Maybe they were cold.

Wow, unprecedented! Good thing no one ever burned an effigy of a sitting president before, oh….wait…nevermind.

I’ll get flak for this but I’m an Obama supporter and I couldn’t care less about this. How many people burned Bush in effigy? Actually, the question should be: Who didn’t?

And? This is not an overt threat. A free people should have the right to self expression. Regardless if they are burning an effigy of Bu$h, Obama or the flag, they have that right. You don’t believe me, just turn to the US Constitution; turn to the Bill of rights and it is there.

The 1st Amendment: Freedom of religion, speech, and the press; rights of assembly and petition Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I’ve always said you tea-baggers were classy. Go AmeriKa!

tjl says:
May 20, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I’ve always said you tea-baggers were classy. Go AmeriKa!

Yeah, stuff like this never happened when Bush was President.

@tjl

You’re not calling me that, are you? I’m an Independent who voted for this guy. I just have this CRAZY ability to remember 2000 – 2008.

It’s a good thing that never happened to Bush. Imagine what the decent liberals would have said about that.

Oh..nevermind

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/72888

Ination; if you’re down for burning an effigy of the president, then yes I am. And as someone who voted for “this guy” (meaning, your president, right?) you should understand… but, then again, I don’t buy that you voted for “this guy.” And I too have a CRAZY ability to remember 2000-20008 — what hell it was! And we’re still paying for it! Anti-intellectualism is alive and well, my friends. Mission accomplished!

And I assume, MichellF, that you were fine with people doing stuff like this to Bush, right? It was all in good fun, no? An eye for an eye! Good luck with that. Go AmeriKa!

Yes Barney, and I bet you had a good laugh about it right? In fact, let’s burn some more Bush shit! Hey, it’s all in good fun! A rite of passage!

Oh… nevermind.

Wasn’t there a Effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from a noose not too long ago…. and the liberals were defending it calling it freedom or expression?

Wasn’t there’s and weren’t they’s only get you so far, hkyplayer. And you were fine with that, right? If this is cool, that too is cool, right?

Was it freedom of expression and is this freedom of expression? Either they are both OK or are both disgusting. I’m on the side of the latter, but you all seem to be for the former, so please stop crying about things that were said about/done to Bush. It’s all cool, right?

Go AmeriKa!

@tjl

I’m glad you designate a specific act to a specific group of people and act like no one else is capable. Statements like that only mirror the ones of those you oppose.

I didn’t vote for Barack Obama? Glad you know my voting record. But I guess since I’m not apart of the hive mind, I’m a Tea Bagger. Another grand conclusion.

And at no point am I promoting anti-intellectualism whatsoever. I do not want Joe The Plumber or any ‘average’ person in charge of this nation. I do want that person with the best education out there to make the decisions that will better our country. But don’t get me wrong – I want most of the people in Congress out of it – term limits should be set. Being a Representative or Senator should not be a career.

I think this is incredibly disturbing. I don’t care which President this is, and I don’t care if it is legal or not, it’s sick and disgusting. I abhor the liberals that did this to a Bush effigy as much as I do these cretins. Just shameful. Not right for ANYBODY to do to ANY President…

Ination, you’re right. I apologize to you. But you can’t defend the action of these “people.” And if you do, which you seemed to be doing, you can’t castigate those who did the same to Bush. And you can take the approach, “well it happened to Bush, it happens to Obama, who cares!” but that gets us nowhere as a country. It’s the anti-intellectual approach.

And, the funny thing is, you implicated me as someone who burned Bush in effigy by saying “who didn’t.” How’s that for a grand conclusion.

I remember ’00 to ’08. While I didn’t like Bu$h’s “grow the government” policies like SCHIP, deficits, Patriot Act, and open borders policy, limited wars…wait. Obama is growing the government, Obama has escalated war, Obama resigned the Patriot Act, Obama’s an open borders goon. There is no freakin difference between these fools. Both are corporatists. Neither really supported/ support the US Constitution.

@tjl

“But you can’t defend the action of these “people.” And if you do, which you seemed to be doing, you can’t castigate those who did the same to Bush. And you can take the approach, “well it happened to Bush, it happens to Obama, who cares!” but that gets us nowhere as a country. It’s the anti-intellectual approach.”

Point taken. There isn’t any way to defend this. Personally, the reason why I couldn’t care less is because it just doesn’t surprise me. Is that the correct approach these kind of situations? Probably not.

I’ve just reached the point where I’ve accepted that these types of things are going to happen no matter what the discourse or political climate. People are pretty dead-set on what they believe to be true and just and attempting to change that is usually an act of futility. Keyword here is usually – there are those who listen but my goodness, how often do you run into them?

“And, the funny thing is, you implicated me as someone who burned Bush in effigy by saying “who didn’t.” How’s that for a grand conclusion.”

Sarcasm doesn’t translate very well on the internet and I was certainly being just that when I typed that.

I’ll defend it, just like I’ll defend those Americans that burned Bush effigies. As the representative of the US Government, these politicians have the weight of a powerful entity behind them, regardless of party. Regular Americans should be free to vent their frustration and show their dislike and mistrust of political leaders such as Bu$h or Obama. What’s important is not the government official, but the individual American.

I doubt if this will be the last time we see something like this. The bar owner certainly has his right to do this.

Burning a sitting president in effigy doesn’t even come close to being as disturbing as a foreign leader speaking out against one of our very own United States getting a standing ovation from the U.S. Congress. Now that was frightening.

I should have said from ‘some’ members of the U.S. Congress.

Good point fan of America.

