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Man berating Barack at high-traffic spot
Daily News ^ | 3/5/2009 | Wendy Victora

Posted on 03/06/2009 4:22:52 AM PST by diverteach

Larry Ford said signs will stay up on his property until Obama is out of office March 5, 2009 - 1:26 PM Wendy Victora Daily News

FORT WALTON BEACH - A man who flies a Confederate flag on property he owns on Beal Parkway added two large signs Wednesday to express his feelings about President Barack Obama.

"January 20, 2009, A Day of Darkness, Hussen (sic)" is written on both signs, which are each about the size of a dinner table.

Before the second sign was even in the ground, someone had called the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office to ask a deputy to take a look to make sure the first sign would not "incite something."

Property owner Larry Ford said he put up the signs to share his opinion of Obama, who he refers to as "Hussein."

"We've got a man who shouldn't even be president," Ford said when reached by phone Thursday. "He's an insult to the decent, hard-working people that made this country what it is."

By Thursday night, Ford was featured on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann as the worst person in the world.

Ford said the feedback he'd gotten in the first 24 hours was positive, but he realized there would be those who disagreed with him.

An active-duty military woman who wrote to the Daily News agreeing that the property owner had a constitutional right to express his opinion, but said she was upset that the president's middle name is misspelled.

When that was pointed out to Ford, he wasn't concerned.

"I think everybody knows who I'm talking about, don't you?" he said. "American people are the stupidest people in the world, but something like that I think they can figure out."

Local Democrat Judy Byrne Riley hadn't seen the signs but laughed when she heard about them.

"(Obama) won, get used to it," is the message she said she would send to Ford. "He is your president too, whether you agree with it or not.

"He won fair and square, unlike the election in 2000, when (George W.) Bush didn't win fair and square. And we put up with him for many, many years."

Ford said he will leave the signs up "until we get rid" of Obama.



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1 posted on 03/06/2009 4:22:52 AM PST by diverteach
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To: diverteach

and what’s his FreeRepublic handle??? Which one of you is it? Good job!


2 posted on 03/06/2009 4:24:32 AM PST by Quick Shot
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To: diverteach
"We've got a man who shouldn't even be president," Ford said when reached by phone Thursday. "He's an insult to the decent, hard-working people that made this country what it is."

Go Larry Go!

By Thursday night, Ford was featured on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann as the worst person in the world.

A badge of honor!

3 posted on 03/06/2009 4:25:36 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Quick Shot

I wish I could claim the credit, but I can’t.

Anyways, I would do one myself but I live at the end of a dead end street of conservatives.

However, my flag has been upside down since Nov 5th.


4 posted on 03/06/2009 4:27:39 AM PST by diverteach (http://www.slapobama.com/)
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To: diverteach
He won fair and square

(cough, cough)

5 posted on 03/06/2009 4:29:31 AM PST by bgill
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To: diverteach
The only thing I blame Ford, is for not correcting the misspelled “Hussen”.
6 posted on 03/06/2009 4:29:36 AM PST by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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To: diverteach
but said she was upset that the president's middle name is misspelled.

...and we were dismayed that the current President of these United States thought we had 57 states

7 posted on 03/06/2009 4:30:06 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: diverteach
"(Obama) won, get used to it," is the message she said she would send to Ford. "He is your president too, whether you agree with it or not.

Funny, it sure didn't seem as if the left took that point of view from 2001-2009.

8 posted on 03/06/2009 4:30:50 AM PST by chargers fan (Bring on Next Year!)
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To: diverteach

“A man who flies a Confederate flag on property “

Pick the target, freezi it, personalize it, polarize it.

Go after people as they hurt easier.


9 posted on 03/06/2009 4:34:18 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Quick Shot
and what’s his FreeRepublic handle??? Which one of you is it? Good job!

If Olbermann's drones could find him, I bet we could too. I say that if he's not already a FReeper, he should get an honorary handle!

And what's this liberal derangement on the Bush presidency ascension back in 2000? They STILL hold a gripe? REALLY?! I believe the courts and every other person involved decided that Bush won fair-and-square. I suppose it depends on the side of the aisle from which you view these things.

At least Bush was able to verify his American citizenship. I pray that Barry Soetoro (note that's B.S. initialized) is found to be unsuitable for the post of the presidency. While Biden wouldn't be much better, at least he's principled enough to stand against party leaders.

This whole thing is a sham and a bad dream. I hope we all wake up soon!

10 posted on 03/06/2009 4:35:01 AM PST by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / MOLWN LABE!)
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To: diverteach
Dissent is patriotic.
11 posted on 03/06/2009 4:36:29 AM PST by tobyhill (Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
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To: diverteach

Fly a Gadsden Flag


12 posted on 03/06/2009 4:36:53 AM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: diverteach

> An active-duty military woman who wrote to the Daily News agreeing that the property owner had a constitutional right to express his opinion, but said she was upset that the president’s middle name is misspelled.

This woman just made my day. This was good.


