PHOTO Caption It? The President and Georgia Gov Sonny Perdue

[Jackeens]

Governors listen in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, as President Barack Obama addressed the National Governors Association regarding the economic stimulus package. From left are: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford; Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick; Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue; Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas; and the president.

[bluestateguy]

1. As I recall, Sonny Perdue is not being an asshole like the other Southern GOP governors

I don't recall reading any stories about him considering refusing the stimulus money.

[ecstatic]

9. but he's just as incompetent

He had us running out of water, gas, etc... He knows better than to turn down the funds after the mess he's made!

[Kalyke]

10. I don't have a GOP governor.

Tennessee, West Virginia and North Carolina are GOP Governor free.

[liberal N proud]

2. Peurdue is probably thinking: This guy is good, Really Good.

[gademocrat7]

3. That is my lame brain rethug governor.

A complete failure.

[windbreeze]

4. omg...I need a cup of coffee....n/t

[zeemike]

5. I got five bucks says everyone takes the money" n/t

[Iwillnevergiveup]

7. Agreed

even if they're shamed and heckled into it by their constituents.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. "Oh, man, the GOP is soooooo screwn. This guy is good...."

[dalaigh lllama]

8. "It. Does. Not. Compute. Brain...Hurts...."

[JayMusgrove]

11. Sonny Perdue, has a headache from so much thinking going on ..

in the room, and he had a bit too much to drink last night, wonders when the bar opens up again.

[CurtEastPoint]

15. It's not from drinking. He's a 'teetotaler' and forbids us from buying it on Sundays

F'ing asshole.

[Tatiana]

12. Oh noes... alls my base iz hiz! n/t

[CatWoman]

13. Mr. "Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last"!!

In the same manner that George Herbert Walker Bush used Willie Horton to exploit the irrational and racist white fear of black crime, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue used the issue of changing Georgia’s confederate emblazoned Flag, demanded by African Americans and their white democratic allies, to inflame a bigoted rural electorate against his democratic opponent, former Governor Roy Barnes.

Sean Wilentz, writing for Salon.com, breaks down the implicit racism employed by the maniacal right, “Republican politicians then exploited the issue, with all its blatant racial overtones. The Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Sonny Perdue, backed by Georgia Republican state chairman and former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, upheld the honor of those who died defending slavery, and pledged that, if elected, he would push for a statewide referendum to restore the old flag, nearly two-thirds of it taken up by the Confederate emblem.”

“The tactic worked like a charm, especially in Georgia where the Democrat Barnes had been expected to win reelection handily. The election returns clearly show that rural white voters switched in droves to vote Republican, and that the flag controversy was one important reason why.”

“… a victorious Sonny Perdue, appearing against a backdrop of Confederate emblems, jubilantly exclaimed, with dubious taste, a line from an old black spiritual made famous by another Georgian, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, free at last! Since then, Gov.-elect Perdue has backed off from his pledge to restore the old flag, and said with a straight face that the issue was only a “small” reason for his victory. And so his campaign appeals seem to have been just a cynical ploy, in a long tradition of Southern racial demagogy.”

http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/justice-harold-melton-sonny-perdues-colored-confederate/

[PopSixSquish]

14. Words Cannot Express How Much I Dispise This Man

He's a complete failure as a Gov. I can't wait to vote him out.

[lame54]

16. "No prayer is going to put us back on top."