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Halloween Display Casts McCain as KKK member
Fingerlakes1.com News of the Finger Lakes ^
| 10/14/08
Posted on 10/14/2008 8:26:40 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
CATHARINE, NY -- Ron Havens has a reputation for provocative Halloween displays that reflect his strong political views.
Havens, who lives on Schuyler County Route 15 (Ridge Road) just south of Odessa, this week set up a Halloween display featuring mannequins that look like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain.
But the Obama figure looks like he is running, and the McCain likeness is dressed in the hooded robe of the Ku Klux Klan and is carrying a baseball bat.
Havens is quick to point out he is a liberal and a big supporter of Obama, and that the scene is meant to provoke thought about the way he believes Obama has been unfairly treated by the McCain campaign.
The display is in Havens' front lawn, only a few yards from the highway.
Two years ago, Havens set up a display with a Wizard of Oz theme, with President Bush as the Scarecrow, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as Dorothy, Vice President Dick Cheney as the Tin Man and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld representing the Cowardly Lion.
During the 2004 presidential race between Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Bush took on the persona of Dracula in Havens' front lawn, while Kerry appeared as Frankenstein's monster, complete with neck bolts.
Georgia Verdier, president of the Elmira-Corning Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she was concerned about the injection of race into the presidential campaign when someone called her to complain about the scene.
After viewing a photograph of Havens' display, Verdier said it seems innocuous enough, but she's still concerned it may send the wrong message.
Havens said he has no plans to take the display down at this time.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2008; appallingdems; comicrelief; democrats; dncbrownshirts; dnctalkingpoints; houmor; kkk; leftists; nobama08; ny2008; shitaintfunnie; shureitis
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ron Havens has a reputation for provocative Halloween displays that reflect his strong political views.
In other words he's an attention whore.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:29:12 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ah, the old “Cast a Republican as a KKK Member” ploy...Very original...Only slightly less popular than the “Liken a Republican to Hitler” ploy. Leftists are so creative.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:29:29 AM PDT
by
opus86
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Georgia Verdier, president of the Elmira-Corning Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she was concerned about the injection of race into the presidential campaignWelcome to the party, pal!
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:30:34 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
If this “display” is just off the highway, maybe someone could accidentally lose control of their car and CRASH.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:30:50 AM PDT
by
ninergold3
(By Election Day I'll Be An Anorexic/Alcoholic. . .Stress Sucks!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
That guy has it backwards.
B. Hussein’s political party is the only one which has elected an ACTUAL Klan member as a Senator.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:31:10 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
To: opus86
Abraham Lincoln, scorned again.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:31:40 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Wish it was Palin/McCain)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
So my Barack “Grim Reaper” is not out of bounds?
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:31:42 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
((10/9/08) McCain said would "perp - walk" both Frank and Dodd.........)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Wonder what his DU screen name is.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:31:47 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
My Obama costume...
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:35:22 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
dems are so sophisticated.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:35:30 AM PDT
by
central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: opus86
Ah, the old “Cast a Republican as a KKK Member” ploy...Very original...Only slightly less popular than the “Liken a Republican to Hitler” ploy. Leftists are so creative.Yup The KKK was (is) A DEMOCRAT organization (isn't it Mr Byrd)
The Nazi Party was the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" - hardly right wing..
But then facts have never troubled liberal morons.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:36:07 AM PDT
by
Wil H
(No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume, No Records, No References, Nobama..)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Yet last Halloween it was deemed racist if your Halloween display contained a noose.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:37:27 AM PDT
by
Joiseydude
(Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
To: WayneS
"Funny, I haven't seen McCain at any of the meetings. Damn hoods."
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:38:40 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Wish it was Palin/McCain)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:39:27 AM PDT
by
kimchi lover
(Just another non-racist not voting for Obama)
To: Wil H
I just visited the Holocaust Museum for the 1st time a couple weeks ago. I was surprised to be informed there (a short video) that the Nazi party was "right wing."
That was a new one to me.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:40:53 AM PDT
by
PLK
To: PLK
Oops, meant to make it clear I was responding to the following post:
The Nazi Party was the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" - hardly right wing.
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posted on
10/14/2008 8:42:02 AM PDT
by
PLK
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Havens is quick to point out he is a liberal and a big supporter of Obama... No kidding. With an IQ like that how could he be anything but?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
This is slander. Plain and simple. Repugnant slander.
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posted on
10/14/2008 9:00:54 AM PDT
by
weegee
(In 2006 the Democrats took over Congress. 9% approval, $4gal gas, economy tanked. Had enuff CHANGE?!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
He must be out of Senator Byrd (D-KKK) masks:
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posted on
10/14/2008 9:01:57 AM PDT
by
weegee
(In 2006 the Democrats took over Congress. 9% approval, $4gal gas, economy tanked. Had enuff CHANGE?!)
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