Well, it is gone. I’ll tell you why. The point of the posting was being lost and the post itself and graphic was becoming the story. Which I never wanted to happen.
The point is, I made the far left have a knee jerk reaction. I also gave them something to talk about.
Again, as I stated in the actual posting itself, I never, ever wished any harm come to Obama, at all. I was simply making a point and doing exactly what the left is doing to Sarah Palin.
That is all, nothing more to see, move along…
Update: Well….Well…Well…. Look what we have here… This comes via WJNO’s News Junkie Blog:
Now are all you angry Liberals going to send death threats to this person too? (The person that posted it on Reddit, not the Radio Station.)
Hypocrisy, thy name is Liberalism.
Update 2: Seeing there are some of you Liberals, who still don’t seem to get it. Here is another example, that proves the point I was trying to make. Please, CLICK HERE and take a look. Again, you look at that and you tell me which is worse and who is stoking the race hatred in this race. Are you going to send this man death threats too? I doubt it.
Update 3: …and for what it’s worth at this point, not one person from the secret service, government, or anyone has showed up here at all. I did pull it, after all. But the main reason is, because if they arrest me, they’re going to have to arrest all the people that do stuff like this here. So, please stop with the hateful comments, I delete them all anyhow. The fact is, that the left is just as guilty of same thing that I attempted to do, albeit in a untasteful manner. So, please, spare me with your lectures, I know, I should not have went where I did. But you liberals have done the same stuff.
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The short version is, I tried a career change, and that didn’t work out. Got a job that my cousins told me about had to quit because it was making me physically sick. This was long before I started blogging.
Prepaid legal dude. Get some.
Well that was a balzy ad on your part, but i suspect that since it looks like they are winning, you will be in deep trouble. I understand that the liberal bloggers have already pressured the Secret Service to take you in and make sure that no one hears of you until after the election, at whuch point the Obama controled FBI and CIA will send you to guantanamo. But dont worry, as I and hundreds of other pro American blog readers will write protest letters about your imprisionment and abuse. Im sorry to see you go but we need myrters for the cause of America. On a personal note, i recomend you start practing holding your breath under water as i bet you will be waterborded by Obama’s people when they are in power.
Thanks. I think….. 😮
What worries me here, is that each candidate is being painted by the most extreme of his followers, and we’re allowing and engaging this misleading, distracting, and disgraceful tactic.
If the intention here was to mirror the coverage of Governor Palin, what you attempted to mirror was the most vicious elements within Obama’s supporters. Senator Obama himself declared Palin’s family off-limits. (Something I wish, whomever designed the tasteless cartoon above, had paid attention to.) As of yet, Obama has not attacked Governor Palin on Troopergate. So far it seems the candidate has only attacked Palin on her inexperience. On the other side of the coin, McCain has gone after the Ayers connection, but has not explicitly called Obama a terrorist, nor called for violence against him. McCain was even booed at a rally for calling Obama a “decent man.”
On either side, supporters are taking the dialog to far more controversial and often offensive ends. Absolutely, some liberals have gone out of bounds in their attacks on Governor Palin, and I can understand your desire to show them how low they have sunk.
But doesn’t this take us away from the candidates themselves, and what their actual message is? By engaging the worst in both parties we busy ourselves in baseless claims and disgusting remarks, when we have at hand two wars, an economic crisis and a energy crisis to contend with.
The natural rebuttal is to say that controversy breeds attention, and that the voting populace is more likely to take a look at a wildly off-color attack, than the details of an important bill. That more voters are turned on an insult than well-reasoned policy, and that like it or not that his how this election will be decided.
It seems defeatist to give up and say we are at the mercy of our lowest insticts, but beyond that, the election seems to be turning towards Obama on the issues rather than the scandals. Voters tend to side with Obama on the economy and that has fueled his leads so far, not attack ads.
I can understand the frustration at seeing groundless attacks lobbed at a candidate you support. And I can see the desire to satire those attacks to show how off-sides they may be. However, in creating and publishing that image as the lead, you engaged in the same practices they have. Satire runs that risk every time. While you may have been attempting to dissemble their strategy, you only aided it by responding in kind. You tried to speak to those who attack quickly and basely by speaking in their terms. The rest of the post may have been a subtle and deft dismantling of such attacks, but that isn’t the language of the smear artist. It would be ignored. That’s the point of your frustration. And you should have known what people would take from your post.
It did not help that you upped the ante. Some of the attacks on Palin have been horrible, but I’ve yet to see one calling for her death, especially as explicitly as your lead picture had. If the idea was to go to such extremes with the satire that it would be understood as such, that only would have worked in an election where McCain-Palin supporters hadn’t already yelled “Kill Him!” at a rally.
If your point was to dismiss these attacks as needless, and vicious, you did more in posting the cartoon of Governor Palin, than in your attempt at satire.
A Bad Road,
Your response was one of the most thoughtful responses I’ve gotten. Point Taken and I can assure you, I’m never going there again. It was, in fact, a very stupid foul on my part.
If I did have the chance, I would apologize to Obama personally. 🙁
-TLPC
TLPC –
Thank you for considering my comment. I greatly appreciate both your consideration, and your response. I now feel a bit bad for by coda. The writer in me wanted to sum up quickly. You may delete that at will.
– ABR
ABR,
Not at all. I know where you were coming from. I only deleted the last, because I thought possibly that you were attempting a swing. I perhaps misjudged. My apologies.
Again, thanks for the comment. It was well taken. 😀
TLPC