Billboard Stirs Controversy
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — Call it Freedom of Speech. Fox31 is reporting that a billboard recently erected in Wheat Ridge compares Barack Obama to a terrorist and questions his citizenship status.
The billboard, located at 4855 Miller Road, shows two cartoonish images of Obama wearing a Muslim turban and reads “PRESIDENT or JIHAD?”
It also says “BIRTH CERTIFICATE — PROVE IT!” alluding to the questions surrounding his birth that would disqualify him for the office of President.
The words “WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!” appear on the bottom of the billboard.
“Since Fort Hood, I’ve had it,” car dealer Phil West told FOX 31 News Friday. “You can’t suggest things. You can’t profile. You gotta call a spade a spade.”
The Anti-Defamation League condemned the sign, as did progressive radio host David Sirota (AM760), who discussed the sign and interviewed West on his program Friday morning.
“It’s out of control,” Sirota said. “This conservative hatred of Barack Obama is out of control, and this brings together all those strands of it: the racism, the anti-Muslim fervor. It’s one thing to criticize the president on health care, or Wall Street reform, or immigration. But this is outrageous. And I think it’s a fair question to ask why these questions about religion and ancestry are being directed so viciously at the first African-American President of the United States.”
While the ADL issued a statement calling the billboard an exploitation of the Ft. Hood shootings that is “divisive and offensive, and perpetuates hateful and harmful stereotypes about Muslims,” prominent conservatives have been silent thus far.
“That could suggest that conservative leaders are afraid to confront the extreme fringe of their base,” Sirota said. “Or it suggests they actually condone this message. Either way, it’s disturbing.”
“I can’t honestly say he’s a Jihadist, but there’s a lot of things that are questionable,” Walters said. “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.”
Supporters of the birth certificate theory, known as Birthers, have demonstrated the Certification of Live Birthproduced by the state of Hawaii is counterfeit.
Sirota contends “that conservative leaders are afraid to confront the extreme fringe of their base” — I have a flash for Sirota, as more and more people come to understand Obama’s far-left agenda and mysterious background, they question his eligibility. The “fringe” is now composed of a huge segment of the American population — and it is growing.
An October 23rd item reported that three-in-ten Americans think their current head of state was not born in the United States, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. That’s almost a third of all Americans.
Now, Goddard’s Political Wire points to a new Public Policy Polling survey in Arkansas shows that only 45% of voters in the state say they believe Obama was born in this country, while 31% say they think he was not and 24% are unsure.
“Arkansas is the first of four states where we’ve polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado were the others) and found less than half of respondents confident that Obama is a natural born citizen. The numbers are particularly dramatic among Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not born here to just 23% who grant that he was.”
And it’s Obama’s own actions that have caused many Americans to have these questions. FReeper TigersEye lists just a few:
• Trying to curb criticism of Nidal Malik Hasan (mmmm mmmm mmmm)
• Staunchly refusing to call the Ft. Hood massacre a terrorist act
• Scheduling a civilian trial of KSM in NYC
• The “reach around for a Muslim” Cairo speech
• Bowing to a Saudi King
• Millions of dollars to Hamas so they can pay big bucks for kidnapping Israeli soldiers
• Ordering the Israelis to stop building settlements
• Inability to make a decision on Afghanistan
• Closing GITMO
• Moving terrorists to Illinois
• Calling the U.S. a “Muslim country” while in Europe
• Hiring several devout Muslims with ties to radical Muslims for security posts
• Establishing back channel ties with the Taliban
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An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
I THINK THIS IS THE GREATEST, IF HE WAS A LEGAL CITIZEN, HE WOULD SHOW HIS DOCUMENTS, HE IS AN ILLEGAL MUSLIM AND NOW PART OF THE WORLD IS COMING TO REALIZE THIS. IF HE GETS THAT ONE OFF THAT KILLED THE 14 IN FORT HOOD, THIS WILL BE ONE MORE NAIL IN THE FACT THAT HE IS MUSLIM. HE SAID HE WAS BORN IN KENYA ON A VIDEO YOU PLAYED HERE. WHAT DOES IT TAKE, MAYBE IF THE ACORN THUGS WOULD LEAVE THE ORDINARY CITIZENS ALONE, MAYBE THAT WOULD HELP, BUT MOST AS I AM, ARE A BIT AFRAID OF THE VIOLENCE. PRAYER FOR THE ILLEGAL MUSLIM PSALM 109;8 AND I WILL CLOSE WITH GOD BLESS AMERICA, PLEASE JESUS
Now I’m sadden by the gaping wound on America. She bleeding to death now. WE are a heart beat a way from dieing as a once great nation.
Oh, how my heart yearns for my country. The pains are server that the serpents have put on her. As the blood pours from her wounds he heart beats ever so faint. She is dieing my brothers and sisters she lay dieing.
What will happen now you may ask?
Is your country not worth saving?
Is not your anger great?
Are you ready to do whats right?
Can America stand another attack?
The Love of American ways are you not troubled enough to stand?
Are do you just piss in the wind and hope for the best?
Who’s fault is it ?
Is it not ours?
Are You just a keyboard fighter and type away your anger?
Are you a Coward and or too chicken to fight?
Has your comfort zones in front your TV watch every sports and unholy thing under the sun?
Have we become too lazy to do anything?
Would you rather have the serpents come and carry you away?
I’m an American Christian Cajun Patriot ready to stand for war. Anger can not describe what I’m feeling right now. You sit back in your comfort zones and have the nerve to call yourself Patriots.
This is not meant for the real true Patriots here. I know who you are. And I thank you for standing and being accountable
for that. This is for the ones that call themselves Patriots but will not do anything at all about it. You don’t deserve the title of Patriot. I call you out as I see it according to God’s word. You are cowards who hide behind in the shadows and your make believe world.
God’s wrath will soon fall on you. And the true Patriots will rise to the top. We are the warriors in this holy war. Jesus is in front leading the charge. Time to get moving and calling out Patriots.
The signal flames have been lit what will you do?
Are you ready?
Or will you still sit there and become a FEMA CAMP fixture?
I’m ready to put my life on the line for my country! Are You?
I stand in Wait!
Lynn Dartez
P.S. Don’t answer on this post unless you mean business. Time for excuses are over. War is thrust upon us. WE have just begun.