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Is Suburban Obama Sign Racist?
Daily Herald ^
| 10/15/08
| Josh Stockinger
Posted on 10/17/2008 3:59:18 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
It might be offensive, but it isn't illegal.
That's the conclusion police reached about a campaign sign in unincorporated Kane County that contains a "racial slur" in reference to Barack Obama.
The homemade sign, posted along a well-traveled stretch of Route 47 north of Lily Lake, shows a caricature of the nation's first black presidential nominee wearing red-colored hair and a red nose modeled after Chicago's famed Bozo the Clown. There's a red circle with a line through the Illinois senator's head and two words in all capital letters: "NO BROZOS."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antichrist; bro; obama; racist
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Here's a picture of the offending sign. I think it's funny as hell!
To: Past Your Eyes
Free speech. Good for him.
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:00:25 AM PDT
by
Heartland Mom
(Those who would give up liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Franklin)
To: Past Your Eyes
lol Bros before Hoes- ask any PUMA!
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:01:59 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States. ~ Carlos the Jackal)
To: Past Your Eyes
Actually the proper descriptive is Brilliant.
Allowing the left to control the language is our great downfall. Even on FRee Republic, the language police are tyrants.
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:03:55 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Off With her head.....)
To: Past Your Eyes
Is verbotten!
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:04:37 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("Duck I says... ")
To: Past Your Eyes
Silly, silly dissidents. Don't they realize that any criticism of the Fuhrer Obama, no matter how slight, is racist.
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:04:58 AM PDT
by
exile
(I will NOT submit.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Please explain to me how this could ever be construed as racist? This is getting really ridiculous! I have been very reticent to consider if the Bradley effect could possibly be true, but when I see day after day, anyone that dares question "The One" being labeled either a racist, or investigated by the MSM (Joe the Plumber), I can now believe there are a whole lot of people out there that will not actually admit that they are not voting for Obama!
We actually live in a country that may spout Free Speech, but dare to not agree with "The Messiah" and your life will be Hell!
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:05:39 AM PDT
by
codercpc
To: Past Your Eyes
I'm just waiting for the dummies to say things like this:
JOE THE PLUMBER IS A SKINHEAD!
THE NIXON BURGLERS WERE CALLED PLUMBERS. COINCIDENCE OR CONSPIRACY?
To: Past Your Eyes
Good grief!
It’s not up to the police or the Daily Herald to decide. We either have free speech or we don’t.
I don’t remember, for example, the police getting involved when someone decided a Cross in a jar of piss was art or not, for example. The Daily Herald’s story then would have been on excessive and illegal police power.
To: Past Your Eyes
Good sign and I like the concealed connections to the 12KVA transformer!
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:09:01 AM PDT
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Live from Wasilla, Alaska and saying NO to Barack HUSSEIN Obama)
To: codercpc
Notice that the McCain people did the PC thing and denounced it. Wimps. If by some miracle McCain wins, he will probably ruin the Republican party for at least a generation to come.
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:09:27 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I agree that it is a clever play on words, good for a one time joke or something. He’s 100% free to do it, but I wouldn’t.
To: Heartland Mom
Well in the case of Chicago “ We’re all Bozos on this bus “.
To: Alas Babylon!
Please note that the picture did not accompany the article. I found it on another discussion board, posted by its owner. The newspaper is wimpy, too. (Big surprise there, ey?)
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:10:58 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Found it! (your post, I mean!) :-)
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:19:12 AM PDT
by
sneakers
Sorry, but I'm not up to date on current racial slurs.
Is "brozo" a "racial slur"?
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:19:19 AM PDT
by
CE2949BB
(McCain/Palin 08)
To: bert
Even on FRee Republic, the language police are tyrants. As a member of the F.R. spelling police, I agree with you, the grammar police should be hunged hanged.
To: ovrtaxt
What happened to free speech in AmeriKa!
It went away with Comrade Barack Hussein Obama
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:22:40 AM PDT
by
ncfool
(Obama stands for The New United Socialist State or "TNUSSA")
To: Graybeard58
......hunged .....
Actually, the correct wrong word is hung.
“We hung him from the live oak.”
or “Stockings were hung by the chimney with care”
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:23:14 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Off With her head.....)
To: CE2949BB
--
Is "brozo" a "racial slur"? --
It is if you're Josh Stockinger.
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posted on
10/17/2008 4:24:28 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
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