Idaho billboard compares president to suspected Colo. gunman
CALDWELL, Idaho (KBOI) - A billboard in Caldwell, Idaho, is raising questions as it compares President Obama to accused Colorado mass shooting suspect James Holmes.
The billboard equates the actions of the president's foreign policies to the acts of Holmes, who's suspected of killing 12 people in the theater shooting.
The group that owns the board, The Ralph Smeed Foundation, says it wants to draw attention to military men and women dying overseas.
"(It's) way over the line, and I am not an Obama supporter," Lynn Davis Hathaway, said on KBOI 2News Facebook page.
A spokesman for the group says everyone has the right to their own opinion.
Ashley Helton, who also wrote on Facebook, agrees with the group.
"It's a free country, this group has a right to voice their opinion no matter what anyone thinks about it," Helton said.
LIberals:Â Truth hurts, doesn't it?Fast & Furious - what did the president know and when did he know it?
Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
This is ridiculous, no matter what side of the political fence you're on, to use a mass murderer to make a political point is wrong. This country needs to stop the hate, and turn up the compassion.Â
... Also I don't understand why people have to be either 100% Rep or 100% Dem. Each political party holds hundreds of different ideals. The fact that there are so many people in our nation that votes completely red or completely blue proves the point that we are way to easily influenced.Â
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I love this crap, especially the Obama bashing. Despite the fact that Congress really has more [or all] of the power in governing our insane country, I have come to the conclusion that no matter who is President of the United States everything is and will always be the president's fault.Â
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If we haven't guessed by now everything a presidential runner says during an election year is nothing more than lies and innuendos. A president can't take a crap without Congress approval. So, why do we cling to those champagne promises when we all know they are meaningless? Any thoughts or reputals?
And hundreds were killed by the Fast&Furious program under Obama.
No doubt about it, and still, nobody has been held accountable.
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Isn't funny how Congress will chastise another country for its miss deeds and blatant corruption, while the Republicans, the Democrats and Independents are a million times as guilty? Still, we keep voting them in. How stupid is that?
The Ralph Smeed Foundation should study who started the wars and then look at where Iraq is today versus where it was 4 years ago. They might want to put a different picture up there. Of course no self respecting organization stoops to these tactics when they know it is balderdash.Â
 @I812 4 years ago obama promised to end the war and bring all our soldiers home during his campaign. He also promised to release all the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. he so far has been less than interested in doing either.Â
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@Samuel Atwood @I812 HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE PRESIDENTS ACTIONS!!!! You must be a racist!! YES - this is SARCASIM
and i suppose the ralph smeed foundation believes like those other internet posters that 9-11-01 was a plot by the cia to start the war.
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 @feministdolphinbuddha Idaho: not just potatoes...
But potato heads like yourself???
 @feministdolphinbuddha Ah BUSH is the one who went to war. obama is the one winding down the war.Â
 @32jim2 Yep. winding down the war on the schedule that Bush put in place. . . Obama is a placeholder. he hasn't actually DONE anything in his four years except spend spend spend.
 @32jim2 you are right he is winding down the war.........as slowly as he possibly can. Though he promised to end it immediately and bring the soldiers home. if he was elected. 4 years later we still have soldiers over there. Question....how do you wind down a war? is he waiting for the batteries to die or something??
propoganda at its finest, bravo idaho, u just reminded me why I don't need to visit your state
 @dswizzy ya you are probably right.......being around all those people who use their brains when voting might be a bit of an intimidating experience for you. best if you don't visit Idaho.
Caldwell, Idaho. That about says it all.
Bush was hung in effigy and compared to Hitler.... so what?
 @Your Name Here . But that was true this is not...
While everyone has a right to freedom of speech -- unless that changes with the next President or the next Congress-- we as Americans must take a stand and force both Congress and the White House to forget their political ideologies and get this country back on track, by whatever means necessary. Unfortunately neither the Democrats or the Republicans want to. There is a change in the air and something definitely sticks in Washington, D.C. And, at some point in time we are all going to find out the hard way -- Liberals and Conservatives alike.
 @jallard With Obama and his love for circumventing the Constitution, this could happen sooner than later if he's re-elected.
 @shek069 Has the Constitution Ever been changed Or amended from it's beginning ????
It's called a living document because it changes as our country changes..
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 @cptmac11 you are right the Constitution is a living document and it has been changed and amended many times in our country's history.  If you look better men than obama have amended the Constitution and some with very bad consequences. Prohibition of booze is the most memorable mistake our elected leaders made......it led to the empowerment of organized crime and the deaths of thousands of people in America before it was repealed. Fact is one should not change the Constitution simply because one can. Remember it takes a 2/3 majority vote of the house and senate to change the Constitution......not the whim of one President.
Not to knock the few friends I have in Idaho, but this is what I would expect from them. It's not right. How quickly we forget (or remember) who put us into the foreign policy in the first place. Some day they will learn the the American public has a longer memory than they think.
