GA Gov. Perdue To Iraq Critics: "Keep Your Mouth Shut"

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/gov-perdue-to-iraq-critics-keep-your-mouth-shut

Gov. Perdue to Iraq critics: ‘Keep your mouth shut.’

This morning, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) was a guest on the radio show of former Education Secretary Bill Bennett on WKGA in Atlanta. He lashed out at the Republicans who have been criticizing President Bush on the Iraq war, stating that “until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.” He added, “The president did not choose war. The president chose to protect the United States of America, and he did.” (Listen to the audio HERE.)

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I *have* got a better idea.

Bring the troops home. NOW.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Why would anyone want to go on Bill Bennett's radio show?

Why would anyone want to give Bill Bennett his own radio show?

[NightWatcher]

3. GA citizen to Perdue: Fuck you

the Bil Bennett show is profane. It is nothing but hate. I have been banned a few times(?) from the show because I call in and trash them with facts on a monthly basis.

[GaYellowDawg]

9. Another GA citizen to Perdue: And the horse you rode in on!

That sorry son of a bitch has got to be the nation's worst governor.

[NightWatcher]

10. and to think that the uber red necks wanted to "punt" him because of the flag

he's a joke.

[CottonBear]

12. Those uber red necks are called Flagots by some of us here in GA.

It's amazing that a vocal minority of KKK sympathizers and old style, racists Dixiecrats can affect public policy in what used to be the South's most progressive state. (Of course, many middle and upper class whites like the confederate styled GA flag tto.) Oy!
:(

[Lex]

18. Flagots?

Nice. :eyes:

[CottonBear]

23. The pro-flag bigots are ruining our state.

Democratic Gov.Roy Barnes was voted out of office because he dared to change the flag from the racist 1950s version to a modern, non-racist design.

[bdamomma]

4. oh these people are so deluded

[11 Bravo]

5. It will be a cold day in Hell when I take orders from a fully-grown man who calls himself "Sonny".

Piss off, you inbred little twit.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Yo Sonny, bush did "choose" the war

He let the 9-11 terrorist attack occur so he and his supporters (ignorant trash like you) would have a reason to get all flag wavy and patriotic and want to go kill a whole bunch of non white, non christian foreigners. (But actually yall sent other peoples kids to die for your lies huh?) You ain't gonna shut me up bitch. You are a fucking embarrassment to Georgians everywhere.

[CottonBear]

11. I met Sonny when he ran his first campaign. He asked for my vote

and I told him that I'd voted for Democrats, Independents and Greens but that I'd never voted for a Republican and I wouldn't start now so he wouldn't be getting my vote.

Boy, did that ever feel good. :evilgrin:

I met him again last summer but could not speak my mind to him because I was at a work related event and the press was standing right there.

Did you know that he's a licensed vet? A friend of mine was one of his professors in vet school.

[BOSSHOG]

15. I don't know if I should mention this here

but I might actually vote for a republican this summer. We have eight guys running for county sheriff. One is a republican, a very good man and a very professional law enforcement officer. The election is in August. The people running against him pale relative to experience and integrity.

We should be eating homegrown tomatoes any day now.

[CottonBear]

22. Your candidate sounds like a stand up guy. I'm not so pleased with my Democratic sheriff.

Mmm! homegrown tomatoes. I'm going to plant some in pots on my patio this weekend. I believe there are patio varities that don't get to big. It's super dry here. We need rain.

:hi:

[BOSSHOG]

24. I planted a Brandywine Heirloom Tomato from seed

in a 55 quart container and its doing good. I got it caged and its doing well. The "creoles" are fixing to be harvested. I thought that creoles were only grown in Plaquemines and St Bernard Parish but they sell them over here as well. I also have some supersteaks; and I'm planning another planting in about a month.

[RebelOne]

21. He's not a bitch, he's a bastard.

[mod mom]

7. Maybe I should have my fifth grader explain the constitution to him.

[CottonBear]

8. CB says to her governor: Don't you dare try to supress freedom of speech, asshat.

Gawd...I really detest this goober of a governor. He's run our state into the ground financially, he's supporting slash and burn development of our most fragile areas (coast, mountains, river buffers) while profitting from real estate deals and, finally, he seems to be trying to take us back to the 1950s We've experienced the re-segreagation of schools, lack of health care, lack of funding for public transit and schools and the whosale destruction of the environment.

We used to be the MOST progressive southern state. :cry:

[Bitwit1234]

13. Did this guy just drop in from Outer Space?????

The president did not choose war he chose to protect the United States. From whom....bin laden is still free.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. “The president did not choose war"?????? Sonny, pay attention! YES HE DID!

