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Sep. 20, 2012 12:09pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Texas Man Bud Johnson Hangs Chair Representing Obama

Image source: Burnt Orange Report

A Texas man hung an empty chair from a tree in his front yard in a display he said was meant to represent President Barack Obama.

A man who identified himself over the phone as Bud Johnson of Austin, Texas confirmed to TheBlaze he was the homeowner written up in a Texas political blog who “lynched” an empty chair as a presidential effigy. Burnt Orange Report on Wednesday posted a photo of the folding chair hanging by a rope from a tree branch.

“It is and I put it there,” Johnson told TheBlaze, confirming the photo and that he was the one who put the chair up. “I don’t support Obama and the empty chair and that’s why.”

Johnson, who said he is a Republican, said the display was a reference to actor Clint Eastwood’s “empty chair” routine at the Republican National Convention last month.

Asked about the racial connotations of hanging something meant to represent the president, Johnson responded, “I don’t really care.”

Asked how long the display had been up, Johnson replied, “None of your business,” but said it was still there and that he plans to keep it up.

Johnson said he had received no complaints about the display from his neighbors.

As Burnt Orange Report noted, Johnson was a homeowner’s association “Yard of the Month” winner in August 2010.

(h/t Gawker)

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Nevermind
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:51pm
flipper1073
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:37pm
@ NEVERMIND
You weren‘t around in the 50’s or 60′s
then were You ?
Most Democrats were Racists back then.
Truth be known still are put they pander to Minorities
for their Votes LBJ started it in the 60′s
*****

I wasnt around for the French Revolution or JFK’s murder but i am aware of both just as i am familiar wiht political history. I am also familiar wiht the Southern Stategy as well as the GOP bumper sticker of ” The GOp was the party that passed the civil rights act” when in fact that was a bill from JFK origianlly opposed by the republicans

Spare me your myopic view of history, i dont need a lesson

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- woodyee
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:03pm
  JFK’s bill didn’t vote for the Civil Rights Act of ’64. Democrats were dragged to the signing table kicking and screaming, knowing Republicans were going to push the Bill over the top and pass it.
  
  You shouldn’t have to be told that if you’re so knowledg…
  
  oh, nevermind!
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:22pm
  Since we are talking about history……In Texas they used to hang bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle rustlers, hucksters (which included dishonest politicians) and murderers routinely ….generally people who committed crimes against the community were judged, if found guilty they were then hung, sometimes at the gallows (often in larger, richer towns), but most often from a tree.
  
  Is this man’s actions “insensitive” to more recent history of black lynching’s? Yes, but to assume that that a “lynching” and not western justice was his message is due to your social bias, seeing a white hood behind every tree and rock, and not necessarily his.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:24pm
  Did you also know that Lyndon B. Johnson, the racist democrat, was quoted as saying “I’ll have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years!” in reference to The Great Society?
  
  Looks like that racist democrat knew black people better than 95% of them know themselves. If I were black, I would hope that I would be among the 5% who honor the truth in MLK’s dream, and not among the 95% who choose to put on the yoke and pull LBJ’s plow.
  
  It’s hard to blame a group of victims for being victimized and deceived, but when they absolutely refuse to hear the truth behind the lie and choose instead to continue being victims through willful ignorance of that truth, it becomes easier and easier.
  
  If there were more honesty in names, The Great Society would be called The Rebuilt Plantation.
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:24pm
  @ NEVERMIND
  Apparently You do need a Lesson
  an not from a revisionist History Book.
  not sure about John Kennedy but Bobby Kennedy
  Aboslutely Hated Martin Luthar King Jr.
  as did LBJ. The KKK was founded by Southern Democrats.
  But they saw the Minority Vote as one they could use to
  their advantage.Been that way ever since.
  
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- MONICNE
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:53pm
  Tomorrow is POW/MIA Recognition Day in the United States.
  
  Please pause a moment to remember those who gave their all for their country.
  
  Spend 10 seconds to consider the sacrifice of families and friends who still wait, and the tireless teams who work each day to bring closure to loved ones.
  
  POW/MIA 21-9-12
  
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- jzs
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:06pm
  The Blaze didn’t give this story justice. You ought to follow the link. Here’s part…
  ——
  We have a sad and awful history of white people lynching African-Americans in Texas, and this history is exactly what this Republican’s front yard display taps into…
  
  This is the specific and deliberate use of a racially charged act of violence — lynching — perpetrated by white men against African-American men and women. When you add a Republican symbol for the first African-American President into the mix, you get a pretty awful picture — the one you see at right, and one that can be seen on a front lawn here in leafy, quiet Northwest Austin.
  
  We’re a state that has a horrific history of hate crimes, and given the new context of the “empty chair” created by the Republican Party during their own convention gives this image of a chair hanging from a tree a decidedly sinister, and yes, racist, meaning.
  
  Updated 6:28 p.m. Wednesday I called the homeowner to ask about his display, citing my concerns as a fellow Austinite. He replied, and I quote, “I don’t really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don’t give a ****. If you don’t like it, don’t come down my street.”
  
