Anti-Obama sign fuels debate

[MaineDem]

NEW GLOUCESTER — Robert Horr insists that his political sign is just intended to provoke debate about the presidential candidates' backgrounds and their qualifications to lead the military.

Paul Proudian, who stopped by to see it for himself this week, views the sign very differently: as a deceitful attempt to mischaracterize the Democratic candidate.

Proudian says the sign appeals to the worst in people's fears, with ethnic and religious overtones, and tries to show Republican John McCain as "more American" than Barack Obama.

Erected in Horr's driveway on Gloucester Hill Road and visible from busy Route 100, the 8-foot-by-12-foot sign features life-size representations of Obama, shown wearing a turban and the traditional dress of a Somali elder, and McCain, shown dressed in a military flight suit.

Alongside Obama's picture are the words "Never served in the military," and above it is his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=217449&ac=PHnws

I'm so disgusted that this happens in Maine. Or anywhere for that matter.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Typical republican Horr...............

[MaineDem]

2. It's bigger than town law allows but...

the town isn't going to take any action. That really pisses me off.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I agree, but perhaps they don't want to make this into a media circus.

I do think it's wrong, but just imagine the hordes of Fox-like media swarming into town if this issue catches fire. The idiot that owns the sign wants to be another Joe the plumber.

Frustrating, to be sure.

[VPStoltz]

15. It's there to promote debate...?

My rebuttal would be a bucket of paint!

[Ikonoklast]

4. Obama never cost the military over $40 million in wrecked aircraft

But, it doesn't really matter. There is no military qualification to become president.

And McCain wasn't that good at it anyway, that's for sure.

[TheCoxwain]

5. These guys have no clue about the damage they are doing to our country with their hatred

[Snotcicles]

6. His neighbor should put up a picture of Horr humping a farm animal with

a question "Is my neighbor a sodomite?"

[mainer]

7. poor, rural Maine tilts Republican

It's amazing, isn't it? How the people who have the most to lose under McCain, who are already beneficiaries of "Socialism", are voting against their own interests.

I don't know if it's a lack of education or merely a dozen missing IQ points, but you have to wonder how people could be so stupid.

[MaineDem]

10. I live in rural Maine. At the local grocery store yesterday...

I was checking out and the clerk commented on my Obama/Biden pin. She said she wanted to order one but she'd never get it in time to wear before the election. I dug into my pocketbook and got her one. The clerk at the next register said she wanted one too. I only had a "Yes We Can" button left but she said she liked that ever better. So I made two young women very happy. And this is in a very very Republican area.

It's trending well for us. But, obviously, there is hate out there that we can never overcome.

[davidpdx]

12. Hmm...at that rate you'd better fill your pocket with Obama pins

or get bigger pockets.

[Ozma]

8. I honestly don't know what to say... I thought

people in Maine were nicer than that, since I was born in Maine!

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Click on the link and enlarge - The guy looks just like Adolph Hitler.

Unreal.

[stuntcat]

11. racist fear-monger

it's a shame how well that crap works on people.

[davidpdx]

13. Racist mother*bleep*

Maybe someone should ask him how long he's been in the KKK.

[City of Mills]

14. Attention Horr

That's all these people are, anything to get a 30 second spot on the news, whether it's hanging Obama in effigy, putting up a stupid poster, wearing a Klan outfit, let them do what they want. I hope it eats them from the inside out when Obama is their lord and master. We'll see in a couple of weeks. Yes, I will be gloating!

[high density]

16. Up on Route 52 near Lincolnville (of all places)

there is an idiot with a confederate flag flying beside his McCain/Palin sign... This state is full of idiots, but we knew that already.

[Erin Elizabeth]

17. Wow. I've never seen shit like that in Texas.

But I think the Republicans here are a bit complacent. Sleepy. Fat. Lazy. Overconfident.

Juuuuuust how we want 'em! ROFL!

[WinkyDink]

18. Hillary never served in the military; Palin never served ITM. SINCE WHEN IS THIS A REQUIREMENT?