Rodeo clown wears Obama mask at State Fair - crowd approves

[Just in Atlanta]

While I will defend the right of this "clown" to mock the president, he shouldn't do it. It was wrong under Bush, and it's still wrong under Obama. He's the President. Show the OFFICE some respect.

The OFFICE should respect us. Seriously. Basic concept. THEY work for us. THEY are elected by us. It is not wrong, not in the least.

[Chef Jim]

While I will defend the right of this "clown" to mock the president, he shouldn't do it. It was wrong under Bush, and it's still wrong under Obama. He's the President. Show the OFFICE some respect.

 

So you're against caricatures of Presidents in political cartoons?

[unbillievable]

So you're against caricatures of Presidents in political cartoons?

 

If it's making fun of his policy, then no. If it's about making fun of the person? (like wearing a mask) then it's inappropriate and disrespectful.

There is a difference between making fun of a person vs mocking his policies. Showing Bush as a monkey? inappropriate. Drawing Obama driving the economy over a cliff, funny.

 

The people applauding this are just as bad as the people crying that it's racism; because you're only doing it to support your "team"

 

The OFFICE should respect us. Seriously. Basic concept. THEY work for us. THEY are elected by us. It is not wrong, not in the least.

What the hell are you talking about?

So you're saying that the fact that you picked them to serve you, gives you the right to do anything you want to them; and they have to take it graciously? Are all of you guys insane?

 

So it would be okay to you if I went to the white house, took down the portrait of George Washington and had a bunch of bulls run through it... no of course not, because we have respect for his service to the country.

[Rob's House]

While I will defend the right of this "clown" to mock the president, he shouldn't do it. It was wrong under Bush, and it's still wrong under Obama. He's the President. Show the OFFICE some respect.

 

I've heard this many times from people I respect, but I still don't get it. What is the rationale behind this unconditional respect for the OFFICE?

[Just in Atlanta]

Yikes.

 

That is unbelievable.

[Chef Jim]

 

 

If it's making fun of his policy, then no. If it's about making fun of the person? (like wearing a mask) then it's inappropriate and disrespectful.

There is a difference between making fun of a person vs mocking his policies. Showing Bush as a monkey? inappropriate. Drawing Obama driving the economy over a cliff, funny.

 

The people applauding this are just as bad as the people crying that it's racism; because you're only doing it to support your "team"

 

 

Now that I've had a chance to sleep on it I realize you're right. Because making fun of someone is just so darn mean.

 

If I were President I'd hold a press conference to say "My fellow Americans. Regarding that rodeo clown stunt the other day. That was some funny ass **** right there!"

 

Damm have we become so politically correct in this country that we can't make fun of each other? And don't answer that, that was a rhetorical question,

 

[Nanker]

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

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[Doc]

Barry is a clown. Having to resort to crying "racism!" is further proof of that. And I'll respect him when he shows he respects the Office.

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

Guys guys, its only funny if they do it, then its art and clever humor. If the right does it, the same act must be evil racist hate mongering barbaric jerks who should not be afforded the same benefit of doubt and artistic freedom the left knows how to use

[....lybob]

Back-lash from be critical of the President? who would have thunk? signed the Dixie Chicks

 

 

 

P.S. doesn't getting hundreds of death threats just suck the worst ? well not as bad as being blackballed banned and boycotted and having your livelihood destroyed but it's a close second.

[Chef Jim]

Back-lash from be critical of the President? who would have thunk? signed the Dixie Chicks

 

 

 

P.S. doesn't getting hundreds of death threats just suck the worst ? well not as bad as being blackballed banned and boycotted and having your livelihood destroyed but it's a close second.

 

I know and it only got worse when they bagged on Bush.

 

Guys guys, its only funny if they do it, then its art and clever humor. If the right does it, the same act must be evil racist hate mongering barbaric jerks who should not be afforded the same benefit of doubt and artistic freedom the left knows how to use

 

The backlash is not because he's the President or even because he's a Democrat. It's because he's black. Didn't you get the memo? You make fun of a black person you're a racist.

[DC Tom]

Back-lash from be critical of the President? who would have thunk? signed the Dixie Chicks

 

 

 

P.S. doesn't getting hundreds of death threats just suck the worst ? well not as bad as being blackballed banned and boycotted and having your livelihood destroyed but it's a close second.

