via TPM
An old-fashioned outhouse painted red and decorated with the words “Obama Presidential Library,” appeared at the Montana GOP convention this weekend, the local paper in Missoula reported.
A fake birth certificate for the president, stamped with “bulls***,” hung inside, while mock graffiti writing suggested: “For a Good Time call 800-Michelle (crossed out), Hillary (crossed out) and Pelosi, which got a red circle.
The Missoulian said the paint job made it appear that the outhouse, parked outside the Hilton Garden Inn where the convention took place, was riddled with bullets. Although it's not clear who created it, the outhouse also appeared during a Montana Memorial Day parade, the paper said.
The state GOP chairman made a half-hearted attempt to condemn the stunt:
“It’s not something I’m going to agonize over,” State GOP Chairman Will Deschamps told the Missoulian. “Some of that stuff is not real good taste. We do have a president of the United States, and we have to honor that.”
But isn't it something to agonize over? Doesn't a display like this make those who see it question what era we're living in, what it teaches our kids, and what it means to partake in American politics today? Isn't this more than "not real good taste"? Doesn't it call for the harshest condemnation available and doesn't it mean that once and for all birtherism should be buried by the right for all of its racist overtones and ridiculousness?
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HAHAHAhAH Awesome
So now if somebody displays political discourse it's called "hateful"? I seem to remember a lot of "hateful" displays against Bush II, but the word "hateful" was never used by MSNBC.
Yeah, like when the Dixie Chicks said what they did? Because they were allowed to exercise their freedom of speech, right?
I prefer to call them the after-birth(ers). What a bunch of brain dead morons.
It says a lot about anyone who would find that kind of display funny. If somebody made that kind of display with regards to Mitt Romney all hell would be breaking loose on Fox News...
Let's hope they don't get their wish to assassinate the President. Though obviously nothing short of that will make them happy.
Are you crazy then we would be stuck with crazy old Joe
Birthers, in Montana, are like finding Sea Turtles in Arizona. Most folks,in Big Sky country,
Get it. Their gov is trying to Undo 'Citizen's United'.
Crude an disgusting behavior by people who deserve no respect for their opinion....so childishly displayed. One only assumes they resort to such ridiculously childish behavior because they cannot conceive a more adult or informed manner of expressing themselves. Anothre reason I no longer support the Republican party. At the end of the day, they are people who who appear to be rude individuals who express themselves crudely. The party representatives and leaders are clearly not interested in what is best for America, they only care about doing whatever they can to demean and belittle the President, in my opinion, primarily because he is Black, not just Democratic. A sad commentary on the future of our country.
I wholly support free speech. I even support the free speech of racists and misogynists. That is part of the price for living in a free society.
In this display, the gender of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi is being used as a negative against them. Neither their words nor their actions are being criticized; their sex alone is under attack. As someone who likes women, I find this highly objectionable.
Regarding the racism, I am not willing to waste any more time on the birthers. It is one thing to be ignorant of the facts; it is something else entirely to be willfully ignorant.
Great comment!