13 posted on 03/06/2009 4:40:40 AM PST by BuffaloJack (To stand up for Capitalism is to hope Obama fails.)
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To: diverteach

“A man who flies a Confederate flag on property he owns”

So?

And that relates to the story *how*, exactly?

Is it somehow worse than Mombasa’s campaign staffers hanging “Che” flags in their office?

When the very first sentence of a story attempts to portray the property owner as some kind of neo-Confederate wacko, the article loses all credibility.

I *took down* my Confederate and 13 star “Betsy Ross” flags after 9-11 and put up a regular US one.
When O’Malley won as governor, the Confederate one went right back up.

[as did a LOT of others in my area]

Go, Larry, go!


14 posted on 03/06/2009 4:40:41 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: diverteach
A man who flies a Confederate flag on property he owns...

The article tries to wreck the credibility of this man in the first phrase of the article. He's obviously a racist with no right to an opinion. Compare this description to the press calling Rodney King a motorist.

15 posted on 03/06/2009 4:41:49 AM PST by stayathomemom (Cat herder and empty nester)
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To: Rebelbase

“By any means necessary.”


16 posted on 03/06/2009 4:42:49 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: diverteach
"He won fair and square,

Ah, but did he?


17 posted on 03/06/2009 4:47:32 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Salamander

I took my flag down the day Obama was Inaugurated, and it wont go back up until he shows his birth certificate.


18 posted on 03/06/2009 4:50:53 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Quick Shot

(He won fair and square,)
Really? This person never heard of ACORN? Has not heard of the Poll Workers arrested for voter fraud? Never watched a MSMnews report during the Presidential Campaign to see that it was basically a Madison Avenue ad for Obama? These morons would not know fair if it bit them on the butt.
Obama is a danger to America and a threat to freedomand liberty. There is nothing these people can say or names they can call me etc. to make me supoport an enemy of my Country...


19 posted on 03/06/2009 4:54:04 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Quick Shot
and what’s his FreeRepublic handle??? Which one of you is it? Good job!

It's the person who keeps posting threads and misspelling words in the title............Their spell checker is broken I think.

20 posted on 03/06/2009 4:54:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun on an Indy car....)
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To: diverteach
Local Democrat Judy Byrne Riley hadn't seen the signs but laughed when she heard about them.

"(Obama) won, get used to it," is the message she said she would send to Ford. "He is your president too, whether you agree with it or not.

"He won fair and square, unlike the election in 2000, when (George W.) Bush didn't win fair and square. And we put up with him for many, many years."

While I personally think Mr. Ford's signs are stupid, the comments of this twit can't go unremarked upon.

Al Gore tried to steal the 2000 election, Ms. Judy Byrne Riley. W. won it fair and square. It was DEMOCRATS driving around Floriduh with Votamatics in their trunk.

I wish I had the opportunity to tell her that in person.

21 posted on 03/06/2009 4:55:07 AM PST by sauropod (Mean Capitalist Bastard)
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To: Quick Shot

Day of darkness?

Confederate flag??

Just how ELSE is someone going to interpret this message??

I hope that idiot is NOT a freeper!


22 posted on 03/06/2009 4:55:53 AM PST by RaceBannon (We have sown the wind, but we will reap the whirlwind. NObama. Not my president.)
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To: Venturer

Sorry, but I will not do that....the flag does not represent the president, but it represents the country, and all who live here, fought and died either here or for this country...I will never take my flag down...


23 posted on 03/06/2009 4:58:06 AM PST by joe fonebone (When you ask God for help, sometimes he sends the Marines.)
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To: Venturer
"I took my flag down the day Obama was Inaugurated, and it wont go back up until he shows his birth certificate."

Put your flag back up but fly it upside down.

You still get to fly your flag AND show your objection to Obama at the same time.

24 posted on 03/06/2009 5:00:57 AM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: Rummyfan
A badge of honor!

With some luck, there could be competitors trying to grasp the trophy from Mr. Ford!

25 posted on 03/06/2009 5:01:46 AM PST by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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To: SolidWood

The only thing I blame Ford, is for not making good vehicles.


26 posted on 03/06/2009 5:02:56 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: diverteach

This is in my town. The property is a vacant lot along one of the main thoroughfares. The Confederate flag already made the place looks kind of tacky (it’s next to a trailer park) and this probably won’t help (with the mispellings)

Fortunately the sheriff’s office here has more to worry about, what with the sheriff being arrested this week for embezzling.


27 posted on 03/06/2009 5:06:36 AM PST by JenB
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To: Venturer
I took my flag down the day Obama was Inaugurated __________________________________________________ Mee too - and I replaced it with this: gadsden and culpeper.com
28 posted on 03/06/2009 5:20:01 AM PST by libertarian27 (Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
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To: Venturer

Mine came down June 12, 2008, the day America surrendered in the WOT. It now flies on Memorial Day(half staff ‘til noon), Sept. 11 (half staff all day) and Nov.11 (full staff all day)


29 posted on 03/06/2009 5:21:10 AM PST by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court house.....................America's Axis of Evil!)
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To: Rummyfan

By Thursday night, Ford was featured on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann as the worst person in the world.

