Anti-Obama ‘Entrepreneurs’ Co-Opt Amusing Political Billboard Movement

by Frances Martel | 4:18 pm, April 5th, 2010

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Uh-oh: someone took those George W. Bush “Miss Me Yet?” billboards seriously. After a group of small business owners saw something funny on the internet and decided to make it a confusing ad looming over a Minnesota highway, anti-Obama advocates are launching an organized campaign to fill the skies with slogans like “Stop the Lies!” and “If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention.” In other words, BillboardsAgainstObama.com is the new Ron Paul Blimp.

The new billboards began to appear over Atlanta, Georgia, and this time, the group of small business owners didn’t waste any time identifying themselves and promoting their cause. According to NBC News 11 in Atlanta, they have hired local conservative motivational speaker Tommy Newberry as their spokesman, who commented to NBC 11:

“There’s a group of entrepreneurs, small business owners, that have frankly just said, ‘we’ve had enough’ and they’re taking the gloves off… [they asked themselves] ‘why don’t we use the free market to help slow the slide into socialism?’”

An unfortunate turn of events, surely, for those who first put up the billboards as a way to point out how ridiculous and overheated attacks from both sides have become. Though if it’s any consolation, a read-through of their website makes it seem like the billboards are not a real political movement, but an online get-rich-quick scheme, since the only thing one can do on it is donate money. Here is their mission statement:

Do you love freedom? Do you love independence? Do you value the opportunity in the United States to work hard, take risks, and succeed? If the current administration completes the process they are racing to achieve, all of this will be gone! To stop the madness, we must speak out now. BILLBOARDS AGAINST OBAMA is a practical and effective way to join the battle, be seen, be heard, before it’s too late!

According to the website, about 0% of this money will go towards funding anti-Obama Congressional campaigns in this fall’s midterm elections, and another 0% will go towards advocacy, lobbying, and PACs. “Practical and effective,” indeed! Where do I sign up?

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m

The Administration should just find out who these people are and remove all of their tax credits and small business exemptions and then let the free market take care of them.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

M:

Don’t worry. I’m sure the IRS will be giving their returns some extra scrutiny this year.
ObamaSux

Yeah, don’t worry we’ll send the IRS! Well, don’t worry, we keep score too, commie!
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timzank

m says:
April 5, 2010 at 4:28 pm
The Administration should just find out who these people are and remove all of their tax credits and small business exemptions and then let the free market take care of them.

Does anybody else see how astoundingly un-American M’s comment sounds? A group of Americans band together to voice their opposition to the governments policies, an absolutely fundamental and sacred right of the people and M’s answer is for the government to punish them for criticizing them?

How do you get to the point where, as an American, you can even think that way??

Seriously, don’t any of you other posters (or “reporters” here) find that the least bit disturbing?
txss33

What exactly have these morons- ‘had enough’ of…..I don’t get it- Obama rescued the world from the abyss over this past year- these so-called entrepenuers are more like a band of robotic hannity/foxtv drooling idiots.
timzank

“Obama rescued the world from the abyss over this past year”

This site just gets funnier and funnier….

Look! Up in the air!
disgusted

Sounds like Either/Both of the, now, MAJOR parties!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maria-Gonzalez-Copeland/1318305032 Maria Gonzalez Copeland

timzank-You hit the nail on the head regarding the un-American comment suggesting that the Administration retaliate against a group simply for having a different point of view that they expressed in a non-violent and without breaking any laws or violating the Constitution. However, the suggestion that this group be “targeted” would infringe upon the basic personal freedoms and liberties guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution.

Abyss? Really……. clueless and hopeless to even attempt to explain the financial/political system to a soul that has absolutely no sense of reality or historical knowledge of the numerous nanny state programs along with their long term effects of which we are all having to pay the price for some 70+ yrs later.

“Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”

- Ronald Reagan in his First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981