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Justice Official, NAACP Meet with Norfolk Over Float (Nebraska--Obama Outhouse)
The Lincoln Journal Star ^ | Friday, July 11, 2014

Posted on 07/12/2014 10:46:34 AM PDT by kristinn

Four representatives of the NAACP and the U.S. Department of Justice met with Norfolk Mayor Sue Fuchtman Thursday to talk about a controversial float in the Fourth of July parade.

The meeting included the mayor, city administrator Shane Weidner and members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which organized the parade.

The Justice Department official is a member of the Community Relations Service team that handles discrimination disputes.

The float in question depicted a distraught looking mannequin in overalls in front of an outhouse with the words Obama Presidential Library on the side.

"The state area NAACP has received numerous concerns and inquiries about this issue," Iowa-Nebraska NAACP President Betty C. Andrews said in a news release.

Weidner said the meeting was very positive and, for him, more of a listening session.

(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: obama; obamafloat
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The mayor should have told the Justice Department to take flying leap. This is a First Amendment issue.
1 posted on 07/12/2014 10:46:34 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Next Years Float...as seen here

A Tribute To Obamas Alien Relatives....




2 posted on 07/12/2014 10:48:58 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: kristinn

Indeed—Exactly what ordinance, statute, or law did the guy who made the float violate?


3 posted on 07/12/2014 10:50:24 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Thou shall not mock Dear Leader.


4 posted on 07/12/2014 10:51:36 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: kristinn
 photo obamafuhrercopy_zps35774615.jpg

5 posted on 07/12/2014 10:52:39 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: kristinn

But the Hindenburg going up in flames would be more accurate but not very safe for a parade.


6 posted on 07/12/2014 10:57:10 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: kristinn

There are GOUTS of corruption and criminals invading,
and the DO”J” comes here??


7 posted on 07/12/2014 10:59:59 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT US Congress remains COMPLICIT)
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To: kristinn

The DOJ official was there to rape the 1st Amendment on behalf of the Mahdi. The NAACP was there to egg him on.


8 posted on 07/12/2014 11:01:03 AM PDT by libstripper
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Bush Chimp was gleefully noted.

can you imagine if a obama chimp poster or float was public? i think they would jail you, same cell as the benghazi video guy, who i believe is also still locked up.


9 posted on 07/12/2014 11:02:59 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: kristinn

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/02/george-w-bush-sewage-plan_n_94601.html

‘George W Bush Sewage Plant’ Proposed In San Francisco


10 posted on 07/12/2014 11:08:21 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Arm_Bears

None, of course. In fact the character on the float looks nothing like Obama, and the maker says it was supposed to be himself. The figure is wearing bib overalls which is workingmans apparel and thus would eliminate any possibility of it representing Obama.


11 posted on 07/12/2014 11:11:09 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Arm_Bears

Obama’s comandment: I am the law. Thou shall not mock me.


12 posted on 07/12/2014 11:11:46 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: kristinn

Free speech?
Free expression?

I’m glad we voted those things out.

Those are antiquated notions thought up by evil bigoted white slave owners.

It’s time we embrace better ways of thinking. :)

Now go pay your taxes, there are a bunch of people coming our over border illegally who need the money.


13 posted on 07/12/2014 11:18:54 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: kristinn

Why is Justice Dept in on a parade float but not in on defending the borders, defending federal law, investigating fast and furious, investigating/prosecuting IRS, etc?

What maroons.


14 posted on 07/12/2014 11:25:28 AM PDT by Principled (Obama: Unblemished by success.)
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To: kristinn

Why the hell are DOJ and NAACP coordinating in this?


15 posted on 07/12/2014 11:26:45 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: kristinn

I vividly recall the endless mocking of Ronald Reagan (always portrayed as a bumbling fool) and W. Bush, endlessly compared to a chimp.

Even if I disagreed with these portrayals I never would have imagined that any branch of our government would consider responding to them. If Bush had sent a “Justice Official” to visit the guy who created that poster comparing chimp facial expressions to W’s the public outrage would have been massive.


16 posted on 07/12/2014 11:28:40 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: Junk Silver

The lesson we are told to learn is “No black man in a position of authority is ever to be mocked.” That’s racism!


17 posted on 07/12/2014 11:33:44 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: kristinn

The same NAACP which did nothing as one of its high ranking members demonized black Repubs??!!


18 posted on 07/12/2014 11:52:52 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: Truth29

“Obama’s comandment: I am the law. Thou shall not mock me.”

The kid glove treatment of Obama has ensured that there will never be an honest discussion on race in this country; the preferential treatment is permanent (practically enshrined in law).

Blacks will never catch up as long as nobody is allowed to expect anything of them. Millions of foreigners are crossing our southern border, and within a few years 99% of them will have passed blacks on the economic ladder.

Obama/Holder are delivering Pyhrric victories to their people, while they die in urban violence and abortuaries.


19 posted on 07/12/2014 11:57:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kristinn

Well, obviously James Madison never intended the First Amendment to be stretched to include making fun of the President in office.


20 posted on 07/12/2014 12:18:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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