By now most people in southwest Georgia have heard about the incident in Plains, Georgia where a doll depicting President Barack Obama was hanged in effigy. I first learned about it yesterday when checking the Drudge Report. By then, it had already made national news.
Similar displays were done to President Obama’s predecessor, President George W. Bush. However, this occurrence carries an emotional sting because it happened to our nation’s first black president. The fact that it also happened in the small southern hometown of our nation’s 39th president was surprising.
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