Obama's Joker laugh...because he's pulled off the biggest con job in US history, he's made millions doing absolutely nothing, and he's never has to take responsibility for anything.
@Hellbilly AMEN!
 @Hellbilly And what have YOU done for the country, Hellbilly?
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Thought so.
@Mikey @Hellbilly wich is still better than the direction BHO has takin this country
@32jim2 @Motorhead79 @franksbeans @Mikey  Thats priceless..... a B HO butt smoocher demanding Mittens release information when B HO won't even release his  college transcripts   or  release his passportÂ
 @32jim2  @kramr  @Motorhead79  @franksbeans  @Mikey So true ....
But remember corporations are people too..
Mittens wants to be the first corporation elected to office of President...
Not going to happen...
 @franksbeans  @Mikey  @Hellbilly You sound like you have facts ..
Which direction has he taken this country???
 @kramr  @Motorhead79  @franksbeans  @Mikey mitt romney has millions in bank at caymen islands and won't release information which is against the U.S. Law on reporting all income when running for public office. romney another Nixon.
@Motorhead79 @franksbeans @Mikey @Hellbilly   """""Flat out refuses to release any information on his policies""""""
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Boy, you are a good sheep, blindly regurgitating the lefts talking points clearly without doing any research on your own. All you have to do is go to mittromney.com and click on the issues tab and you will get a rundown on the top issues. I even have a link for you just to make is easy.
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@Motorhead79 @Mikey @Hellbilly doubt that
 @franksbeans  @Mikey  @Hellbilly Yet it's still better than the direction ol' Robbedme wants to take it. You know, ship all jobs to China. No taxes for the wealthiest portion of the nation (Wants to remove Capital Gains tax which is the only tax that many of the 1% including Robbedme pay). Flat out refuses to release any information on his policies other than to say Obama's policies don't work. Hasn't shown any ability to manage foreign affairs (Look at London). I'd MUCH rather have Obama than Mittens the Clown.
 @Hellbilly Won a peace prize, Killed Osama and put forth national healthcare. That is more than nothin
 @CorporateCowMoo Yasser Arafat "won" a peace prize too (you don't actually earn these - your name just gets drawn out of a hat at a Bilderberg meeting)  The majority of people think Obamacare sucks, and Obama didn't kill Osama.  Anything else?
 @CorporateCowMoo  @Hellbilly No I don't think he killed Obama. Hello!?!?! Ever hear of Navy Seals?
@cptmac11 @CorporateCowMoo ...cptmac11..... Yep, maybe he should have...thanks
 @Your Name Here . Your point YNH? I was waterboarded also... part of my training. If you know your'e not going to die from the experience you don't freak out. Breath through your nose, and it will be fine. I had many different options to gather information... Being 6'5, and 245 pounds helped a lot... knowing my subject helped so I could play on their emotions, just the idea that something terrible "could" happen opened them up like a flood gate. Remember that what a person doesn't say can tell you a lot.
 Everyone talks in the end, and the big problem is discerning lies from the truth... that is what takes practice.
 @KHEB  @CorporateCowMoo  if not for George Bush Obama would never have had a clue ???
Maybe he should have called you???
 @Your Name Here . Because the people that were tortured years ago knew where he would be years later???
What a tater head did your parents have any children that lived?? Â
@Your Name Here . ...duh!............
If you want to get technical then consider when the President of Sudan offered the arrest and extradition of bin ladenâ¦.BUT, Clinton and National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger FAILED TO ACT! So now you are ignoring Clinton's mistakes so you can take it out on Bush? No wonder the country is such a mess. That wasn't the first time Clinton refused to take Osama and look at all the mayhem, not only the US, but the world suffered.
Clinton declined to 'make the tough choices when he had the chance⦠and left us open to further skullduggery from Osama and his henchmen.
The president who wagged the dog and let Osama get away now raises millions for the president who jokes about eating one while taking credit for Osama's deathâ¦.
What Obama did was sit in his little enclave and ordered the Navy Sealâs to take Osama outâ¦.not terribly hard Iâd say.
 @KHEB  @CorporateCowMoo If bush had read and/or listened to HIS OWN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORTS and stuck with it in Tora Bora and concentrated on OBL instead of an unnecessary war in Iraq, Obama wouldn't have had to finish the job right. Go reread the history on this, KHEB.
The intellegence to get bin Laden came from waterboarding.
@CorporateCowMoo ...ever consider trying to think for yourself?...Face it, if not for George Bush Obama would never have had a clue let alone let the Navy Seals take out Osama.....I doubt he found it hard to make the decision - if he hadn't then the world would have known for sure what a wuss he is.
 @shek069  @Hellbilly It was a hard decision to put our people in harms way. He did a stealth attack at night in a country who was our ally at the time. So yes he did kill Osama, he pulled the trigger and made the difficult decision to hit the compound. You know who the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines work for don't you?