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.

[mass55th]

They’re acknowledging that he’s an empty chair. LOL!!

[griswold3]

Soooo, what if they used chains instead? How else do you get that chair up in that tree?
‘Lynch’? Oh, Brother!

[molson209]

WOW , empty chairs forever to = Obama LOL

[molson209]

Oh and a guy down the street has some chairs out for garbage collecting ,LOL , and a dog just lifted his leg

[gorush]

Hey Obama...think of it as flag burning.

[Maceman]

Hanging sends the wrong message. The chairs should be tarred and feathered instead.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hahaha!!!!

Thin skinned, are ya Barry?

[TADSLOS]

Looking forward to seeing all those empty chairs outside the polling stations.

[Cementjungle]

The Secret Service said it was looking into the empty chair incidents. "The Secret Service is aware of this and will conduct appropriate followup," spokesman Brian Leary told NBC News.

Good grief.

[re_nortex]

I’ll have to reassess my thoughts about Austin, Texas. It looks like there may just be an outbreak of sanity down there in that liberal stronghold where they actually have an on-campus library named after an evil crook.

[1035rep]

[tobyhill]

If it's an empty chair, how can it be symbolic of “lynching” a person?

[bigbob]

Sometimes it’s just a hanging

[tobyhill]

Prosecute the Chair Lynchers.

[1035rep]

[tomkat]

. . . rapidly devolving into United Sissies of America

[Surrounded_too]

Didn’t the muzzies hang him in effigy?

How come we don’t hear any crybaby bitching about that?

[DaveA37]

Maybe every one of us should “suspend” an empty chair from our trees. Obviously if we “hang” a chair in a tree we then become racists. What a bunch of cry babies.

And the Secret Service folks have time to look into all these suspensions? Good grief, what has this nation become?
No more freedom of speech or expression?

[tobyhill]

Clint Eastwood has aluminum on his hands.