Grand Junction Obama Billboard Depicts Obama As A Muslim, A Gangster, And A Gay Man

Okay...not how it reads, but....

I respect the Office... just not the man in Office.

But we can express our lack of respect for an individual in a more respectful way. Lack of respect doesn't need to be expressed disrespectfully to get the point across.

Fortunately this is America and we can express our disrespect on billboards, with bullhorns, at rallies with signs and such, on the Internet, at the office, at the beauty salon, on NV, on TV, on the radio....at the voting booth, well you get the point.

I respect the Office... just not the man in Office.

Is that an admission that it was you that paid for and designed this?

Whoever posted this thing (or whoever is acting as the front for the people who did) can be counted on to whine that he's being denied his First Amendment rights when people call him a racist, because dammit, he should have the right to say what he thinks without having to listen to anyone else say what they think of him. And that, in a nutshell, is the Tea Party version of the U.S. Constitution.

Uncle Sam as a vulture, soldiers as rats? Sure, why not? These patriots love their country so much that they want to secede from it.

No matter how much I dislike or disapprove of an individual president, be he Republican or Democrat, I would never show such disrespect to the office of the President of the United States.

I respect the Office... just not the man in Office.

I don't have a problem with disrespectful speech. Just don't cry about it when others tell you what they think of your...expression.

The money is out there, all you have to do is do something anything anti democratic.
The amount of corporate money is crazy.
The amount of air time bought up at one time is unprecedented in the history of advertising.
They are trying to outdo each other so they can re-up for that corporate money. Undemocratic, very bad for our liberty...

Is that an admission that it was you that paid for and designed this?

*faceplam*

I would never show such disrespect to the office of the President of the United States.

Exactly. The same people who now condone the disrespect of President Obama cried every time somebody even dared to point of FACTS about Presdient Bush. Its hypocritical to say the least but karma has a way of punching those kinds of people right in the gut.

Is it near South Park, CO?

Nope, Grand Junction is about 250miles from South Park, depending on which route you take.

Grand Junction is about 250miles from South Park

To be fair to Colorado, Grand Junction is about 10 miles from Utah.

I was passing through there one day. There was this giant metal sculpture of a rhinoceros beetle. Damned thing scared the hell out of me. But overall, I found CO to be a beautiful state despite the bug scare.

I would expect that to be in Colorado Springs, more than Grand Junction. It fits their way of thinking better.

South Park ala Cartman, is based on Littleton, Co. Not the actual South Park area itself. There are too many inside jokes on that show. You would have to know the area to get most of them.

It's a toss-up, mel! I live a half hour from "Focus Against the Family" (in Parker) and used to live in the Springs. Hated every minute of it. But GJ is redneck central. One's a little more cosmopolitan in it's Neanderthalness, the other one is blind stupid. I frankly can't stand either.

Parker, that bastion of country living, lol

We have a business there, for over 20yrs. I have seen it grow from a hick town, were cowboys rode into town wearing dusters, the war horse was the only good place to eat. To another extension of Aurora, which it is currently at.

Metrob, you are correct, it was outside of CS. It was so long ago I got my geography bassackwards. I still loved traveling through CO though.

mel, do you live here now? I'll fight ya a little on us being Aurora, but someday you'll be right. But boy, how it's changed! Email me if you're still here and we'll hook up. We live in The Pinery, up the hill from the Country Club.

It would be simpler and better for the economy just to cut off the federal funds that keep Colorado (and all the other western states) afloat. But that's in the realm of fantasy, because no matter how often the likes of Rush Limbaugh call Obama a "gangster," Obama has never used the kind of thuggish tactics that Bush/Cheney used to run roughshod over anyone who got in their way. See under Plame, Valerie.

Bulllllll@!$%#!

People burned effigies of Bush, but this little drawing makes you want to kill people?

Cool.

People burned effigies of Bush, but this little drawing makes you want to kill people?

Who said we want to kill people? (BTW way to turn up the rhetoric to 11!) The big problem here is not the targeting of a president, the problem is that whoever did this decided it was OK to intentionally a bunch of other groups of people (in effect verbal collateral damage), when it should have been a statement just against Obama. You don't respect the man, fine. But what does it honestly contribute to your dissatisfaction with Obama to add fuel to the fire of hate speech already being inflicted on these people?

In any case, our anger at Bush was for sending us and our family, friends, neighbors, etc. off to get killed in a war based on flimsy evidence (turned out we were right on that one), as well as leftover resentment that the guy bought his way into the position to make such a decision anyway. Rightwingers, on the other hand, are getting all worked up over little greenish sheets of paper...

Who said we want to kill people?

I say we should find this bastard and execute him right there in the middle of the street

I say we should find this bastard and execute him right there in the middle of the street

And that would make you a psycho.

