UPDATED: Iowa Tea Party erects billboard comparing Obama to Hitler and Lenin

Associated Press: (AP) —A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is being condemned by other tea party activists.

The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the sign in Mason City last week.

The sign includes photos of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin with the statement: “Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive.”

North Iowa Tea Party co-founder Bob Johnson says the sign highlights what the group argues is Obama’s support for socialism. He says the pictures might be overwhelming the intended message.

Shelby Blakely, a spokeswoman for the national Tea Party Patriots, says the sign isn’t appropriate. She says her group opposes any comparisons of Obama to Hitler or Lenin.

The White House declined to comment. 

Now that 55% of Americans believe Obama is a socialist, this billboard isn’t going to be as shocking as it would have been a few months ago. Never the less, it is good to see that people have stopped pussyfooting around with whether or not Obama is a socialist.

The NAACP will no doubt slam this as more proof of Tea Party racism, even though less than two years ago, calling someone a socialist had zero to do with racism.  Today however, when it comes to defending Obama’s failed policies, any criticism can be called racist.

UPDATE: Clarification

Judging from the first comments I think I need to clear things up. I was not supporting comparisons between Obama and Hitler, rather I was supporting labeling Obama as a socialist. I should have been much clearer on that, but I guess since everybody and his mother gets compared to Hitler these days, the shock value of calling someone Hitler has worn off me. My bad. 

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Associated Press

Via: Fox Business

New Anti-Obama Billboard: Who Will Pay The Piper?

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to answer this question. For the answer, simply look into your children’s eyes. 

CNS News: Thanks to an advertiser who wishes to remain anonymous, cars and trucks on Arizona Highway 260 in East Central Arizona are driving by a billboard advertisement that recently went up, bearing President Obama’s face on what appears to be a mock U.S. $100,000,000,000,000 (One-Hundred Trillion Dollar) bill.  

The billboard’s caption: “But Who Will Pay the Piper?” 

Chuck Perrine of Jones Outdoor advertising in Tucson, Ariz., confirmed to CNSNews.com that his company created the 10 ft- by-40 ft. billboard, which he said “went up within the last month.” 

Perrine said the sign is located “near Linden (Ariz.),” but said that the advertiser is “not interested” in disclosing any further information about his identity--or his reason for purchasing the ad.   

I am a little surprised that this billboard in Arizona has an economic message rather than an illegal immigration message. Something tells me that some enterprising Arizonan will remedy that shortly.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: CNS News 

Billboard: Mr. President, I need a freakin job

Obama was in Buffalo, New York today visiting a metal fabrication plant and enjoying some Buffalo Wings with fries (Michelle is gonna kick his ass).  While there, this snappy billboard went up in time to greet him. 

(CNN) -- "I need a freakin job."

That's the message on a billboard that went up in Buffalo, New York, just in time for President Obama's town hall meeting there Thursday.

On CNN's American Morning, the creator of the billboard, Jeff Baker, said he was inspired to help pay for the eye-catching gimmick because he wanted to "refocus the national dialogue" back to "basic job creation."

When the economy went south, Baker and his brother lost their 10-year-old textile business, which employed 25 people. Their family's woes are reflected throughout the city of Buffalo, which suffers from one of the country's highest poverty rates, with nearly 30 percent of its population living at or below the poverty line. Buffalo's unemployment rate is at 8.6 percent, while the national average is 9.7 percent.[…]

Baker is asking for more frank discussion that leads to tangible job creation.

"I would love to sit down and talk about the small-business perspective, a beer-jobs summit with regular knuckleheads like me," he told The Buffalo News.

The billboard has inspired a Facebook movement, found by searching for inafj.org. Close to 1,000 people had said they "like" the site and had left encouraging messages on its wall when the billboard made national news Thursday morning. 

I can feel Mr. Baker’s pain, but the only thing government can do to create real private sector jobs is to get out of the way. Unfortunately, this administration is firmly locked into the belief that government is the answer for all.

Below is the CNN interview of Jeff Baker.

Here is the full video from inafj.org

Also check out the INeedaFreakinJob channel on YouTube.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: CNN

Via: inafj.org

Say it yourself! Anti-Obama billboards by BillboardsAgainstObama.com

You just cannot keep capitalism down. An online company called billboardsgainstobama.com has sprung up and allows you to contribute or buy your own anti-obama digital billboard. So far several have popped up in Atlanta. 

