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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I respectfully disagree. ONe of the things that is wrong with our country is that people's lives have become too permeated with their politics.
The Chick Fil A lovers are coming home to roost!!
The guy is supporting the man who will destroy this country... And he wants those who oppose Obama to chill out and buy his pizza? Screw him. He can pound sand. Pizza shops are a dime a dozen.
Who needs polls! Real life gives the situation definition.
LOL, Rob, eaten at Chick-Fil-A lately???
Obama would have preferred a bare hug.
I’ve been watching this story, reading about the Yelps and boycott, and I’ve come to the conclusion this is A Total Crock of $hit. Not happening, folks.
18 hours after 0bungle’s visit and this DUzer sees a boycott happening? Who did that business analysis for him? 0bama?
The guy wanted free publicity and he got it. Screw him if people make a choice.
Was it an organized boycott? I mean, I wouldn’t give him any of my money any more than I do anyone who gives to planned parenthood, or OB for that matter.
Maybe folks just don’t want to go there and see him.
Plus, now he has cooties, right?
No, that’s the only thing that’s right with our country.
Compromise, and the squishy middle are killing us.
I’d have no problem if he simply respected the office of the President....but he had to say he was a “registered Republican” who was voting for Obama....he went into the arena, and if you’re in the arena there will be consequences.
Horse Hockey, Radar!
Obama supporters will come in droves as long as this idiot, moron gives them free pizza!!! People that work for a living in Port St. Lucie ain’t going to be showing up to this “Obama” dirt bag’s pizza shop!!! Actions have consequences, and...this fool’s actions have destroyed his business!!!
He is lying about being boycotted. What is that deserving of?
If you dislike his politics enough to avoid his establishment then just don’t go. Announcing and encouraging the boycott of a business over a politically charged photo reeks of leftist tactics. It’s negative and punitive, as opposed to the Chick-fil-A “buycott.” This could very well backfire, the boycott advocates are putting themselves in the same position as the gay marriage crowd, opposing free speech.
Sorry, but I have to agree with the guy. He hasn’t done anything deserving of a boycott.
I hope a couple of cock roaches or bed bugs jumped out of obama’s pants cuff or jacket and hopefully breed, multiply and infest the pizza joint. Then, have the city health dept inspectors come around for their annual inspection.
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