Protestors gather at billboard comparing Obama to Terrorists in Denver

[HopeOverFear]

Video -----> http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=127481&catid=339


WHEAT RIDGE - The owner of a local auto dealership has gotten international attention after putting up a controversial billboard about President Barack Obama.
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Phil Wolf, the man behind the billboard and Wolf Interstate Leasing and Sales says he wishes he was better prepared for the flood of reaction to the sign.

The sign asks if President Obama is a terrorist and if he's really an American citizen by birth. Part of the sign also references the recent tragedy at Fort Hood.

The question of Obama's citizenship has been an issue since early in his presidential campaign.

Hawaiian officials have inspected his original birth certificate, proving he was born in the United States. The conspiracy theory has persisted, in part, because Hawaiian officials won't release the president's original birth certificate.

There's other evidence out there that he was indeed born in Hawaii - birth announcements in both of Honolulu's major newspapers in August 1961, and a teacher who says she discussed his birth with Dr. Rodney West, the obstetrician who delivered Obama.

Wolf says he initially drew the billboard on a napkin and then had an artist paint it. The sign, which was completed Friday, is visible to drivers on Interstate 70 near Kipling Street.

"I can't say I expected everything that's been going on with the responses we got," Wolf said.

He says his business has been overwhelmed with phone calls. Some callers have threatened both Wolf and his employees.

Wolf says he's accepting the risk and the backlash he may receive.

"We've had calls as far as Canada to Florida. We've had calls all over the country," Wolf said. "I didn't expect employees to leave scared going home from work that were threatened, death threats and attempts to bomb the place. It's been pretty crazy out there."

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Please provide the police reports on the attempted bombing.

[havocmom]

3. I'd like that too. Cuz it is more like RW crazies to make those threats

The people his billboard offends are probably not the types to go to such extremes. But I could see the asshole trying to blame them for such actions as he dives for cover from his own stoopid.

[havocmom]

2. Businessmen who go wing-nut crazy near their businesses are assholes

They want to risk pissing off consumers in a bad economy? They are shitting where they eat. Idiots! They may be able to personally absorb some losses, but the business and their employees? Fucking irresponsible!

They want to subject their employees to political disagreements with the boss's positions? They are creating a hostile workplace AND possibly creating dangerous work conditions. One would think their insurance carriers would offer some advice or raise their liability rates!

Free speech is great, but smart businesses keep personal separate from from professional.

Does this idiot allow his employees to voice their political views at work if they are different from his? How does that work?

Have seen too much proof that GOP businessmen are going bat-shit crazy in their professional arenas. It will hurt them, which is OK, if that is what they want. But the real damage is what it can do to their business, which puts their workers at economic risk.

Plus, as someone mentioned when discussing this very problem: When workers leave personal stuff at home and conduct themselves professionally at work, being productive, and putting $ in the bosses wallet, it is over the top disrespectful to them when the boss puts radical political remarks out there in the workplace.

Just plain dumb, and one more way the GOP trashes the economy.

:rant:

[madmom]

4. Here is one police report....

According to Wheat Ridge Police, Saturday afternoon a man was cited for disorderly conduct and criminal mischief after he allegedly threw a wooden pallet at a protest banner. The man told police it was an accident when he tripped and fell.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=127481&catid=339



but not what they are claiming happened:rofl:

[otohara]

5. Billboard Boy Successor to Balloon Boy

Wolf man's billboard a Colorado weirdness successor to Balloon Boy.

Billboards, I'll confess, are not my favorite form of advertising. But if I had a billboard of my own, I'd start with this message:

Phil Wolf — Hater or Wack Job?

If you haven't heard of Phil Wolf, he's the Colorado car dealer who has turned himself into Billboard Boy — a successor in weirdness to Balloon Boy — and the latest in our state's contribution to cable TV, talk radio and the blogosphere. He can't match the guy in the Los Angeles airport who strapped 15 lizards to his chest, trying to sneak them through customs, but he's weird enough.

You've probably seen either the billboard itself, which is on Wolf's used-car lot in Wheat Ridge, or the photo of the billboard in Saturday's paper or a TV clip of the billboard, which features cartoonish/racist images of Barack Obama as big-eared president and Barack Obama as big-eared turban-wearer.

The billboard asks: "President or Jihad?" Of course, it should be President or Jihadi, but, as I understand it, bad grammar — along with nutty thinking — is protected by the First Amendment.

The middle of the billboard is the usual "birther" garbage about the "issue" of Obama's birth certificate — the strangest conspiracy theory since the Trilateral Commission days — but it finishes off with a "Wake up America! Remember Fort Hood!" line. So, in one drive-by moment, you see a billboard basically accusing Obama of being an un-American, non-American traitorous Jihadi who may bear responsibility for the Fort Hood massacre.http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13843316

[Cha]

7. Thanks, otohara.

[butterfly77]

6. Why would anyone think that he wasn't born in America?

just listen at the half-assed explaination the male reporter gave at the end..These people are ridiculous...

[Hekate]

8. Psst: he's black. And Hawai'i is not like Real America.

Basically that's all they've got: prejudice.

Hekate

[Colobo]

9. His name is an Arab name. It makes it even worse.

:sarcasm:

[Hekate]

10. Shhh. I know. What A Shock.

Oy.

Hekate