Image via Village Voice
7NEWS reports from near Caldwell, Idaho:
An electronic billboard in Idaho comparing President Barack Obama to Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes is drawing sharp criticism nationwide…Above the picture of Holmes, the billboard says: “Kills 12 in movie theater with assault rifle” and then underneath: “Everyone freaks out.”
Above Obama’s photo, it reads: “Kills thousands with his foreign policy” and then below: “Wins Nobel Peace Prize.”
We sat here for a good ten minutes trying to make sense of this enough to ridicule it. After all, it is surely one of the most ridiculous messages we’ve ever seen on a billboard–we weren’t sure it was possible to top those Compass Colorado Obama/Ahmadinejad comparisons. Or was it the Obama-in-a-turban billboard we were thinking of? Perhaps Obama in a turban, gangster suit, sombrero, and gay? Nope! Obama and the Aurora shooter. This one’s got them all beat.
It’s meant to be jab at Obama, but your faith in humanity is what suffers most.
In the second Dark Knight movie, the Joker makes a speech about how society reacts with panic to deaths that don’t follow “the plan.”
If the Joker, a fictional and insane mass murderer, is writing your political messaging, you’ve messed something up along the war.
This billboard sponsor has a sequencing deficiency. Obama won the Noble Peace Prize first, then went on to use American instruments of foreign policy to kill.
are all the rage among Republicans, at least this cycle . . . it’s how Obama can be the cause of their recession, and how Willard could retire at least three years before he left Bain.
I think they motivate
A. Huxley, 1958
in the White House.
There doesn’t seem to be any distinction in evil among the Neanderthal clan.
is they have Obama in one of his endearing smiles.
You would think if he was evil enough to be equated with a mass murderer they could have at last come up with a photo of him scowling.
What a dumb photo selection which would lead me to believe these guys are propaganda rookies. The A-BUTT and Elbee must have been on their selection committee.
given what I’ve seen on other boards, this looks like the work of far-left folks. They’re the only ones I’ve seen talking about foreign policy in these kinds of terms.
From the linked article:
Thanks for the correction. I’m skeptical that a conservative of any shade of red cares about deaths resulting from our foreign policy, but pretending to care is a measure of just how much some of them hate Obama.
is to make it look like Obama enjoys evil and laughs at mass murder.
Every right-thinking American — haven’t you ever been to Idaho? — already knows that President Obama doesn’t “share their values.”
but I get your point that it is a sneering Obama that the paranoids are seeing.
Kind of weird though that they put up a billboard to persuade those who are already convinced. How many truly independent voters are there in Idaho who will look at that billboard and change their mind about the president? Being devote Christians, you would think they would donate the money to the Aurora victims fund and do something truly worthwhile with their money. As it is they are glorifying the shooter and putting his picture up in lights. What a bunch of dirty assholes.
that you still gotta’ keep that choir in line. You wouldn’t want those gals in your alto section to suddenly start voting their economic self-interest.
much of the motivation of most evangelists is a weakness in or a doubt of their message.
When you have no foundation of truth or fact, your resolve lies, in large measure in convincing other hateful, ignorant people you are right.
every member of that religion has a call to evangelize. Different than “proselytize” or “harangue.”
A defining characteristic of a Christian is recognition of one’s weaknesses.
Since someone with Faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain, and no Christian that I know personally has ever actually moved a mountain, I conceded that all or almost all Christians have doubts.
But you are flat out wrong about the basics: every Christian evangelist has a foundation in truth.
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Alternately, if you are referring to those evangelizing on behalf of Humanism, I concede your point.
And more Republicish.
I hate
IllinoisIdaho Nazis.Art Wolfe’s work. (They used car guy who posted the birther board in front of his business in 2008.)
I see Art’s billboard space has been vacated of the completely unreadable screed “on the Constitution” and stands empty. Perhaps he’s gone out consulting?
weird that ArapaGOP isn’t commenting here. Let’s hear a rationalization of an explanation of how this makes sense.
1. Romney is on the move, which means that the Borg is occupied with their etch-a-sketch elsewhere.
2. ArapaGOP isn’t getting paid to shill for Idaho . . . yet.
3. Even A-GOP has a problem with this level of craven stupidity.
For Osama Bin Laden and other America haters.