Cobb Bar protested over Curious George/Obama T-shirt
 

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...nid=biz051308e

http://www.pledgepark.com/gallery/da...ous_george.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...eartmccain.jpg

This Cobb bar dude knows the significance of the monkey reference. That dude does controversial things for publicity. That's why I didn't bring that story over here.

Regardless of the nonracial connotations a monkey has, or whether some people think Obama actually looks like Curious George (not because he's black but because of his features), nonidiot people know what racial images this Obama monkey intended to conjure up.

Remember we are talking Marietta, Georgia off 75 North right around the GA 5 near Canton...

There is Atlanta Georgia and then there is the REST of Georgia...

That is how it's always been told to me when visiting....heh...

This clown knew what he was doing...matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he got the idea from Rush Limbaugh's flap a few months earlier:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0...urious-george/


Here is the clown and his shirt

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-...8051403616.jpg

marietta is an atlanta suburb

uuuh, yeah.....ok.....and?

does it count as the rest of georgia?

from MY standpoint....yes...

either way, he's pandering to his clientele. there was supposedly a protest, but his mind isn't going to be changed.

But at least we know where his mind is....

people have known as long as that place has been around. he hasn't hid his political views.

That's the South for you...

~done.

The South -- an evil place where thoughtcrimes are still not punished :(

this is a crime?

^^^How about some kind of trademark infringement? They can get him on that kind of like how they got Capone on tax evasion. That would show him.

yea, you're right. i heard the creators of curious george are thinking about suing.

You catch on so quickly!

:wassat:

HUH?

Kevin was trying to be clever, starang21. ;)

The only "crime" here would be a trademark infringement. I wonder if this Obama reference came before or after the woman called Limbaugh saying her child thinks Obama looks like Curios George. However, the point of a boycott usually isn't because a "crime" was commited. :rolleyes:

The problem is that the people who would boycott don't go to his bar, anyway, and the people who patron him see his ignorance everyday. I say stop advertising for this fool and just take this as a reminder of bigotry and stupidity (in case some idiots still need reminders).

trying. heh.

Wants to be a suburb of Atlanta... Conyers and Lithonia are better Suburbs or Atlanta--Hayle Tucker is a better suburb of Atlanta. LOL

I was just out in Marietta a week ago. No--like Daemon said... It is the rest of Georgia as far as what I saw. Maybe a few more sign than 20 years ago... Still the rest of Georgia...

Good...glad to see someone picked up what I was saying ;)

Love the siggie too!

marietta is much closer to conyers. and has way more stuff going on in it.

I forget and get all turn around, Marietta's north of Atlanta--Conyers is either east or south of Atlanta?

At any rate, I have family that lives throughout and is concentrated in, near are around Atlanta. Part of my upbringing is West End ATL--unforgettable... And lately, we did not get to Stone Mountain this go round...

So, no--Marietta might become a suburb one day. But that group in Cobb county has been resistant for YEARS--so this man's antics do not surprise me. After seeing Marietta and the signs to old family homesteads to Canton and Nelson, Georgia--(yes on the front of the sign is says "Welcome to Nelson" and on the back of the sign is says "Thank you for staying!")... 20 years and no change? I dunno?

Hayle I didn't even recognize Buckhead when I was out there last week. We had to us our GPS to tell us where to go. And Phipps Plaza is all different, now! And South Dekalb Mall--what a rundown place that is now... Wow!!! :eek:

It's like that Samurai Jack episode...

EAST. LIKE WAY EAST. IN FACT, I THINK MARIETTA IS CLOSER TO ATLANTA THAN LITHONIA/STONE MOUNTAIN. AND MARIETTA (AT LEAST THE PLACES THAT I KNOW OF) HAS HIGHER HOME VALUES THAN EITHER AREA.

Yeah, well Marietta in Cobb County as ALWAYS tried to set itself above, away and removed from Atlanta. That goes back many, many years ago. Possible during the two cities foundings. Atlanta first, then Marietta. Atlanta fell to the Union troops during the Civil War. Marietta sustained a little damage. Also, Marietta has better marble and granite quarries as well as farmland. 100 years ago the land was cheap and the homesteading/sharecropping was better in Marietta than Atlanta.

Then in mid-1950's major industrialization occurs with Coca Cola opening its huge plant, middle class families in Sweet Auburn and Inman Park. Slowly, corporate moves started taking place.

Safety and development moved in different directions in Atlanta. Marietta never kept up since the Olympics like other high end areas of the country (Like in Dallas--Park Cities Bubble and Las Colinas or Los Angeles, O.C. San Clemente-San Diego County Del Mar-Rancho Santa Fe and Seattle Mercer Island, Eastside).

The high end places in ATL became Austell, Stone Mountain, Lithonia, Conyers, some places near Augusta, making an access corridors from the oceans and Florida then from the North from New England and Midwest from Chicago. I-20 from the West is brought to Texas first... Hayle, my family has property in Sandersville, GA... I have ZERO idea what direction that is...

Very few native ATLians consider Marietta part of ATL. Marietta has ALWAYS been its OWN town and has demanded it so... Hey, when I was there--20 years ago, Cobb County was still having cross burnings somewhere every week.

I guess things have changed in recent years. I wouldn't consider Austell, Stone Mountain, etc. to be high end but I would consider East Cobb (Marietta) to be very, very high end.

People have been moving back in town over the years so, in my personal opinion, the high end places have become Midtown, Buckhead, Vinings which are all Atlanta addresses.

The two people I know from Marietta are actually pretty well off?

There is Atlanta's high end--probably the highest is Buckhead, et. al--it was when I was there... Then there is Marietta's high end--Cobb County has always been high end... Marietta's high end is "higher" than Atlanta's. But that does NOT make Marietta a SUBURB of Atlanta... Marietta in Cobb County is its own town. Many people see it that way...

Yeah...my college roommate is from Marietta and there were several girls in my chapter from that area (I swear half my pledge class went to Westminster) and they were all really wealthy. I visited the area and it seemed very very well-off to me.

My sister-in-law is from there, very old, very southern $$ (and power) in her family.

Marietta is its own town now, but it began as a suburb of Atlanta and grew into a different city as a product of sprawl. Marietta has its share of wealthy people, and like many ATL suburbs (Alpharetta, Peachtree City, etc), are generally considered well-off areas.