US billboard compares Obama to Colorado ‘killer’ James Holmes

By Katrina Jones Jul 29th, 2012 ( 6 Comments )

Boise, Idaho: A billboard in the Idaho state of the US is comparing President Barack Obama with the Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes, projecting pictures of both side by side with comments some people say are offensive.

About Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theatre, the billboard says: “Kills 12 in movie theatre with assault rifle. Everyone freaks out.”

About Obama, it says: “Kills thousands with his foreign policy. Wins Nobel Peace Prize.”

Maurice Clements helps run the billboard as an executor for the estate of libertarian Ralph Smeed, who used it to skewer government and politicians before his death in 2010.

Clements told the Idaho Statesman (http://bit.ly/MPwcRn ) the latest message isn’t trying to connect Obama and Holmes, but compare society’s reactions.

“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, according to NBCNews.com. “Just pathetic, even if this is their expression of the 1st amendment.”

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Dajezzeny

If you place billboards in America and speak out on Zionism they are taken down in minutes….our racism is endless.
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Bryan

Maurice Clements is blowing smoke out of one of his body
orifices, and we all know which one.

He impotent claim that the billboard “isn’t trying to connect Obama and
Holmes, but compare society’s reactions” makes no sense at
all. Firstly, the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by society at large;
secondly, I’m unsure which of Obama’s foreign policies have killed
thousands. He directed the invasion of neither Iraq nor Afghanistan, and
has only done his best to extricate the U.S. from military involvement in those
countries. What killing of thousands is the fool referring to?

Had a family member, or friend, or neighbor of Clements been in the Colorado
theater when the killer started shooting, would he still be as ignorantly
insensitive to the people who were by displaying such a billboard?
- Bryan
  
  Correction: first one of second paragraph should have been HIS, not HE.
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