“The bitch set me up Barry” has won another election. Is the talent pool that dismally shallow in the District of Columbia? :rolleyes:
I get the impression that without statehood and more investment in infrastructure than Congress seems willing to allocate, they’re essentially screwed no matter what, so why not piss off The Man just for the hell of it?
No offense, cousins, but your capital city is a mess. I hope we never let Ottawa slide that far.
And you don’t know that it’s MUCH better than it was 10-15 years ago.
As for Barry? He’s a GREAT politician who specializes in getting HIS vote out in the city. He know how DC runs left, right, up and down.
And you know who the DC mayor was 15 years ago, JC? Barry is a master of mobilizing his constituency, but to what end? He doesn’t deliver on services or efficient government, but as long as a politician can claim to be supported by Gee-zus and has a tearful conversion story to wow the gullible, he’ll win. Dubya uses the same formula to get the credulous to vote for him, so Barry’s just using a winning tactic.
While the city as a whole is better off than it was 15 years ago, that hasn’t trickled down to Ward 8 which elected Marion Barry to the city council. Ward 8 is still the poorest part of the city, and almost none of the growth in DC has benfited them.
Heh.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
-Rick James
Aw, don’t be so hard on us. We just wanted to give him another crack.
Oh, man. I thought we had laws that prohibited convicted felons from holding public office. I guess I was mistaken.
The only good thing I can say about Berry is that he gave me the name for my award-winning marionberry mead**…“The bitch set me up!” Melomel.** 
Ha! Looks like all of the snotty, arrogant migrants to the city up and forgot to vote!
Most of the snotty, arrogant migrants don’t live in Ward 8.
Pizzabrat, as someone who already regards you as a first class idiot, let me be the first snotty migrant to the city to tell you to fuck off.
Barry was elected to the City Council seat in Ward 8, the voters of the city did not elect him, only the citizens of that ward had any hand in the decision. Do you care to explain why you choose to label me snotty and arrogant, or do you have more enlightening posts about death spike sofas to write?
Why would you insult me and then ask me to explain why I supposedly insulted you? Besides, I was using “snotty” and “arrogant” to specify - I wasn’t including the nice migrants.
I would insult you because the above is just one in a parade of idiotic posts by you that deserve insult. You could at least stand by your posts, that qualification (the nice migrants) is about the lamest excuse you could have come up with.
Fine, I hate all migrants, then. What the hell do you want me to say?
I was a resident of DC when Barry was reelected, not all that long after being filmed smoking crack with a whore. I was astonished, flabbergasted, baffled and dismayed. The guy slapped on a kente, did a little “Black Power” shuckin’&jivin’, and a resounding majority of DC voters bought it. I asked myself “How on Earth could this happen? Collective insanity?”
I failed to appreciate until later how much DC residents of color hate those they feel are responsible for their disenfranchisement. It is (or was, and maybe is again) a deep, seething, overmastering hatred that turned Marion Barry into a walking middle finger, essentially. Barry, of course, proceeded to make an even bigger mess of the place than it was already, but it must be conceeded that there is little that anyone can do to remedy the places institutionalized dysfunctionality. Barry could only make a very bad situation a little worse, and most D.C. residents care very little for the esteem of outsiders. If their elected “leader” serves as little more than an affront to “The Man”, that is enough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24560-2004Sep15.html
An article about the discontent east-of-the-river D.C. residents feel.
Look, I’m not gonna go to the mat for Barry, but if the incumbents wanted to stay in power they should at least give the appearence of listening to their constituents. Williams was going to raise taxes for…hmm…let’s see…was it our rotten public school system? No, that wasn’t it. Reopening our lost public hospital? no that’s not it either. Oh, right, He was raising taxes to pay for a Goddamm BASEBALL STADIUM!!! There ain’t enough rolleyes in the world.
Again, yes I think ward 8 residents are crazy if they think Berry’s going to help them. But I understand their frustration.
Oh, I certainly understand that. But I’m not saying he’s a good man or good for DC. Just that he’s a master of working Washington for his own interests. That bit so many years ago about holding parties on election day and then showing up with vans to DRIVE people to the polling stations was brilliant.
DC General’s closing really hurt Allen, especially because she didn’t do anything about it.