Conservatives, stop acting like liberals!

fanofamerica says:
May 20, 2010 at 2:04 pm

I should have said from ’some’ members of the U.S. Congress.”

No, you should have said “liberal members of the U.S. Congress.”

OMG the Secret Service should lock down that town. Seriously? So what? Somewhere there is someone burning a Bush poster/statue and a Cheney blow up doll or something. NEXT!

Sure glad they never did that to Bush. Oh wait . . .

http://frosto3965.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/hypocrite-thy-name-is-democrat/

Just for your information, it’s DUCT tape, not DUCK tape

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

And if there’s anyone moderating these comments, I’m NOT looking for a good shopping place, and it reflects badly on you that spam doesn’t get deleted.

I’m going with badr’s comment. They were probably just cold. ;)

Calderon ‘lit’ into Obama about our immigration laws and Obama was fine with it.

Shomari, AF, et al….. you guys are tiring. How many times does one have to say that both are wrong? Unless, of course, you condone this action. In which case, you should have no problem with people burning Bush “posters/statues.” Right?

It’s disturbing at how many of you are taking the eye-for-an-eye approach. This one seemed like a softball for all of us to agree that no matter who the sitting president is, this is wrong. Take the low-road, boys! Political discourse at its finest!

tjl, the point is that there was less media noise when liberals did the same when it came to President Bush, so it’s the hypocrisy that is being pointed out. The posters didn’t get into whether they agreed with it or is something they’d take part in, they just took the opportunity to refresh memories that it did happen to Bush as well, so the outrage by the left when it’s a democrat president seems a little ingenious.

I meant ‘disingenious’!

Had it been Bush burned in effigy the media wouldn’t even be talking about it.

After all those times that some Hollywood celeb was on tv calling Bush a “f***ing idiot” and the left laughed, I’m glad to see them gaining a new respect for the office.

Dem member of congress give Calderon a standing O when he trashes the US (AZ), and that is not your headline? Instead, you headline something that has been happening for years and years?

laughing at the media for making this a story….too funny.

That was just another day on campus , at UC-Berkeley back in the Bush years.

tjl says:
May 20, 2010 at 1:18 pm

You are one of the biggest slime-ball libs on this site, so STFU!

How does it compare to the dozens burned of Bush by the Uberleft?

Reel Murcuhn Patriots in akshun! Yup. Wingnuts all. Proud folks!

Well, let’s face it, we don’t have much of a history of White people being lynched or burned in America, but we do have a long history, some of it not that long ago, of African-Americans being lynched and burned in Amerika. Tea Partiers are White, our president is African-American. I’m afraid there is an ugly but logical progression here.

Its people like King, who interject race into every aspect of discussion , is the reason the progression forward in AmeriCa , stalls.

Obama’s skin color is a gift that keeps on giving! Disagree with any policy or action of his and it’s all “connect the dots” and the same conclusion is reached over and over and over again. It’s sooo predictable and frankly, it’s getting rather tedious.

The Real Royal King says:
May 20, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Well, let’s face it, we don’t have much of a history of White people being lynched or burned in America, but we do have a long history, some of it not that long ago, of African-Americans being lynched and burned in Amerika. Tea Partiers are White, our president is African-American. I’m afraid there is an ugly but logical progression here.

So what I’m hearing from you YET AGAIN King, is it’s ok for one group and not the other. You can’t have it both ways, even though you keep trying to. There is no different in doing it to Bush and doing it to Obama.

This would have just been called “Tuesday” when bush was president, and it probably would have been praised in the media as patriotic dissent. I just can’t understand how hypocritical the left has become when it comes to this kinda stuff. This is America, they can burn whatever they want.

The Real Royal King says:
May 20, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Well, let’s face it, we don’t have much of a history of White people being lynched or burned in America, but we do have a long history, some of it not that long ago, of African-Americans being lynched and burned in Amerika. Tea Partiers are White, our president is African-American. I’m afraid there is an ugly but logical progression here.

Hey! Kings back! Finals over lil buddy? Whacha gonna do this summer? Mom gonna make ya get a job or can ya blog all summer?

Burn, baby, burn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINhfkQAz1g

annnnnnnnnd…QED.

Bovine,

I am sure some cows and horses at this address

Jeff Merrill
PO Box 294 Rescue, CA 95672

will enjoy some nice lighter fluid to keep them warm.

Don’t cha think Jeffy?

The King has been out traveling the world again. The guy in the ‘room’ next to his thinks he’s an astronaut. King, since you hate ‘Amerika’ so much, the next time you’re on one of these ‘trips’, why not ask the nurse to increase your dosage so you can stay there longer?

Burning Obama is inappropriate.

Burning Bush was appropriate.

Didn’t they have one of those in the Bible? If it’s in the Bible it must be ok.

Burning Obama is inappropriate.

They should have hung him

Big_F-ing_Deal says:
May 21, 2010 at 1:05 am

Burning Bush was appropriate.

Wait… are you serious? You think one was okay, and one was wrong… based solely on whom you agree with? You must be joking… right?

Didn’t they have one of those in the Bible? If it’s in the Bible it must be ok.

Wow. Have you been drinking tonight… because that makes no sense at all. Wow, Big F… every day you surprise me.

LMAO @ BFD !!!

Sorry@ BFD, I get it now, Moses in the Bible and the ‘Burning Bush’.

Liberal jokes always take me a while to get, most times never.

Lool lool look http://www.tnta.us/

does anyone rmember  what GW BUSH did when told of the 9/11 attack? he just went about his business talking at an elementary school and hardly lifted an eyebrow!! how soon we forget!!