Just look at states like California. Bankrupt USA. That is where we are headed if the goverment doesn’t change their ways.
April 17th, 2010 at 6:03 am
Why is it when someone says something that someone doesn’t like about a person that is black, the detractors always bring up the “race” card. No one said anything about Obama because he is black, they, just like me, don’t like his spending. Go back under your rock! Quite hiding behind race. It’s people like you that will always see to it race is an issue. Not Southerners. Us Southerners are Conservative, don’t like big government, and for sure don’t want more government spending and taxing. Shut up and go away and our country will be a lot better without the likes of you and your kind of thinking, and Obama’s.
April 17th, 2010 at 6:45 am
I didn’t see this kind of response when Bush drove this country into the ground. He spend billions to rebuild countries that we destoyed during a worthless war. Atleast the spending Obama is doing is for the sake of this country and for the country.
April 17th, 2010 at 6:46 am
It’s amazing how outspoken the country is now, where was the Tea Party when Bush was slaughtering our troops in Iraq like cows for oil,and mismanaging a budget surplus, he had when he first was elected? Then there’s Sarah Palin, a woman who says she can see Russia from Alaska? Now I admit Obama has made some mistakes, but not the way Fox news and the tea party has potrayed him! The man is trying to help you people! Don’t let Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin fool you!!!
April 17th, 2010 at 6:58 am
Bush didn’t raise our taxes to do what he did. We will be paying for all this bigger spending for generations. The goal of the Democratic Party is to have as many people dependant on the government for the everyday needs as possible. The Democratic Party wants to eliminate free-thinkers and free-interprise, let “Us” take care of you and make all your descisions. I’ll give you this, you vote for me. You stay home, I’ll provide for you.
April 17th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Maybe they elected a dead dude just to get heard about? That’s something I would NOT do: I’d leave that to someone else.
April 17th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Why is it that when racist people clearly hate someone because of their race they whine “don’t use the race card”. That has become the popular defense to RACISM. People running around spitting on black people and calling them ni__ers, and then yelling “don’t use the race card. There have always been unpopular presidents before but never one that I remember being outright hated like Obama is. It’s pure RACISM whether it is admitted or not!
April 17th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Maybe if we had elected some dead men in congress we would be a lot better off. All these Obama protectors will go by the wayside. In a couple of years when he’s a lame duck, you won’t be able to find anyone who voted for him then.
April 17th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Race has nothing to do with disappointment with the Obama administration. Performance of carrying out duties as president and defying the will of the people who elected him has everything to do with his disapproval ratings. It is stupid to go against the will of the people and than be upset when they are unhappy with choices.
April 17th, 2010 at 8:44 am
You Dems really do elect some Gems.Your last choice was Clinton, hahahaha. What a dick he turned out to be. Made a laughing stock of the Whitehouse. And, then to have a choice between Hilary and Obama, well at least you made the right choice there. I had a bumper sticker that said ” Monika Lewinsky’s ex boyfriends wife for President 2008″ Wait until the elections in November and get your lame duck
April 17th, 2010 at 8:49 am
Its not a racial issue. Its a financial issue. The town was puposely making a statement but of course instead of arguing the real issue of money the moonbats on this thread have determined to make it about race.
“Yeah, were going to elect a dead white man just show those minorities or that black/white how we feel”
Do any of you moonbats realize how utterly stupid you sound ?
April 17th, 2010 at 8:50 am
“Yeah, were going to elect a dead white man just show those minorities or that black/white how we feel”
should say;
“Yeah, were going to elect a dead white man just show those minorities or that black/white “president” how we feel”
sorry
April 17th, 2010 at 8:56 am
this is about hating women too, as well as blacks. ahh hicks, always 50 years behind progress.
April 17th, 2010 at 9:07 am
Well, we have the Racists and the Sexists, all we need now is the Gays and we have a full house
April 17th, 2010 at 9:07 am
The good news being that they actually elected someone they can understand when he speaks this time.
April 17th, 2010 at 9:08 am
President Obama stated “judge me by the people I surround myself with” . Communist, Socialist, Marxist, domestic terrorist, black liberation theology. Most American are opposed to these principles and many Americans are opposed to this son of a communist Kenyan and are opposed to this mans principles. America stands for freedom from oppression and government dictates, and command society; ie you must enter into a contract with “evil insurance companies” or be fined or face prison time. Gulag, concentration camp, re-education camp, killing fields, all institutions of the left. The National Socialist Party (NAZI) was a left organization that forced national health care on the German, not so good for the Jews;
PS Did President Obama bow to the(White) Queen of England, I think not; but he bows to all the other non-white Kings so who is the Racist???
April 17th, 2010 at 9:15 am
So I guess they won’t be appointing Barbara Brock, who by the sound of it, is as popular as a Rattlesnake in a Lucky Dip. Who, by the way, was not elected in the first place. She was appointed to the job too
April 17th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Tennessee is a red welfare state that pays no state income tax and lives off the federal tax dollars brought in by the blue states. They are 90% Republican. You know the white hippocrits that suck the entitlements for all they’re worth while criticizing the minorities they think might get some of their money.
April 17th, 2010 at 9:53 am
What has the election of a dead man got do with Obama? This Right Pundit must be filled with anti-Obama hatred.
April 17th, 2010 at 10:33 am
i haven’t seen any fruits of that labor. Obama does not impress me nor did Bush.
April 17th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Leonard.
The people in the town are protesting the mayors actions/policies/spending which reflect those of Obamas, so what they’re saying is that they’re better off with a corpse.
Got it ?
Its not personal, I doubt many of us “HATE” the man but we sure as hell dont like what hes doing.
But because we reject his policies and hes black were called rac*st or hateful.
Those of you above who try to avoid the real issue by diverting or boiing it down to hatred of women or race are the true idiots.
Trust me, itsjust as easy to dig up plenty of examples of true hatred cominh from the left as well. Palin being hung in effigy, the 8 years of all the horrible things you said about Bush, comparing him to H*tler. Knocking signs out old ladys hands, shooting at and killing recruiters…
So just back off and try to concentrate on what really needs to be done.
All reliable polls show that a majoriy of the country does not like the direction its headed in.
Didnt a majority also vote Obama into office ?
Think.
The left is blowin it
April 17th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Well, if you read the headline it does say ‘Elected on anti Obama message’ so maybe thats why