Another Racist Billboard

I thought the comments made about the president during Bill Clinton's term were pretty bad, and at times some of the comments made about George Bush were probably over-the-top too. But they both pale in comparison to the racist lies and accusations being hurled at President Obama.

It's as if having an African-American president has changed the rules of decency, and allows right-wing fundamentalists to spew forth their inner hatred without any consideration of right and wrong. There isn't even any consideration of whether a statement is true or not anymore. Even a lie or racist statement is OK as long as it is anti-Obama.

Consider the above billboard put up by a businessman in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. I don't think I've ever seen caricatures of an African-American that were more racist than the ones on that billboard. What makes these people think it's appropriate to flaunt their racism?

As for the jihadist thing, I guess they think the bigger the lie the better. Everyone with even a passing attachment to the real world, knows that Obama was born in the United States and raised as a christian. To deny either fact is to show a complete disregard for the truth.

But perhaps the worst thing on the billboard is the charge that President Obama is somehow responsible for the shootings at Fort Hood. I think that would be too sick a statement for even most Republicans to stomach (at least I hope so).

The person responsible for this billboard tried to justify it by saying the words "We are a christian nation" appear in the Constitution. Even if these words were in that revered document (and they are certainly not), how would that justify this racist lie-filled billboard?

Is this what christianity has devolved into? If Jesus really did live, would he have approved of the lying and the racism? This doesn't sound much like the christian religion I was raised in, but it is the religion that the right-wing theists would like to force on all Americans.

Frankly, I am appalled!