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Bear-Hugging Pizzeria Owner Feel Boycott After Obama Visit
Newsmax ^ | 9-10-12 | Patrick Hobin

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2012; oprah
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1 posted on 09/11/2012 3:57:28 PM PDT by kingattax
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“There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”

Your Democrat pals started it with Bush, pal.

2 posted on 09/11/2012 3:58:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: kingattax

Life lessons....


3 posted on 09/11/2012 3:59:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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>> Scott Van Duzer, 46, told Politico. “There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”

The idiot is bashing his customers.


4 posted on 09/11/2012 4:01:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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You’re the one who met with Obama at the WH before the event. It was obviously a staged event and gave you your 15 minutes of fame. Now you’re seeing exactly what that fame is worth. I hope you understand, you did it to yourself. I don’t give a rat’s a$$ what impact it has on your business.


5 posted on 09/11/2012 4:01:20 PM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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“There’s no middle line anymore..."

If you think that Øbama represents the "middle line" you are too stupid to run a pizza parlor.

6 posted on 09/11/2012 4:02:31 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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7 posted on 09/11/2012 4:02:39 PM PDT by fso301
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"People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Scott Van Duzer, 46, told Politico.

I guess he knows how the owners of his nearby Chic-Fil-A felt about a month ago.
It's always funny to hear liberals cry when they get boycotted.

8 posted on 09/11/2012 4:02:51 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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Had to be scripted in advance and the Obama dupe had to have been screened to the nth degree... otherwise the Secret Service would never have let the guy get so physical with the POS POTUS.

Let the willing dupe squirm for being part of the ongoing fraud!

9 posted on 09/11/2012 4:03:38 PM PDT by drpix
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Since Great Leader is so popular and leading in the polling I would imagine the surge in new business will offset any boycott. Unless Great Leader’s supporters are waiting for the government pizza vouchers. Those are slated for the second term so I hope this guy can hold out. Then again, it shouldn’t be a problem since he knows he didn’t build that. The roads and bridges will be along to help him any day now.


10 posted on 09/11/2012 4:03:45 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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Duzer rhymes with .........

That was a creepy man hug.

11 posted on 09/11/2012 4:04:00 PM PDT by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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“There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”

This guy is too stupid to get too mad at.

There IS no middle line anymore, either you are part of the effort to take down this country or you're against it. There's nothing good about being ambivalent.

12 posted on 09/11/2012 4:04:26 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: kingattax

You get what you vote for.


13 posted on 09/11/2012 4:05:36 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: dfwgator

Right you are, my FRiend.


14 posted on 09/11/2012 4:07:17 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: kingattax

So where are all the Obama supporters running in to buy pizza from Mr. middle line pizza man? Hug this.


15 posted on 09/11/2012 4:08:29 PM PDT by mom.mom
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To: AD from SpringBay

I don’t think you can buy his pizza with food stamps and welfare checks!


16 posted on 09/11/2012 4:09:19 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: kingattax

Sorry, but I have to agree with the guy. He hasn’t done anything deserving of a boycott.


17 posted on 09/11/2012 4:09:48 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: kingattax

I just looked up dipshit and it has a picture of Van Duzer


18 posted on 09/11/2012 4:10:12 PM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: kingattax

HA HA HA!


19 posted on 09/11/2012 4:10:12 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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Hey Mr. Duzer, repeat after me: free as-so-see-ay-shun

That, and your pizza probably sucks commie a$$.


20 posted on 09/11/2012 4:10:17 PM PDT by workerbee (June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
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