A billboard in Colorado is causing considerable controversy and gives an insight into the radical fringe of America. The billboard by car dealership owner Phil West in Wheat Ridge, Colorado combines the “birther” controversy with the suggestion that Obama is both a Muslim and a terrorist. It further makes the bizarre connection to Fort Hood — suggesting that Obama could at any time go on a shooting spree in the West Wing.
The billboard shown above included a cartoon of Obama wearing a Muslim turban and reads “PRESIDENT or JIHAD?” It also says “WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!”
West sees nothing wrong in such a message. He insisted in one interview “You can’t suggest things. You can’t profile. You gotta call a spade a spade.”
He further adds (while dancing on the edge of sanity) “[e]verything I have read about Mr. Obama points right to the fact that he is a Muslim. And that is the agenda of what Muslim is all about. It’s about anti-American, it’s about anti-Christianity.” People buy cars from this man.
My favorite quote, however, comes from passing motorist Keith Walters: “I can’t honestly say he’s a Jihadist, but there’s a lot of things that are questionable. The whole birth certificate controversy. From what I’ve read, there’s no proof Obama isn’t a Muslim. And I don’t believe there’s any racism [in the billboard]. I think that should be a question asked to any president who — they have some questionable backgrounds.”
I love the use of “proving the negative.” The sign is legitimate because “there’s no proof Obama isn’t a Muslim.” There’s no proof that he is not the Anti-Christ or the Second Coming either.
By the way, Obama makes a terrible Muslim. He smokes, drinks, attends Church, fails to observe any Islamic holidays, raises his children as Christians, and eats pork. Pat Robertson would make a better Muslim.
It is moments like this that one wonders how we succeeded in forming a nation of self-government, let alone acquired nuclear weapons.
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Bot President Obama’s personal attorney, now White House counsel defended him for free. Even though the law firm recieved 1.4 mil. none of it was for the defense of any of those cases. He was paid back for doing it for free with a promotion to White House counsel. Now the taxpayer is on the hook.
I don’t get overly shocked at the expression of free speech, I do have a big issue with protesting in a foul manner at funerals and so forth, but a bill board is a somewhat different.
Civil society has ways of dealing with things like this …provided a civil society is allowed to exist.
“As political society–government–grows, civil society retreats.” -CATO Institute
After all:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” -attributed to Voltaire.
Bot: “And he’s spent $1.4 million to hide his school and univeristy, draft, thesis, and original birth certificate.”
Another lie by another troll, with no supporting evidence whatsoever. There is no substance to this charge.
Flip,
Bot’s most honest moment was in choosing his handle.
Hey, Bot… see (my) #1 post. Liar.
I had a great conversation with a relative during the election, it went something like this:
“Obama’s a Muslim.”
“That’s not true, but even if it is, so what?”
“Well we can’t elect a Muslim, that’d be UnAmerican”
“Article VI section 3 says you’re wrong.”
“What?”
I very rarely let myself get drawn into those kind of conversations at family functions, but they had me corned and no-one else was around.
And he’s spent $1.4 million to hide his school and univeristy, draft, thesis, and original birth certificate. Who would spend that kind of money, if they didn’t have something to hide?
So, his father and his step-father were Muslims, his mother an atheist. He worshiped at an anti-American, Black power “church” for 20 years and didn’t find Rev. Wright’s sermons “unsettling”.
Frank the Hawaiian Communist was his tutor, and he’s surrounded himself with anti-American, socialist and communists. (He says, you’ll know his policies by the people with which he surrounds himself.)
He bows before anti-Americans, and has NEVER expressed support for historical Christianty or the U.S. Consitution. He supports judicial appointments which want to user their power to amend the Constitution.
What more evidence do you need?
Bdaman,
I’m sorry, but this is not the place and today I don’t have the time to debate you on global warming (or more accurately, climate change). Why don’t you take the time and go see a glacier before they’re all gone?
Mike A,
Wrong part of Colorado. Colorado Springs is insanely Conservative, and the rural areas are… rural. Wheat Ridge on the other hand is a suburb of Denver. You’d be surprised what a constant influx of West Coast Urbanites, Yippies (Yuppies nee Hippies), and adrenaline junkies will do to the politics of the area.
So, where do you stand on this proposition?
Nice to 2CU2 thanks for the comment.
Slart minus the e-mails you cant get by the fact of
No warming last ten years
Worldwide Tropical Cyclone activity at an all time low
October the 3rd coolest on record
On and On and On. The e-mails just prove it’s political and Junk Science plain and simple. Now look at the polls of how many believe in the junk science.
How apt that bdaman returns in this thread. A bigoted liar returns to defend a fellow bigot car dealer. What do they have in common:
All car dealers lie and so does bdaman the troll.
This is an excellent interview which I highly recommend. It’s on, The Family. It will explain much concerning the removal of abortion coverage from health care, the connection between once old enemies, fundies and catholics, the AIDS law in Uganda and how truly bat shit crazy our elites really are. It will be available at 3 p.m. EST. It is by Terry Gross with Jeff Sharlet on. “The Family”. It’s really no wonder why things are so bad.
“You may recognize these names from recent headlines: Sen. John Ensign, Rep. Bart Stupak and Rep. Joe Pitts. Stupak and Pitts have become familiar names through the media’s health-care overhaul coverage; their abortion-funding amendment introduced an 11th-hour twist as the House of Representatives approached a vote on a landmark health-care bill.
Ensign was the focus of media attention over his affair with a campaign staffer last year. Just last night, a Nevada man disclosed that he found out about his wife’s affair with the state’s junior senator — his best friend — via a text message.
The common factor among these political players is their involvement with the Family, a secretive fellowship of powerful Christian politicians that centers on a Washington, D.C. townhouse. Investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet has written extensively about the influential group in his book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.
Sharlet returns to Fresh Air today to talk with host Terry Gross to talk about Ensign, Stupak and Pitts, and about new developments concerning the Family.
Since 2003, Sharlet has been an associate research scholar at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, where he has taught graduate seminars in journalism and the history of American religion. He has also spoken on religion, politics, and media at colleges and universities across the country. At NYU, Sharlet created TheRevealer.org, a review of religion and the media.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120746516
A double entendre that functions as both noun and adjective.
Bdaman,
Scat.
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Could we please stay on topic this is about the bill board.
How’d I do Vince.
Vince,
They did not let anyone not seized of land vote for that matter. Then along came the 13, 14, and 15th amendment giving “All” the right to vote but white females. Utah women had that right but lost it when they joined the union.
Another interesting tidbit is a US Rep from Montana was elected to office to fill her deceased husband place. She could vote in DC but could not vote to elect herself to the office she held. Makes sense to me.
Blouise, … and they did not let women vote….
… except for the 3/5’s rule