Empty chair 'lynchings': Anti-Obama protests gone too far? (It's a "chair"!)

nbc ^ | 9/20/2012 | By James Eng

[tobyhill]

At least two recent incidents in which empty chairs were hung from trees by rope have critics decrying what they say are racially offensive displays meant to symbolize the “lynching” of President Barack Obama.

In Austin, Texas, a homeowner hung an empty folding chair from a tree branch in front of his house and later attached an American flag to it. He reportedly told a Democratic political blogger who inquired about it: “You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you.”

In Centreville, Va., an empty chair with a sign reading “Nobama” was strung from a tree in or near a park. “In short, this appears to be a crude metaphor for the lynching of President Obama,” wrote the blogger who posted the photo.

[GOYAKLA]

ABC,James Eng, STUPID RABBIT, it was a “White Chair” and everyone knows Pres—dent Obama is Black!

[Kudsman]

Lol. No wonder it’s down, it is one of those flimsy chairs. Check out the pin flag just below the word ONE. Stiff breeze blew em over.

[ETL]

Some folks stand on empty chairs when they hang themselves.

[Kudsman]

Probably made in China to boot.

[1035rep]

I’m game :)

[smokingfrog]

If you want to hang 0bama in effigy, you’ll have to go to Pock-E-stan.

[hosepipe]

Its not called lynching when he’s tried and hanged for treason and sedition.. among other equally nasty crimes..

It’s called hanging, by the neck till room temperature..
At least Bin Laden was not a traitor... to the US...

[TomGuy]

racially offensive

Yawwwwwwwwwwwwn!

[1035rep]

He’s such a wus it didn’t take much.

[eeevil conservative]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

so if we burn the flag with the big O in place of our stars, or stand on it.......does that make us patriotic, kinda like Bill Ayers and gang??????

[1035rep]

“If you want to hang 0bama in effigy, you’ll have to go to Pock-E-stan.”

Has anyone figured out where that place is? Could it be our 57th state?

[RedMDer]

[GBA]

Don't bother us with such trivialities until they surpass what was done to Sarah Palin and her family.

If you at nbc didn't find any of what was done to her and her family offensive, why are your panties in a twist over an empty chair swinging in the wind?

[aquila48]

How about this idea for an empty chair ad?

An empty chair “watching” as the ambassador to Lybia gets murdered.

One of the big criticism of the Bush administration was that they failed to “connect the dots”. Lybia wasn’t just a failure of connecting the dots. It was a case of being dragged to the murder scene and refusing to open your eyes!!

WHERE THE HELL IS THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN THAT DOESN’T YELL THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS??

[gorush]

Hillary certainly implied that it does. :{)

[TADSLOS]

One of the big criticism of the Bush administration was that they failed to “connect the dots”. Lybia wasn’t just a failure of connecting the dots. It was a case of being dragged to the murder scene and refusing to open your eyes

It's much worse than merely failing to see and acknowledge. At best, it's willful negligence to protect Americans working in a known terror state. At worst, it's a constructed triggering event to set more nefarious Obama executive order policies into motion.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Obama is only 7% black. He’s 43% Arab and 50% white. So it is only 7% racist, at most.

[Craftmore]

https://store.barackobama.com/obama-2012-store-collections/artists-for-obama/our-stripes-flag-print.html

[Iron Munro]

Racist device placed in school playgrounds by white school boards with the goal of
intimidating small, innocent black children.

[TheDon]

Hmmmm...was the rope tied around the chair’s neck?