OK, now I see what you're talking about. But, maybe I'm misreading the point, but I thought he was making a point about the fact that when Bush got criticized, the GOP said the left was being unpatriotic for disrespecting the president during wartime, but that now, even though we're still at war, it's suddenly OK for the right to criticize Obama as they have (Nazi, commie, socialist...).

You're cool, Rijad, I just wanted to point out that Metal advocated killing people for freedom of expression. He's certainly tolerant, isn't he?

Well that's just the thing. If the guy was really so proud about his message... there would be no need for anonymity. My thoughts is he is scared of getting harassing calls, getting called out on it publicly, and the negative effect it will have on his family and friends if he has any.

He, like most racists, are silent in public, and reserve their fears for anonymous web sites and bully their own families with this nonsense. Like the Westboro Baptist Church's hate speech, voiced only under armed police protection. We could say this is quite cowardly, but also no surprise.

It won't convince anyone to do anything. This is what's known as "preaching to the choir." What it tells the rest of us is just how nasty, cacophonous and off-key that choir is.

...they do give me a chuckle and hopefully will help convince a few people to vote him and his cohorts out of office...

Don't worry. I'm sure the Republicans have a lock on the racist vote. Enjoy the company you keep.

...they do give me a chuckle and hopefully will help convince a few people to vote him and his cohorts out of office...

Nah I'm sure you guys have always retained the KKK's support.

^ More Godwins Law in action!

*sigh*

I'm not convinced he is a gay man as for the Muslim and gangster those are correct.

Wow Dean.

That's so witty.

Thank God I logged onto the Internet in time to witness such profound, awesome wit.

PFFFFFFTTTT.

What a squirrel.

Yep.

Double standards and hypocrisy is one of the Democrats core values it seems. :/

Double standards and hypocrisy is one of the Democrats core values it seems. :/

saying they are rubber and democrats are glue is the only republican defense, it seems.

Like I needed another reason not to live in Grand Junction.

So if you were up to your neck in Colorado Springs and somebody threw a bucket of Grand Junction at you, would you duck?

would you duck?

Right down to French Lick, Indiana

Mine too. And I live here!!!

Mine too, but what the Hell, I've always wanted to say "French Lick, Indiana."

Mine too. And I live here!!!

sigh, you can't explain a joke, so let me tell it another way.

if you were up to your neck in used food and someone threw a bucket of more recently used food at you, would you duck?

But I don't eat used duck. I still don't get it.

JUST KIDDING!!! Good joke. I was tired.

Yeah that was pretty dumb, but... his wife looks manly for a women so I guess I could see how some idiots could get confused. ;)

SR, that is all in the eye of the beholder. I think the first lady is the best looking one so far!

Lol. Better looking then Jackie Kennedy?

I miss Jackie.

But but but its his policies I am against......

Better looking than Barbara Bush? ;-)

LOL... Come on, doesn't get better than Eleanor Roosevelt!

May be the first thing that Dems and Repubs have agreed upon in 2 years.

Fair enough!

I miss Barbara Bush.....aka....Martha Washington

ahh, little georgie's Uncle Barbara...

For some reason Democrats are the only group that think any body who disagrees with Obama on any topic is automatically a racist.

No, we think people who constantly question him as being a Muslim (not that there's really anything wrong with that), not born in Hawaii, socialist (again, see the point about being a Muslim) and imply he's a Nazi - those are the people who we think are racists.

On the other hand, far-rightwingers think that anyone who agrees with Obama is a racist (for all you who hadn't heard about Rush suggesting blacks were racist for supporting Obama).

My guess would be the Democratic Party did it. Why?

becsause rationalization is easier than being rational. once you've worn that groove into your mind you might as well haul coal in it.

That "groove" is as big as the Grand canyon. Go read his shtick.

but it would be disingenuous to say whoever did doesn't share lots of beliefs with your average Tea Partier.

That's disingenuous in itself because that ISN'T the beliefs of an average Tea Party supporter. So your spreading lies as well.

ISN'T the beliefs of an average Tea Party supporter. So your spreading lies as well.

You're right. No way to actually support this statistically. But this billboard certainly is in line with a sentiment of how GOP/TP candidates are coming across. And it's no leap of logic to assume that these candidates are merely playing off what they seem to think their supporters want to hear...

You want to change the widespread perception that this is how an average GOP/TP supporter thinks? Great, I support you fully. Here's my 3-step program:

1) Start by denouncing this billboard as the race-baiting ignorance that it is.

2) Contact your local GOP/TP candidate that is mimicking these same sentiments and tell them to stop, maybe stick to fiscal issues like they're supposed to.

3) Call up Fox News and tell them to stop propagating this nonsense on the airwaves to their viewers who don't know any better.

I really would support you TPers - we desperately need 3rd party alternatives to the standard D & R. But what we don't need are parties that parrot out the same nonsense as the other 2, and resort to juvenile name-calling and bigotry. Purge those elements and you might have a good party...