Posted on 09/11/2012 3:57:22 PM PDT by kingattax
Pizza and politics may not mix, at least a restaurant owner photographed bear-hugging President Obama.
Scott Van Duzer, the owner of the Florida pizza shop, struck fame for a photograph of him lifting President Barack Obama off the floor with a bear hug at his Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Fort Pierce in Sunday during a last-minute visit from the Commander-in-Chief.
The photograph made the front pages of newspapers around the country and the image was an Internet sensation at warp speed.
The good will was short-lived for Van Duzer though. He told Politico that people are boycotting his business because of the famous presidential hug.
“People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Scott Van Duzer, 46, told Politico. “There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”
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There is no boycott. The entire thing was made up:
1. To show Obama is a normal regular type of guy who is loved by small business owners, contrary to what Republicans put forth in their convention.
2. For the Pizza shop owner, he hopes that a supposed boycott will generate a Chic-Fil-A windfall of support and make his struggling pizza shop famous.
One bright spot in a screen full of bad news.
Good rule for a small business - don't alienate half your customers unless you don't need their business.
Maybe some people don't want to spend their money to enrich a business owner who supports or enables a politician they have serious disagreements with
Nothing personal but they might prefer supporting business owners of like mind and temperment.
I agree with you, but Mr Van Duzer indicated by his statement that he knows he is living in politically charged times. And knowing that, his actions were, at the very least, ill advised.
... so says the registered Democrat retired government worker who is a resident of northern California, lol?
Wrong. You know what you can do with your opinion.
Moochelle doesn't allow children or lefties to eat pizza. This guy is screwed.
He didn't HAVE TO hug Dick Obama, the Great Destroyer.
“People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Scott Van Duzer, 46, told Politico.
Mommy, mommy, he’s looking at me!!!
Let this episode be a lesson to the next business owner tool of Obama....
“I’d guess bubble@ss is 10 or 15 more than him.”
pounds or tons?
As a business owner he must know the "You didn't build that" crap is just that. Unless everything he says is just that.
BTW - alienating half of your customer base is just out and out stupid.
Now strangely he's had a trip to the White House, sets up a Photo Op of a REPUBLICAN supporting Obama, clearly for political purposes and claims he'll vote for Obama again.
Maybe this is why we came up with the term "RINO".
With our Tea Party awakening its open season on RINOS. Watch out! ;-)
He’s free to say whatever he wants, and we’re free to boycott.
Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom from the consequences.
But, maybe not. So, certainly, go right ahead and do whatever you want to do. You're entitled to do it. Just don't be surprised when you're beaten over the head with it by the very people you think you're opposing by doing so.
Hey obammy supporters F YOU.
I do not have to go to your places of bid ness
And i won’t just as i won’t see a movie with the likes of clooney
Similar to the dixie chicks boycott,
I am still free to spend my money where i care to
If i were to go in this pizza joint and see a poster of
this clown hoisting up the magic negro i may get sick
If only Mr. Doucher had picked Lord 0bama up by his jug ears.
I am aware that this guy holds fund raisers for anything and everything needed in the community. That is non-partisan. The minute he crossed that line and made the statement that he's a republican who will be voting for Obama, he made himself fair game. I suggest he petition his precious Obama for permission to accept food stamps. If he doesn't, he'll have shot himself in the foot and hopefully, learned a valuable albeit painful, lesson.
Voting with your feet is not the same as declaring a boycott.
Did anyone hear Van Duzer supporting Chik Fil A?
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