Charles Barkley (on Run for Gov of Alabama): I plan on it in 2014

[tekisui]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/27/brown.barkley/index.html
End of good interview:

Brown: So are you going to run for governor?

Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.

Brown: You are serious.

Barkley: I am, I can't screw up Alabama.

Brown: There is no place to go but up in your view?

Barkley: We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.

Brown: And the top priority for you would be education?

Barkley: All the way education, the public school system in this country is the worst it has ever been and what that does is that hurts crime, it hurts the judicial system. You know if you don't give people education and hope, they become criminals. They get involved in drugs. So we have got to fix the public school system. I think we need to make these neighborhoods safer. And the third thing, you have got to give people economic opportunity. America for far too long has a small group of people who have got all the money and then we got a bunch of poor people who have no money. And because we have killed the public school system they can't get the education to make money and that is just not right.

[Fuzz]

1. Now THAT'S a long campaign!

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. I'd vote for him.

He says what he thinks even if you don't like it. Sir Charles couldn't be any worse than some.

[w4rma]

3. I hope he isn't pro-voucher. (nt)

[tom_paine]

4. I seriously doubt that he is, though we'll have to see.

Sir Charles would make a fine governor. He is no dummy, and certainly the equal of Jessie Ventura or Ronnie Reagan in terms of actors turned governors. Though Jessie probably has better "killing skills", since he was in the Navy SEALS. :rofl:

I am from PA and have followed Sir Charles since he came into the NBA. He was a young hothead and a jerk who has mellowed into a pretty smart, decent guy, from what I can tell from a distance. Though he sort of has a Muhammed Ali thing verbally going on. I don't know why that is, maybe it's just the way he talks or maybe he is hiding a sickness (I hope not). But it will hurt him in politics.

In either case, Charles is Charles, and if people listen to what he has to say instead of how he says it, the blunt honesty and common sense of it will win them over in droves. And, though I am not condoning the sad state of race in America, his NBA Star status will blunt the Alabam Bushfederate racism against him. I'd like to see the Bushie who will dare try any of that Karl Rove Code bullshit on him. He will just brush it aside, and do it with class...you wait and see.



This book below, I think, he wrote during his brief flirtation with Bushevism in the good years of the 90s, when things were so good we had the luxury of such nonsense. His eyes, like so many others, have been snapped awake.

But, to be quite honest, I've read neither book, only of them. I have heard him speak. I doubt he's for vouchers and I think he'd make a damn good governor. Remember, Alabama is Karl Rove's "second home of evil" and home to the Siegelman persecution and the most crooked federal attorneys in a country where they're pretty much ALL Loyal Bushie Crooks (witness the ACORN Op).

And Sir Charles Barkley, I think is Karl Rove's Worst Nightmare in his Second Rovian Home of Evil After Texas. And, no, I am not talking about his physical stature, though that never hurts, but his celebrity status which wil shield him combined with his plain spoken-blunt honesty (which frankly, the whole Democratic Party, with a notable few exceptions, should emulate) will make it hard for Rove to bully, intimidate and tar him with the crooked Bushie US Attorneys and LEOs under their control.

And Sir Charles might go right after breaking the power of the Criminal Bushie Arm of Alabama State Law Enforcement. Dare we hope?

Even if he doesn't do THAT (which would be A++ beyond wildest hopes), he will be a damned fine governor, I think.

This book below, I think, he wrote during his brief flirtation with Bushevism in the good years of the 90s, when things were so good we had the luxury of such nonsense. His eyes, like so many others, have been snapped awake. Might not be worth reading, based on the title and the period of his life Charles wrote it, but then Charles has always surprised.

[tom_paine]

5. Can we get some K & Rs for Sir Charles NOT being a self-absorbed airhead celebrity?

NOT only caring about himself but, having woken up to the Bushie Evil of the last 20 years, now wuishes to DO SOMETHING at great personal sacrifice and even danger. In these degenerate reverted Bushie-Days, where muich of the South is a kinder, gentler version of the 50s... same oppression, less lynching; KKK wears business suits, not white suits...is it still not dangerous for Sir Charles to run for Governor in a state where George Wallace is probably more revered than ever under the Rise of Bushfederatism?

I think it is, though God Forbid it should happen.

Point is, this is KICK :kick: worthy and I hope Mr. Barkley follows through with it.

[Blue_Tires]

6. why does he keep putting off the campaign?

he's only been talking about Montgomery for damn near 20 years (and seriously for 10)

[Lilith Velkor]

7. Rednecks' heads will explode

when faced with the choice between a Democrat and a black Republican.