“I asked (county commissioners) if it\u2019s not the role of the government to protect people, then what is the role of the government?\u201d said Tristan Deering, a senior at Grayson County High School.<\/p>\n
Gary Logsdon, the county judge-executive, replied with a racist comment that suggested he believed President Barack Obama was a tyrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not black and I\u2019m not Obama \u2014 and I\u2019m not making you do anything,\u201d Logsdon said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cAnd I love blacks and whites,\u201d Logsdon said. \u201cI respect blacks but, you know, I\u2019m not Obama.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m sure the guy loves blacks. I’m sure he really has a lot of black friends. Really. I have no doubt of this, because I’ve never, ever heard racists claim this before.<\/p>\n
The poor teen went on to say he was “baffled,” by Logsdon’s comment. Hey, you aren’t alone, kiddo. I really think a lot of right-wingers just so hopelessly have Obama Derangement Syndrome, they can’t stop thinking or talking about him … or blaming him for everything under the sun. That’s all I can really figure here.<\/p>\n
Maybe this guy is “Confederate1978” or whatever. This is a guy from Kentucky who trolls stories about smoking bans posting insane comments about government and Obama and blacks (though you can guess what he usually\u00a0calls blacks, hint … it rhymes with “chiggers.”) The coincidence is actually kind of amazing here. I’ve seen ol’ Confederate’s name pop up in the comments section of many smoking ban stories for years now. I haven’t seen hide nor hair out of the guy for almost a couple of years.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the smoking ban vote failed in Grayson County. Grayson County is a fairly rural county in central Kentucky. Despite being a centre of tobacco-growing and having one of the highest smoking rates, there’s actually a number of city and country full-blown smoking bans in Kentucky in places such as Louisville,\u00a0Lexington and Bowling Green.<\/p>\n
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