WXIA-TV:The billboards are the latest move to sway public opinion -- and for a price you can have your say.

The signs are in a series of four digital billboards ranging in price from $2,500 to $3,500 a month. They offer pre-packaged messages like "Stop Obama Socialism," or one that can be seen at Spaghetti Junction saying "Now it's personal."

The group behind the billboards call themselves BillboardsAgainstObama.com. 

If the Obama administration wants to stop these billboards, they need only continue their current policies, because soon no one will be able to afford the $2,500 - $3,500 price tag.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Wxia-TV

The Jimmy Carter Miss Me Yet billboard

You know Obama really sucks when Jimmy Carter starts looking like a better option. The billboard is real and is located in Ennis, TX. I-45 and 287. 

Story Balloon writes:
I’m loving these, people. Keep them coming.
Now, please tell me it’s another small business owner. I see a Small Business Party coming!

This actually is the second Jimmy Carter billboard. The first one went up in Grand Junction, Colorado and small business owners put that one up too.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Story Balloon

The Reagan Billboard: Remember real hope and change?

Some people in Minnesota are really missing the Republican presidents. First it was the Bush “Miss Me Yet?” billboard and now we have the Ronald Reagan "Remember Real Hope and Change?" billboard.

From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air we learn the billboard is quite real and no word as to who paid for it.

Somehow, I think people will miss this man more than the one featured in the “Miss Me Yet?” billboard that appeared outside the Twin Cities in Minnesota last month.  Another anonymous advertisement has appeared on the roadside of a major interstate freeway in the outer-ring suburbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolis area, on I-94 just outside of Albertville on the way from St. Cloud to Minneapolis.  This ad recalls a President that never got his due in Minnesota:[...]

Who paid for this ad?  There are no indications on the sign itself, just as with the previous “Miss Me Yet?” sign with George W. Bush.  Ronald Reagan never won Minnesota in either of his two national elections, but clearly someone recalls him fondly.  It’s not cheap to pay for this kind of advertising, and it would be interesting to discover who’s behind this one.

Morrissey confirms with Outdoor Advertising that the billboard is not a Photoshop and even cites an eyewitness account.

Unlike the Bush billboard, I can answer this question with big fat YES!  Expect to see a lot more of these messages coming out as Obama fails to live up to the hype. At the rate Obama is going, I would not be surprised if a "Miss Me Yet?" billboard of Jimmy Carter shows up somewhere.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Hot Air

The “Impeach Obama” billboard

First we had the “Miss Me Yet” Bush billboard and now an unnamed company in Wisconsin has erected the “Impeach Obama” billboard. 

An unnamed company has paid for a billboard along Highway 41 inOshkosh that reads, "Impeach Obama."

The tagline says: "America's small businesses are failing; help us spread the message."

It was paid for by an unnamed company represented by Tom Wroblewski who told the AP the sentiment is that Washington politics are bad for small businesses. 

The billboard is scheduled to remain up for at least six months, at a cost of $1,000 per month.

Jef Hall is the chairman of the Winnebago County Democratic Party. He says having a bad opinion of the president doesn't mean there's been an impeachable offense.

Wroblewski says despite the billboard's language, he's not suggesting Obama committed an impeachable offense. 

The term Impeach Obama is sure to grab attention, but the fact remains Obama has not done anything yet that rises to an impeachable offense. So in that regard this billboard is much less effective than the Bush billboard.

The fact that people are willing to shill out so much money to put up these messages really speaks to how bad Obama has failed to live up to expectations. It took eight years for Bush to become so unpopular, yet Obama has grown almost as unpopular in little over a year.

Small business owners are clearly not feeling very Hopey Changey these days.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: NBC Chicago

Miss Me Yet? The mystery of the Bush billboard

Someone has a real sense of humor and a wallet to match. This billboard of Bush mysteriously went up in Wyoming, Minnesota along I-35 and no one seems to know who paid for it.

I would not be surprised if a local Tea Party sponsored the ad. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if this billboard started cropping up everywhere like the Obama Socialist poster?

NPR speculates about the message of the billboard:

  At first glance, it would seem to be from some person or group who isn't thrilled by President Barack Obama's performance so far -- unless it's a more ironic message from those who didn't think too much of Bush and want to remind voters about him.

I don’t think this billboard has anything to do with an ironic message. It seems more like it is asking, “How’s that Hopey Changey stuff out working out for ya”? 

Who do you think paid for the billboard?

Via: Memeorandum

ViaL NPR