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Man berating Barack at high-traffic spot
Daily News ^ | 3/5/2009 | Wendy Victora

Posted on 03/06/2009 4:22:52 AM PST by diverteach

Larry Ford said signs will stay up on his property until Obama is out of office March 5, 2009 - 1:26 PM Wendy Victora Daily News

FORT WALTON BEACH - A man who flies a Confederate flag on property he owns on Beal Parkway added two large signs Wednesday to express his feelings about President Barack Obama.

"January 20, 2009, A Day of Darkness, Hussen (sic)" is written on both signs, which are each about the size of a dinner table.

Before the second sign was even in the ground, someone had called the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office to ask a deputy to take a look to make sure the first sign would not "incite something."

Property owner Larry Ford said he put up the signs to share his opinion of Obama, who he refers to as "Hussein."

"We've got a man who shouldn't even be president," Ford said when reached by phone Thursday. "He's an insult to the decent, hard-working people that made this country what it is."

By Thursday night, Ford was featured on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann as the worst person in the world.

Ford said the feedback he'd gotten in the first 24 hours was positive, but he realized there would be those who disagreed with him.

An active-duty military woman who wrote to the Daily News agreeing that the property owner had a constitutional right to express his opinion, but said she was upset that the president's middle name is misspelled.

When that was pointed out to Ford, he wasn't concerned.

"I think everybody knows who I'm talking about, don't you?" he said. "American people are the stupidest people in the world, but something like that I think they can figure out."

Local Democrat Judy Byrne Riley hadn't seen the signs but laughed when she heard about them.

"(Obama) won, get used to it," is the message she said she would send to Ford. "He is your president too, whether you agree with it or not.

"He won fair and square, unlike the election in 2000, when (George W.) Bush didn't win fair and square. And we put up with him for many, many years."

Ford said he will leave the signs up "until we get rid" of Obama.



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1 posted on 03/06/2009 4:22:52 AM PST by diverteach
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To: diverteach

and what’s his FreeRepublic handle??? Which one of you is it? Good job!


2 posted on 03/06/2009 4:24:32 AM PST by Quick Shot
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To: diverteach
"We've got a man who shouldn't even be president," Ford said when reached by phone Thursday. "He's an insult to the decent, hard-working people that made this country what it is."

Go Larry Go!

By Thursday night, Ford was featured on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann as the worst person in the world.

A badge of honor!

3 posted on 03/06/2009 4:25:36 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Quick Shot

I wish I could claim the credit, but I can’t.

Anyways, I would do one myself but I live at the end of a dead end street of conservatives.

However, my flag has been upside down since Nov 5th.


4 posted on 03/06/2009 4:27:39 AM PST by diverteach (http://www.slapobama.com/)
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To: diverteach
He won fair and square

(cough, cough)

5 posted on 03/06/2009 4:29:31 AM PST by bgill
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To: diverteach
The only thing I blame Ford, is for not correcting the misspelled “Hussen”.
6 posted on 03/06/2009 4:29:36 AM PST by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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To: diverteach
but said she was upset that the president's middle name is misspelled.

...and we were dismayed that the current President of these United States thought we had 57 states

7 posted on 03/06/2009 4:30:06 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: diverteach
"(Obama) won, get used to it," is the message she said she would send to Ford. "He is your president too, whether you agree with it or not.

Funny, it sure didn't seem as if the left took that point of view from 2001-2009.

8 posted on 03/06/2009 4:30:50 AM PST by chargers fan (Bring on Next Year!)
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To: diverteach

“A man who flies a Confederate flag on property “

Pick the target, freezi it, personalize it, polarize it.

Go after people as they hurt easier.


9 posted on 03/06/2009 4:34:18 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Quick Shot
and what’s his FreeRepublic handle??? Which one of you is it? Good job!

If Olbermann's drones could find him, I bet we could too. I say that if he's not already a FReeper, he should get an honorary handle!

And what's this liberal derangement on the Bush presidency ascension back in 2000? They STILL hold a gripe? REALLY?! I believe the courts and every other person involved decided that Bush won fair-and-square. I suppose it depends on the side of the aisle from which you view these things.

At least Bush was able to verify his American citizenship. I pray that Barry Soetoro (note that's B.S. initialized) is found to be unsuitable for the post of the presidency. While Biden wouldn't be much better, at least he's principled enough to stand against party leaders.

This whole thing is a sham and a bad dream. I hope we all wake up soon!

10 posted on 03/06/2009 4:35:01 AM PST by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / MOLWN LABE!)
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To: diverteach
Dissent is patriotic.
11 posted on 03/06/2009 4:36:29 AM PST by tobyhill (Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
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To: diverteach

Fly a Gadsden Flag


12 posted on 03/06/2009 4:36:53 AM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: diverteach

> An active-duty military woman who wrote to the Daily News agreeing that the property owner had a constitutional right to express his opinion, but said she was upset that the president’s middle name is misspelled.

This woman just made my day. This was good.


13 posted on 03/06/2009 4:40:40 AM PST by BuffaloJack (To stand up for Capitalism is to hope Obama fails.)
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To: diverteach

“A man who flies a Confederate flag on property he owns”

So?

And that relates to the story *how*, exactly?

Is it somehow worse than Mombasa’s campaign staffers hanging “Che” flags in their office?

When the very first sentence of a story attempts to portray the property owner as some kind of neo-Confederate wacko, the article loses all credibility.

I *took down* my Confederate and 13 star “Betsy Ross” flags after 9-11 and put up a regular US one.
When O’Malley won as governor, the Confederate one went right back up.

[as did a LOT of others in my area]

Go, Larry, go!


14 posted on 03/06/2009 4:40:41 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: diverteach
A man who flies a Confederate flag on property he owns...

The article tries to wreck the credibility of this man in the first phrase of the article. He's obviously a racist with no right to an opinion. Compare this description to the press calling Rodney King a motorist.

15 posted on 03/06/2009 4:41:49 AM PST by stayathomemom (Cat herder and empty nester)
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To: Rebelbase

“By any means necessary.”


16 posted on 03/06/2009 4:42:49 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: diverteach
"He won fair and square,

Ah, but did he?


17 posted on 03/06/2009 4:47:32 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Salamander

I took my flag down the day Obama was Inaugurated, and it wont go back up until he shows his birth certificate.


18 posted on 03/06/2009 4:50:53 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Quick Shot

(He won fair and square,)
Really? This person never heard of ACORN? Has not heard of the Poll Workers arrested for voter fraud? Never watched a MSMnews report during the Presidential Campaign to see that it was basically a Madison Avenue ad for Obama? These morons would not know fair if it bit them on the butt.
Obama is a danger to America and a threat to freedomand liberty. There is nothing these people can say or names they can call me etc. to make me supoport an enemy of my Country...


19 posted on 03/06/2009 4:54:04 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Quick Shot
and what’s his FreeRepublic handle??? Which one of you is it? Good job!

It's the person who keeps posting threads and misspelling words in the title............Their spell checker is broken I think.

20 posted on 03/06/2009 4:54:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun on an Indy car....)
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