Wow! International recognition. Nice going Larry.


30 posted on 03/06/2009 5:22:56 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: libertarian27

I took my flag down the day Obama was Inaugurated

The day the muslim was elected I flew mine upside down, and haven’t flown it since.


31 posted on 03/06/2009 5:25:32 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: chainsaw

The Gadsden Flag is a powerful image
The people who ‘get it’ will understand
The ones who don’t, will never (and won’t trash your yard)


32 posted on 03/06/2009 5:27:43 AM PST by libertarian27 (Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
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To: Venturer

I just bought a new 4’ x 6’ Confederate flag on ebay.

It’ll stay up until they force to me to take down at gunpoint.

[Hope you’re not holding your breath over the BC. We’ll see *that* the day after the Loch Ness monster gives a live interview on all the news stations] ...;]


33 posted on 03/06/2009 5:28:01 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: sauropod

Al Gore tried to steal the 2000 election, Ms. Judy Byrne Riley. W. won it fair and square. It was DEMOCRATS driving around Floriduh with Votamatics in their trunk.

And high priced lawyers asking judges to make a garden variety decision in favor of Gore.


34 posted on 03/06/2009 5:30:44 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: diverteach

“”He won fair and square, unlike the election in 2000, when (George W.) Bush didn’t win fair and square.”

Democrats lie as a matter of habit, without even thinking about it. Their favorite lie is that people who tell the truth are either lying or malicious.


35 posted on 03/06/2009 5:37:40 AM PST by RoadTest (The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jer.17:9)
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To: chainsaw
An accusation is often a subconscious confession.

Somebody should alert Mizz Byrne-Riley.

36 posted on 03/06/2009 5:39:03 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: diverteach

I’d love to shake his hand and buy him a beer!


37 posted on 03/06/2009 5:53:32 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO Kenyan Usurper - "Don't Tread On Me!!!")
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To: diverteach

I wonder if he’s going to get a visit from “The Idiot O’s” brown shirts?


38 posted on 03/06/2009 6:03:01 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Let the Revolution Commence!!!)
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To: diverteach

That could be a powerful sign, but the name really needs to be spelled correctly. As B.O. does not go by his middle name, it’s all the more important to spell Hussein correctly. The signmaker’s lack of being precise waters down the message for me.


39 posted on 03/06/2009 6:16:39 AM PST by mlizzy
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To: libertarian27

This is the one I want to fly under an inverted Stars and Stripes. Guess I need to get a flagpole.

-ccm

40 posted on 03/06/2009 6:20:49 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: diverteach
"He won fair and square, unlike the election in 2000, when due to our failure to manufacture enough phony votes in key precincts, (George W.) Bush didn't win fair and square. And we put up with him for many, many years."

Comment corrected.

41 posted on 03/06/2009 6:34:25 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: diverteach
"fair and square"

I wish to contradict Ms. Riley. Obama won legally, but he didn't win "fair and square." Not if fair and square means having the combined weight of Big Media behind covering for him and omitting his past. Big Media gives every Dem a ten to fifteen point advantage over their opponents.

42 posted on 03/06/2009 6:55:05 AM PST by driftless2
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To: klyick; Old Sarge
You people who are supporting this guy and disrespecting our nation, our armed forces, and our forefathers with your incredible stupidity, I have one thing to say.

NEENER!

Also, GTFO of our country. We don’t need your inbred idiocy here.

FRESH MEAT!

44 posted on 03/06/2009 12:57:55 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (“I HOPE you like your CHANGE.”--MrB)
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To: klyick
Troll Alert!


45 posted on 03/06/2009 2:10:38 PM PST by diverteach (http://www.slapobama.com/)
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46 posted on 03/06/2009 6:52:48 PM PST by Old Sarge ("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
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To: klyick

>>Also, GTFO of our country. We don’t need your inbred idiocy here<<

While I do generally oppose inbred idiocy (as well as most other kinds) - you seem a touch new to be making such demands here. Heck, I’d be too new too.


47 posted on 03/06/2009 6:55:58 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: klyick; darkwing104; Old Sarge; dcwusmc
You people who are supporting this guy and disrespecting our nation, our armed forces, and our forefathers with your incredible stupidity, I have one thing to say.

NEENER!

Also, GTFO of our country. We don’t need your inbred idiocy here.

You have angered the Viking kittens.

48 posted on 03/06/2009 6:58:31 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: diverteach

Our poor nation.

The President is a marxist crypto-muslim.

By the way, what CHRISTIAN CHURCH did the THIEF IN CHIEF attend last Sunday?

I mean, as a Kenyan crook we all knew he was going to steal everything in sight once he got to the White House but 2 TRILLION DOLLARS?.

This is like a bad Twilight Zone episode.

49 posted on 03/06/2009 6:58:37 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Old Sarge

Gosh, this quick and I am IATZ! Sniff!


50 posted on 03/06/2009 6:58:43 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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