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- Cataclysm
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:46pm
  @JZS
  
  Its called Freedom of speech and expresion. I don’t think its the right way to show your feelings about the President. And you don’t have to like it eaither but freedom of speech is a GOD given right that everyone has.
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:47pm
  JZS I live Northwest of Austin in the Hill Country, I know the history actually quite well, since there was a group of skinheads a few miles away from me who held some people hostage a couple of years back. Does racism exist yet today? Yep. So does extremism on both ends of every issue; Environmentalism, anti-war movements, smaller government movements, larger government movements, religion, race, gender….the vast majority of people are somewhere in the middle which would mean that the extremes are a rarity and not the norm. Because you recycle does not mean you are going into the Discovery Channel and shoot people over your perception that they are not doing enough to support global warming theory.
  
  The same goes for this case. Because this guy is a southerner, a republican and our president happens to be black, does not mean that he is a “racist” in his message.
  
  Bush was never strung up in effigy by democrats? Never a disparaging word from democrats uttered about Justice Thomas, Herman Cain, Allen West, Condi Rice, Macro Rubio?
  
  Racists do exist, but your own bias’ tend to get inserted into making judgments regarding other people’s motives. I think this guy, like many of us has just had enough. Enough of the PC crap, the accusations, the shredding of the Constitution, the aversion of eyes and enbrace of the radical muslims culture, while being told himself that his opinion is “dangerous”.
  
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- SnowKalBebes
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:58pm
  Grimmster is that you???
  
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- jzs
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:05pm
  AxelPhantom, you are correct. Hanging a symbol of Obama from a tree does not prove this guy is racist. Good point I guess. Why don’t you write into burntorangereport and explain that to them like this guy did. Set the record straight.
  
  http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/12757/an-open-letter-to-bud-johnson
  
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- single stack
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:14pm
  It’s called “hanging in effigy” and has a long history that predates the formation of the United States. It has nothing to do with race or lynching.
  
  Leftist nitwits.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:18pm
  Wish i knew where Bud lived here in Austin, would love to shake the mans hand, and to all of you crying racism, go F yourself.And to all of you who either think they know, or pretend to know about racism, or the hanging of blacks wayback when,there were just as many blacks hung up north as there were in the south,with those i the north , by mostly union people after the civil war…….but dont believe me, and i’m sure you will look it up……One more thing, there are more blacks killed today by other blacks, than the people of the south ever thought about killing…..
  
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- Maji
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:48pm
  Here’s the point…so if he’s is racist, he can be that way!
  So is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Charles Barkley.
  (The chair could be????)
  As long it dosen’t effect me.
  Obama most certainly is and that does effect me!!
  
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- Maji
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Oh JZK 1/3 of the people hanged in civil rights demostrations
  were White!
  Also you need a history lesson but I won’t do it.It would be a waste of my time.
  You have to be willing to learn!
  
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- neoconpunk
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:02pm
  JFK proposed the civil rights legislation, he didn’t vote for it, remember?? Dallas??? Oh well, anyway, Johnson pushed the legislation through congress but he didn’t agree with it. ALL the democrats including Al Gores dad and Senator Byrd were adamantly opposed to it. As were all the democrat governors in the south. (Wallace, Barnett…) The Democrats used to call it the “Solid South” because they could always count on those electoral votes as long as they opposed civil rights. Johnson even made derogatory comments about MLK during the whole process, neither Johnson or either of the Kennedy brothers liked MLK. It was the Republicans that forced the civil rights legislation through and Johnson signed it.
  I know they don’t teach much of real history in public schools, but surely you know how to use google, or maybe not.
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:08pm
  @JZS
  I checked out your burntorange link. Those morons are as bad as Tingles Mathews when it comes to perceiving racism. Here’s an example: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/12465/texas-am-conservatives-promote-their-club-with-racist-flyer
  
  If I lived in or near Austin, I’d drop by to shake Bud Johnson’s hand.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:14pm
  What’s scary to me is how privy JZS is to all this propaganda. He must work under some Soros branch, because he is always on the cutting edge of BS
  
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- cosette
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:37pm
  AJZS.. You have no idea how old and tired the race card has become…. blah….blah….blah. To most of us you sound like Charlie Browns’ teacher. Just a lot of noise. I’m with the Texan… I really don’t give a crap.
  