 

The difference is that the Dixie Chicks were held up as heroic victims standing up for what they believed.

 

And still are, judging by your post.

[....lybob]

The difference is that the Dixie Chicks were held up as heroic victims standing up for what they believed.

 

And still are, judging by your post.

Jeez I thought the difference was the death threats and having Idiots vandalizing your house

[Wacka]

Obama wearing an Obama Mask:

 

 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/19048

 

Must be his white half being racist to his black half.

[OCinBuffalo]

I've heard this many times from people I respect, but I still don't get it. What is the rationale behind this unconditional respect for the OFFICE?

The rationale is simple: at some point somebody is going to come along and take the office of POTUS from the gutter it is in today. That person, be they R or D, is going ot have to try and get things done in that office. The more we denigrate the person holding the office the more difficult for the next guy to excute the duties of the office. IF this keeps happening, then we de-value the office and defeat our purpose as a nation.

 

That is the rationale. (And, if any think the sub-reference to the office/gutter is there by mistake, think again. I will leave you all to ponder it's significance)

 

However, IMHO, it has been misapplied as an excuse for bad/no leadership. It comes from the military. But, it is there for a specific purpose: combat effectiveness. IF we didn't follow the orders of some officer, because we didn't know him well enough to decide if he is worth listening to, then right there we cease to have an Army. Now we have a horde.

 

And yes, respect is a two way street in a free society. IF the POTUS disrespects the office himself, then that same office cannot provide protection from criticism. This is perhaps the biggest reason that GW BUsh got into trouble. He didn't respect the office enough to hold himself accountable to make the big decisions. Instead he turned many of them over to advisers.

[IDBillzFan]

Only placed here since it was the rodeo clown event that will likely be remembered as the event that nullified the word "racist," but this guy nails it.

 

Really bad time to be an Obamabot.

 

An American man has been under a sustained attack for a week now for simply treating this president like any other president. And the only words we’ve heard from the president’s spokesman is that this was not one of Missouri’s “finer moments.” Gessling has lost his job, been accused of committing a “hate crime,” seen his life basically ruined because the president of the United States couldn’t be bothered to tell a staffer to pass along that he said “knock it off.”

 

That’s because he doesn’t want it “knocked off.” Maintaining the “Obama standard” for critique of a president is far more useful to him than a clown in Missouri, a cop in Cambridge, Mass., an Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida or anyone else who may stand in his way.

 

Progressives in the media, in non-profits and elected office are happy to help because they benefit too. They get another day off the hook for their sins and those of their progressive forefathers who donned Klan hoods, mandated “whites only” signs and blocked school doorways. Another day of people not realizing those overt racist impediments to liberty have been replaced by the covert racism of the “helping” bureaucracy.

 

The methods have changed, but not the goal. That the president is black doesn’t matter; the agenda matters – and the power that goes with it.

 

The progressive agenda is advanced, its power obtained, by dividing people. That’s why so many have embraced the lower standard for this current president.

 

Luckily, fewer and fewer people are falling for this “equal-but-separate” deception. With each new day, there is more indifference to the politics of race. The president is sinking in the polls not because he’s black but because America does not accept his radical progressive agenda. Calling opponents racist will fall on deaf ears increasingly as time goes by because those ears aren’t deaf, they just know they’re being lied to.

 

Ruining the life of a rodeo clown won’t be the Berlin Wall moment for the politics of division. But that moment is coming. We see it in the polls, in the continued ratings drops for MSNBC. Before long, we will see it at the voting polls.

 

And it can’t come a day too soon.

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[Ralonzo]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/19048

 

Apparently clowns have been wearing Obama masks since at least 2007. Why is it suddenly a big deal?

[B-Man]

Apparently clowns have been wearing Obama masks since at least 2007.

 

Why is it suddenly a big deal?

 

Quite simple.....................................................................................distraction.

 

 

Foreign policy in shambles.

 

Economy stuck in neutral.

 

Obamacare realities coming to a head.

 

 

"look.....they're picking on our President because he's Black"

 

 

as predictable as the sun rise........democrats divide to keep power.

 

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[Doc]

Phony scandal.