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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The middle line is the front line. And everyone knows which side he's on.
What does he expect---Obama's brown shirts to herd customers over from Chick fil A at the point of a bayonet?
Not during the election season...
After seeing the picture of the hug...
It’s a good thing Obama wore his brown pants!
Weightlifter chick definitely gets the award for most pounds lifted. Doesn’t the story say Baraq is estimated at 170?
I’d guess bubble@ss is 10 or 15 more than him.
So this was a set up or the SS didn’t care if obama got body slammed.
Wanna bet The Kenyan got a tingle down his leg?
I think that he is lying also, he seems to be skilled at self promotion, and is milking this.
If you don't like the politics of this pizza guy, then just don't go. Announcing and encouraging a boycott could very well backfire.
LOL
For me it was when the senate democrats Borked Robert Bork, and the press cheered when Reagan was shot.
Maybe. Maybe not. But that is free speech just as much as DUzer's actions. I haven't seen anyone suggest he doesn't or shouldn't have the right to promote 0bungles or tell this lie about being boycotted.
How could he possibly see a business trend in 18 hours? How many of those hours was he even open? Whining about a boycott was probably planned a couple of months ago right along with the planning for 0bummer’s “spontaneous” visit. lol
I think it goes all the way back to Watergate.
This will be used to negate the public opinion problems that the left experienced due to their boycott of Chick-fil-A. Don’t fall for it, don’t publicize or encourage it. If you’re local then just don’t patronize the place, if his politics disturb you. Quietly.
+1
Plus no conservative even thought of a boycott, a boycott because the restaurant owner hugged the president?
When I fist saw his claim the word leaped out at me, boycott? huh? who? what for? it rang completely false to my ear.
We are part of the segment of the populace that would be creating, or supporting the boycott, when we all are puzzled by the very idea of a boycott, then something isn’t kosher with his claim.
Hugging, touching and fawning over obama-the-muslim exudes a creepy-dirty contamination. I wouldn’t want him making my pizza. It’s too bad but he should have known better. He’s become the poster child for “Oh no, shouldn’t have done that”.
——Sorry, but I have to agree with the guy. He hasn’t done anything deserving of a boycott.——
He actively used his business to support Obama’s presidential campaign. He sure doesn’t deserve my money.
I'm sorry I don't buy that. For starters the leftist press isn't going to give this coverage.
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