The old 'Miss Me Yet?' Billboard featuring the still vastly unpopular George Dubya Bush along the interstate was stupid. Instead of ameliorating the negatives of the previous president it only served to highlight and entrench how much he was despised and regarded with contempt as a failure of the right, both domestically and internationally.
But this exceeds that for stupidity, bad taste, and most of all for a failure of logic. It epitomizes what happens when extremism is expressed, where ideology dominates rationality, proportion, and most of all as we continue to see from the right, just plain factual basis in reality. It is the alternate world of fantasy where bizarre beliefs and implausible conspiracy theories operate, and where people clearly are out of touch with the rest of the world that a billboard like this could be put up and not be laughed and scorned to oblivion. This is the essence of intransigent extremism and unreality. There can be no meeting of the minds, no compromise, no moving forward when one side is this out of touch with objective reality, this delusional, this irrational and this hate filled. The extreme right now appears to live full time in Bigotville, alongside the river of Denial of Reality, in the state of Delusion, USA.
If Obama is guilty of any wrong doing in his foreign policy, it is not differing ENOUGH from the wars of George W. Bush, which has been responsible for most of the foreign policy based killings. Funny how the right, with the Bush Redux policies proposed by candidate R-money, seems to miss those realities.
From MSNBC.com:
But this exceeds that for stupidity, bad taste, and most of all for a failure of logic. It epitomizes what happens when extremism is expressed, where ideology dominates rationality, proportion, and most of all as we continue to see from the right, just plain factual basis in reality. It is the alternate world of fantasy where bizarre beliefs and implausible conspiracy theories operate, and where people clearly are out of touch with the rest of the world that a billboard like this could be put up and not be laughed and scorned to oblivion. This is the essence of intransigent extremism and unreality. There can be no meeting of the minds, no compromise, no moving forward when one side is this out of touch with objective reality, this delusional, this irrational and this hate filled. The extreme right now appears to live full time in Bigotville, alongside the river of Denial of Reality, in the state of Delusion, USA.
If Obama is guilty of any wrong doing in his foreign policy, it is not differing ENOUGH from the wars of George W. Bush, which has been responsible for most of the foreign policy based killings. Funny how the right, with the Bush Redux policies proposed by candidate R-money, seems to miss those realities.
From MSNBC.com:
Idaho billboard compares Obama to Colorado theater shooting suspect
"Offensive." "Abhorrent." "Pathetic." Words like that are being used to describe a billboard in Caldwell, Idaho, that compares President Barack Obama — unfavorably — to James Eagan Holmes, the suspect in the shooting deaths of 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last week.
The sign features photos of Holmes and Obama side by side. Of Holmes, it says: "Kills 12 in a movie theater with assault rifle, everyone freaks out." Of Obama, it says: "Kills thousands with foreign policy, wins Nobel Peace Prize."
The electronic billboard often blares anti-Obama messages, but this one struck people as especially insensitive. It's the work of supporters of the late Ralph Smeed, for many years a lightning-rod activist for libertarian causes in Idaho, The Idaho Statesman of Boise reported.
"This billboard is offensive to all those lives lost and affected by the shooting," wrote a commenter on the Facebook page of KBOI-TV of Boise, which first reported the story. "Just pathetic, even if this is their expression of the 1st amendment."
Another called it "insulting, ridiculous and just plain inaccurate."
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Maurice Clements, a former Idaho lawmaker who now keeps Smeed's tradition alive, told the Statesman: "We're all outraged over that killing in Aurora, Colo., but we're not outraged over the boys killed in Afghanistan."
Asked about the reaction to his billboard, Clements acknowledged: "That's a technique of trying to make a point, and maybe it was poorly done."
The sign features photos of Holmes and Obama side by side. Of Holmes, it says: "Kills 12 in a movie theater with assault rifle, everyone freaks out." Of Obama, it says: "Kills thousands with foreign policy, wins Nobel Peace Prize."
The electronic billboard often blares anti-Obama messages, but this one struck people as especially insensitive. It's the work of supporters of the late Ralph Smeed, for many years a lightning-rod activist for libertarian causes in Idaho, The Idaho Statesman of Boise reported.
"This billboard is offensive to all those lives lost and affected by the shooting," wrote a commenter on the Facebook page of KBOI-TV of Boise, which first reported the story. "Just pathetic, even if this is their expression of the 1st amendment."
Another called it "insulting, ridiculous and just plain inaccurate."
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Maurice Clements, a former Idaho lawmaker who now keeps Smeed's tradition alive, told the Statesman: "We're all outraged over that killing in Aurora, Colo., but we're not outraged over the boys killed in Afghanistan."
Asked about the reaction to his billboard, Clements acknowledged: "That's a technique of trying to make a point, and maybe it was poorly done."
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