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Brojack wrote:
> 
> Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia is a wimp!! He bowed down to the darkies
> and change the flag to leave out the Conferate part. Dam wimp. Right
> now, we got a border-line racist in the White House, and he is packing
> the courts. All Sonny had to do is wait. We are going to roll back all
> the Civil Rights Shit, all the Voting Right Shit, and Roe vs Wade..
> You watch.. Bush is packing the courts. And do be suprised if you
> don't see BORK nominated to the Supreme Court.
> 
> And the Affirmative Action is going to be history.. It is a done
> deal...
> 
> Brojack
> 
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/910979.asp?0dm=N24FN
> 
> The new Georgia state flag and the U.S. flag wave by Miss Liberty on
> the Capitol in Atlanta.
> 
> Governor signs bill to replace Georgia's flag
> 
> Dixie cross of stars removed
> 
> 
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
> 
> 
> 
>       ATLANTA, May 8 �  Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill Thursday to
> replace the unpopular 2-year-old state flag with a simpler design that
> does not include a Confederate battle emblem.
> 
> 
> 
>  �I've never seen anybody flying it! You ever seen it on a boat? You
> ever seen it at a football game? Nobody flies this thing!'
> � GEORGIA REP. LARRY WALKER
>          THE NEW FLAG, inspired by a national Confederate flag but
> without the divisive Dixie cross of stars, was raised over the Capitol
> for the first time shortly after the governor signed the bill.
>        "The flag the General Assembly adopted honors Georgia's past,"
> Perdue said before signing the bill. "It is also a flag that will
> allow us to move forward together."
>        The flag displays the state's coat of arms and the words "In
> God We Trust" on a blue corner in the top left, with three
> red-and-white stripes to the right.
>        The 2001 flag was called a political masterstroke when it was
> adopted, replacing a divisive banner dominated by the Confederate
> battle cross.
>        But the closing hours of Georgia's shortest-lived flag brought
> little in the way of fond farewells. Even some of the architects of
> the 2001 flag gave it a curt obituary.
> 
> NO "DREAM FLAG"
>        "In no way am I sad that flag is being retired," joked Rep.
> Tyrone Brooks, a black Atlanta Democrat who led the charge to adopt it
> two years ago. "It's not exactly, you know, anybody's dream flag."
>        The brief-flying state flag was a compromise intended to shrink
> the Confederate emblem but incorporate the symbol in a mini-montage of
> old Georgia flags.
>        The result was what many considered a visual train wreck of
> words, seals and stars.
>        The flag was voted the nation's ugliest by a group of flag
> experts just five months after it was adopted. Southern heritage
> groups started calling it a "rag." Schoolchildren couldn't draw it.
> Around the Capitol, it was commonly referred to as looking like a
> place mat from a Denny's restaurant.
>        As lawmakers wrangled for months over changing the state flag
> this winter and spring, a rural Democrat summed up Georgia's
> frustration with the 2001 banner.
>        "I've never seen anybody flying it!" cried Rep. Larry Walker,
> of Perry, south of Macon. "You ever seen it on a boat? You ever seen
> it at a football game? Nobody flies this thing!"
>        Georgia's latest flag saga started last summer, when a rural
> Republican � Perdue � started talking about it in his underdog
> campaign to oust Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes. His promise of a
> statewide vote on the flag figured prominently in his surprise victory
> in November.
>        Perdue originally wanted a vote on the 1956 flag with its
> dominant Dixie "X" � adopted by an all-white
> 
>          Legislature at the height of Southern resistance to
> integration.
>        But after months of arguing, lawmakers decided to quash any
> chance of the Confederate emblem's revival and drew a new flag
> instead. Perdue agreed to the compromise.
>        Civil rights groups had threatened an economic boycott if
> Georgia revived the Dixie cross, which many blacks lawmakers call a
> symbol of oppression. Southern heritage advocates, on the other hand,
> called the new flag a betrayal.
> 
> REFERENDUM NEXT YEAR
>        Georgia voters will still get a referendum next year � to pick
> between the new three-stripe flag and the 2001 flag. Few give the 2001
> flag any chance to win.
>        "It's a flag that Georgians didn't warm up to," said Merle
> Black, a political scientist at Emory University. "They just didn't
> embrace it. Very few people ever bought that flag except the ones that
> had to, schools and so on."
>        Perdue said he was not completely satisfied with the bill
> because it did not give people a chance to vote on restoring the 1956
> state flag.
>        "While this bill does not include everything I asked for in my
> plan, I will respect the decision of the elected representatives of
> the people of Georgia," Perdue said.
>        Even critics of the 2001 flag's design acknowledge that it
> served its purpose as a transition piece that made the replacement of
> the 1956 flag possible.
>        And Barnes, whose official portrait in the Capitol shows him in
> front of the 2001 flag, he has no regrets.
>        "The important thing was to remove the Confederate emblem from
> its position of prominence," said Bobby Kahn, Barnes' chief of staff.
> "That was the important step. And we're still proud of that."

He may be a wimp, but at least he is a Republican wimp.


Whooops. I almost forgot. Wimp is a word that describes Republicans.
They really don't stand for anything, but make a lot of noise in the
process. Once they get morals and an education they become Democrats.