Iraq had nothing to do with 911...you dumb ass.

[Bluebear]

26. 'The president did not choose war.' - wow, this is one dumb shit, isn't it? nt

[CatWoman]

16. Mr. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last"

goober of a fat lying pig has the nerve to tell someone to shut up?

Sonny Perdue, meanwhile, won the governorship by following a strategy that has served Republicans well since 1964 -- a subtle appeal to the lingering resentments of Southern whites. Perdue found the perfect issue to arouse the "Forget Hell" crowd -- the new state flag. Two years ago, Gov. Barnes convinced the legislature to replace the old state flag, which prominently featured the Confederate battle flag emblem, with one that reduced that divisive symbol to a tiny icon at the bottom of the flag. Perdue brochures asked voters in rural areas to "remember who changed your flag," and they did.

According to the Associated Press, Perdue swept the state's predominantly rural, white counties. He won 95 of the 96 counties that are more than 65 percent white. Four years earlier, Barnes won 55 of those counties.

Perdue promised that, if elected, he would organize a statewide referendum to allow the people to decide whether to bring back the old flag. The popular response to his promise could be seen on bumper stickers and T-shirts around the state: "Change the governor, keep the flag" and "Boot Barnes, let us vote." The bring-back-our-flag crowd insists it's about heritage and ancestry and not about race. They must have forgotten the history of how the Confederate emblem came to dominate their state flag. The flag was changed by the Georgia legislature in 1956 as gesture of defiance after federal courts ordered the racial desegregation of the state's public schools. Not about race?

Now Perdue is about to reap the harvest of the seeds he sowed in the campaign. He's already squirming over how to keep his word to Confederate diehards without reopening the racially divisive fight that Barnes settled. Perdue says he never made a big issue of the flag in his campaign, but after the election he reiterated his position that voters should have a choice. "I don't campaign on one thing and do something else," he told reporters last week, suggesting the white flag of surrender is not an option.

It will be interesting to see if the governor-elect can placate his flag constituency without alienating the Atlanta business establishment, which fears the issue could lead to boycotts and protests that could tarnish the city's progressive image. Business leaders already are getting the word to Perdue -- don't pick at this scab.

In his victory speech, Perdue declared the end of Democratic dominance in Georgia by quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we're free at last." It must have been a jarring moment for anyone, especially blacks, watching the celebration on television -- a Republican who wants to unfurl a segregationist flag borrowing the stirring words of the great civil rights leader who died for the cause of desegregation.

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/11/17/news_pf/Columns/Georgia_Republicans_p.shtml

[flyarm]

17. my message to Gov Perdue..this is my country and my money , now you shut the fuck up!! ..

da t da t da t da t d a t dat thats all folks..

fly

[Mr. Ected]

19. And The Ignorant Georgians Respond With A Boisterous "Hell Yes!"

Having lived here for over 20 years, this kind of idiocy doesn't surprise me in the least.

After all, Georgians RE-ELECTED this asshat. While the rest of the country tossed their Republican governors out the window.

I bet living in GA adds 20 points to my blood pressure.

[NNN0LHI]

20. We should drop Gov. Sonny Perdue down into the middle of Sadr City on a wire n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

25. I'm glad to no longer live under Gov. Perdue

[Oilwellian]

27. Good old Sonny

A sack of shit if there ever was one.

[MGKrebs]

28. I think a LTTE is in order.

In other Sonny news:

The Repub majority legislature failed to pass a budget before the legislative session ended. Actually, the did pass it, but the (also Repub) Governor (the aforementioned Sonny) vetoed it. After the session, the Speaker had a meeting with the Governor to try to find a way to come up with a budget without calling a special session, which would be very embarrassing for Republicans and cost tens of thousands of dollars to boot. The plan they came up with was for the Governor to rescind his veto.


I'm serious.


Lawyers are now examining the legality of that maneuver.

These are strange and oddly humorous times we live in.

[mmonk]

29. Why do we have to let them continue to lie?

Why do we have to continue to let broadcasters give them a medium to lie. Why do we have to let the media at large, push the lies as a position with equal status to the truth, allow them to omit details of vital interests to the citizenry, and continue the false framing? Today in an editorial in the paper, they said Cheney lives in the real world in his warnings to our vichy government in Iraq and that we're in Iraq to fight terrorism. Why do we have to allow it? Why do we have allow this whole damn charade with all the mayhem and the pure damnation of the American soul to continue? I think its time to shut down their lies.