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Billboard Compares Obama to Aurora Shooter

CaptainXeroid

Following Christ
I'm an American but not an Obama supporter, and I think it's over the top and in very poor taste.

I can't say I'm shocked though. During GWBush's presidency, his opponents compared him to monkeys and Hitler. Such is the state of American politics these days. People say outlandish things to draw attention to themselves, then the media obliges them.
 

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
I'm an American but not an Obama supporter, and I think it's over the top and in very poor taste.

I can't say I'm shocked though. During GWBush's presidency, his opponents compared him to monkeys and Hitler. Such is the state of American politics these days. People say outlandish things to draw attention to themselves, then the media obliges them.
This was not put up by Obama political opponents. It was put up by anti-war proponents.

Poor taste all around.
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
I can hardly be described as an Obama supporter and I find the billboard to be absurd.

The text by Holmes' photo reads: "Kills 12 in a movie theater, everyone freaks out."
Next to the President's photo, it reads: "Kills thousands with foreign policy, wins Nobel Peace Prize."
Curiously, Obama had received the Nobel "Peace" prize very early in his reign - for doing nothing, whatsoever, to warrant the prize, however, at that point in time very few casualties could possibly be attributed to him. But, hey, why let facts ruin a perfectly good hatchet job, eh?
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
In all likelihood, there has never been an American president with less blood on his hands than Holmes. But the killing that Holmes did is not socially acceptable. The killing presidents do is almost always socially acceptable. Hell, now and then, presidents even have good reasons for their killing, but Holmes certainly didn't.
 
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Kerr

Well-Known Member
Poor taste? How so?
Its a bit like when people compare a politican they dont like with Hitler. Or Stalin. Or any other massmurdering dictator. And just as when people do that, this billboard is just poor taste.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Its a bit like when people compare a politican they dont like with Hitler. Or Stalin. Or any other massmurdering dictator. And just as when people do that, this billboard is just poor taste.
In poor taste it is, but there is legitimacy in pointing out that we're outraged when a
relative few people are murdered, but are nonchalant about the death of thousands.
The shock value can force us to face something we've too easily accepted as OK.
Billboards are a venue where attention must be grabbed, & this one sure does that.
 
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Willamena

Just me
Premium Member
I think it misses its mark. It appears to draw on dislike for Obama to lend sympathy to Holmes.
 

Reverend Rick

Frubal Whore
Premium Member
I think it misses its mark. It appears to draw on dislike for Obama to lend sympathy to Holmes.

I don't see sympathy for Holmes, what I see is no sympathy for innocent women and children killed by Obama approved predator drones.

I am amazed no one ever mentions that Obama has used them more than any other president.

If Bush would have increased their use, progressives would be rioting in the streets.

Oh the hypocrisy:facepalm:
 

Apex

Somewhere Around Nothing
I don't see sympathy for Holmes, what I see is no sympathy for innocent women and children killed by Obama approved predator drones.

I am amazed no one ever mentions that Obama has used them more than any other president.

If Bush would have increased their use, progressives would be rioting in the streets.

Oh the hypocrisy:facepalm:
So I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

Imagine all the threads we would have seen going on about it and the blatant disregard for international law against Pakistan. But since Obama is the one doing it, silence...
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
So I wasn't the only one who noticed that.
Imagine all the threads we would have seen going on about it and the blatant disregard for international law against Pakistan. But since Obama is the one doing it, silence...
This suggests one big advantage of having a Republican prez, ie, that wars &
assaults on civil liberty will be vigorously protested instead of going unnoticed.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
I am definitely not an Obama supporter but this type of idiocy is unfair to the man and to the office.
 
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