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Outrage at anti-Obama billboards calling him village idiot and with child giving him the finger
31 August 2012 | EMMA REYNOLDS

Posted on 08/31/2012 6:00:36 AM PDT by dennisw

Controversial anti-Obama billboards showing children giving the finger to President Barack Obama have sparked outrage among passing drivers. The three provocative campaign posters are on display outside a motorbike accessories store off Route 27 in Hanson, Massachusetts.

One shows a little girl raising her middle finger next to the message: 'Thanks Obama. You’ve spent my lunch money, my allowance, my inheritance, 35 years of future paychecks and my retirement. You Jerk. Vote Mitt Romney For 2012!'

Beneath the picture are the words: 'Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot. Obama – One Big A** Mistake America. Vote Mitt Romney For 2012!' Eric Folsom, a father from a neighboring town, told local newspaper The Enterprise that it could put him in a difficult position when he passes by with his six-year-old daughter. 'If she saw that, she’d say "Why is that little girl doing that? What does that mean?"' he said. 'How do I explain that?'


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Elendur

>>>i don’t CARE about “promises” being kept to Seniors.
why are they “entitled” to more money than they put in,
at the expense of our children and GRANDCHILDREN ???>>>

Because they paid in the amount it would have cost for their care at the time they earned it. Or would you expect someone earning $50 a week to have paid in $80,000 a week? And just who created the high prices of today? Liberals and their desire to bankrupt America.


61 posted on 08/31/2012 6:48:55 AM PDT by kitkat
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To: Night Hides Not

You’re bringing a little girl to a gunfight?


62 posted on 08/31/2012 6:50:04 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Paladin2

Whole lot of finger-flipping going on.

Back atcha’ BHO.


63 posted on 08/31/2012 6:51:12 AM PDT by hummingbird (I CAN CU2!)
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To: dennisw

I love it. We know that Romney is not going to carry MA anyhow. I just hope it doesn’t cause a backlash for Scott Brown.


64 posted on 08/31/2012 6:52:00 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: Doogle
What could have been a powerful message is destroyed by going one step too far. Imagine this photo without the words "you jerk" and without the girl shooting a bird (just frowning). It would have been more powerful and resonated with every parent (regardless of their political affiliation).

Instead, what this does is just speak to the choir.

When you start throwing insults like "you jerk" it causes people to simply harden their position. Even if your listener deep down things your argument is 100% right, the listener is not going to agree with you because you have injured their pride by calling them a jerk.

That's human nature on both sides of the political fence.

65 posted on 08/31/2012 6:55:15 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Freedom--tastes like chicken)
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To: dennisw; Chode

I LOVE IT!!


66 posted on 08/31/2012 6:57:10 AM PDT by Morgana (-----------> Eat at Chick-Fil-A <-----------)
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To: dennisw

There’s a billboard drivers can see driving east on I-40 headed into Knoxville. Something like, “America or Obama. You can’t have both.” Short and sweet.


67 posted on 08/31/2012 6:58:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: dennisw

The sign should never have had “jerk” or the bird.


68 posted on 08/31/2012 7:00:22 AM PDT by ROTB (Live holy, forgive all & pray in Jesus' name. Trust He is willing & able & eager to ANSWER BIG!)
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To: dennisw
billboards
69 posted on 08/31/2012 7:01:06 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: dennisw

http://www.sullivansinc.com/Misc/Locations.aspx

Where the sign is.


70 posted on 08/31/2012 7:01:10 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: dennisw

They are just upset that it wasnt done to President Bush first
FUBO


71 posted on 08/31/2012 7:01:49 AM PDT by italianquaker ( 17 percent of the tea partiers support barry obama, the fox poll said so lol)
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To: Calvin Locke

OP had no link, Post 4 had a link to the UK paper.


72 posted on 08/31/2012 7:02:53 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: dennisw

Good for them! It’s about time for this. Being nice and playing nice with the National Socialist Democrat Party has always encouraged them to be nastier. These types of displays DO have a positive effect. Der Fuehrer and his brownshirts have used children, old people, and displays that were much worse than these with a lot of effect. Time to shove it back up their asses.


73 posted on 08/31/2012 7:07:05 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: sayfer bullets

This was erected by one man...I call it freedom of speech and it is one of our god given rights. And it is no where near as bad as what was done to GWB!!!!


74 posted on 08/31/2012 7:10:34 AM PDT by ontap
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To: sayfer bullets
I stop short of supporting blatant disrespect for authority...

Really? When they have blatant disrespect for us and the country?

They're lucky our Founding Fathers aren't still alive. They'd be in a grave by now.

75 posted on 08/31/2012 7:11:22 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Elendur
why are they “entitled” to more money than they put in, That's the way all retirement plans work...only difference is the govt. stole the money.
76 posted on 08/31/2012 7:15:15 AM PDT by ontap
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“Eric Folsom has a young daughter, and he said: ‘If she saw that, she’d say “Why is that little girl doing that? What does that mean?”’ he said. ‘How do I explain that?’”

Poor Mr Folsom. I wonder if he worries about 2nd graders being taught about fisting, oral sex, masturbation, dildos, and putting condoms on banana?

I think I'd rather explain the ‘single finger salute’ that the vile crap they feed them in pubic schools today!

77 posted on 08/31/2012 7:21:23 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: sayfer bullets

They bring a knife, you bring a gun.
They put one of yours in the hospital,
you put one of theirs in the morge...

It’s the Chicago way.


78 posted on 08/31/2012 7:30:17 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: sport; sayfer bullets

Spoken lke a true slave. Where were you when President Bush was being insulted in the vilest of terms minute-by-minute by these same obama worshipping communists?

***

He was busy not disgracing himself, because he knew that people whose only recourse is to insult others, are admitting they are powerless children.

Like this sign we’re talking about. All the child has is insult. Some “adult” put words in her mouth. Right?


79 posted on 08/31/2012 7:32:24 AM PDT by ROTB (Live holy, forgive all & pray in Jesus' name. Trust He is willing & able & eager to ANSWER BIG!)
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To: VRWCarea51

BTW-that is a quote from the movie...Untouchables.


80 posted on 08/31/2012 7:35:39 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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