Posted on 08/12/2010 7:53:29 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Operators of a Jersey Shore boardwalk game have removed a mannequin representing President Barack Obama.
It has been replaced by effigies of former President George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton.
"It’s just to show we’re not anti-Democrat or anti-Republican," Tommy Whalen told The Star-Ledger. He's the manager of Lucky Leo’s where the "Walkin Charlie" game debuted this summer.
The game requires patrons to throw baseballs at plates held by the rotating caricatures.
A plastic bag -- pink -- was placed over the Obama character's head after some people earlier this week said it was disrespectful to use the president's likeness.
Whalen says a Secret Service agent visited the Seaside Heights concession on Wednesday and told him none of his employees had urged patrons to throw at or hurt Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
Anything but Obama because then it's racist, I suppose!
Of course it is OK to disrespect one president but not another.
Operator of the game is gutless.
For some religions, it is blasphemous to show the messiah’s likeness.
Ping for later
So it is OK to “threaten” the Sec of State and a former Prez? So just about any speech is OK unless it involves any hostility, no matter how slight, against some? This is nuts in so many ways.
The Secret Service protects past presidents as well as the current president.
So if the request to protect Obama came from the Secret Service, why wouldn’t there be equal protection for Bush?
White effigies ok. Black effigies not allowed. Simple message.
Google Image search of “Bush effigy” returns 793 images of effigies of Dubya, many of them on fire.
No body ever said a word.
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