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- CitizenVetUSA
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:58pm
  The first civil rights bill about 1957 was Republican President Eisenhower and defeated by Democratic Senate leader Lynden Baines Johnson and after Kennedy was assassinated LBJ invented and stole the civil rights bill for the Democratic Party.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:28am
  I ran over a chair the other day thinking it was a skunk….dose that count? It was the white part I hit…
  
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- MacJedi
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:50am
  President Eisenhower pushed for a Civil Rights Act in 1957. SEVEN YEARS earlier than 1964. Just a reminder, Eisenhower was a Republican. OH, and why didn’t IKE get his way? He was blocked in the DemocRAT run Senate. They guy running the Senate in 1957 was some partisan hack named Lyndon Banes Johnson. That made LBJ so popular with Democrats that he was elected to be Vice President in 1960. A little hypocritical racism and political hockey seemed to work in 1960 (as now) for the DemocRATs. What really changed LBJ’s mind? Kennedy and his interns? Marilyn Monroe? Jackie? MLK?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:12pm
  JZS, LOL, your rant sounds as though you are describing the LBJ family. I guess Texas was smeared with the bigotry and racism he and his father brought upon it. Had JFK not gotten the Civil Rights bill off the ground before his death, we may never had heard his famous “Next 200 Years” speech. Dem-wits
  
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mizzouwendy
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:49pm
My husband and I can’t have political signs in our yard, so we have an empty chair in our front yard, quietly supporting Romeny/Ryan, so far no complaints. So if you can’t have political signs support Romeny/Ryan by putting a chair in your front yard……….if you want to make it pretty put some mums and a pumpkin around it. Put that chair in your yard and be PROUD!

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:52pm
  So what if they complain? F them. Is there a law against hanging chairs in your front yard? Screw the progs.
  
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- truthseekerusa
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:23pm
  Mizz – great idea. Don’t want to start a battle with my Liberal neighbor. Maybe I should just clip a small flag to the chair to make my point.
  
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- QuincySmith
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:51pm
  mil-dot;
  
  Not yet.
  
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countryfirst
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:49pm
If you really want to get to Obama, hang a teleprompter.

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- ChristainAmericanman
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:59pm
  i agree
  
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Thompson54
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:48pm
Keep on talking Nevermind. As one of my favorite bumper stickers says, ‘If you voted for Obama in the last election to prove you weren’t prejudiced, vote for the other guy this time to prove you’re not stupid.’ If the lame stream media weren’t so deeply devoted to ‘Der Fuhrer’, he probably would’ve been impeached long ago.

The democratic party should be outlawed as they’ve become little more than a wing of the socialist party. Kudos for lynching that chair Mr. Johnson – I laughed for several minutes after seeing the picture and reading your comments.

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- Conservative2
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:28pm
  I love the “Vote for the American this time!” bumper sticker
  
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deedee96792
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:48pm
He has the right to freedom of speech.. EVERY American should stand up and exercise their right before it’s gone under the Nobama admin.

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- Nepenthe
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:56pm
  Exactly, free speech means he can put up a representation of a lynching and we can call him out on his obvious racism.
  
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- AnOregonian
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:28pm
  @Reddenblackhead, that’s quite the accusation coming from a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
  
  I fear you are nothing more than a hatchet faced nutmeg salesman…
  
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- ReddenBlack
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:37pm
  @anoregonian
  
  That’s quite a long sentence for meth smoking illiterate inbred.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:17pm
  Yes, everything is racist if it doesn’t toe the liberal line. Try a new one, prog.
  
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- AnOregonian
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:19pm
  @Redknucklehead Actually I borrowed it from a guy named Thomas Jefferson
  
  Sweet Lincoln’s mullet.
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:46pm
I admit that I am new to this, but I am fairly confident that hanging furniture from a tree is not allowed under Sharia law. He better run this by his local eMom.

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momrules
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:45pm
Oh get over yourselves. The man hung and empty chair from a tree and suddenly the racists are going to try to start wailing about lynchings.

I’ve had about enough of worrying about black sensibilities when the New Black Pity Party keeps calling for war with whites, killing white babies, putting bounties on a man and spreading their racist hatred with impunity.

Where is the black outrage to the NBPP?

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- woodyee
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:58pm
  Mom, I’ve heard the old cliche that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but your mind is also tantalizing – thanks for the great post!
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:37pm
  MomRules. Yes, she does. This comment proves it!
  
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- neither1
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:48pm
  Right! The New Black Panther Party is a bunch of racist, ignorant, militant, aggressive, self-indulgent cowards who actually believe whites are evil. They are a drag on society.
  
  So, let’s be just like that and hang chairs from trees that represent a black man, no less the President, and then tell everyone, “if you don’t like it, don’t come down my street”. Genius!
  
  Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from ridicule and scorn.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:30pm
  MOMRULES, I did notice that the chair was simply ‘tied’ to the tree, and a noose was not used. Apparently makes no difference.
  
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woodyee
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:44pm
In Chicago, a purported gay lover of Gaybama’s, Donald Young, was murdered before blowing the whistle on Gaybama. Gaybama is alleged to have been a member of Chicago gay club, Man’s Country. http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/mom-of-murdered-obama-gay-lover-speaks-up/

Gaybama HAD to know of Fast and Furious – the recent claims that he doesn’t attend National Security briefings are false, or efforts would have been started to remove him from office. Border Patrol Agent Bryan Terry had 2 (TWO) Fast and Furious guns abandoned with his body. Why? Were they planted, so as to allow Gaybama’s administration to claim that US guns had been used in Terry’s murder, so as to set up a national “crisis”, the kind that his administration doesn’t allow to go to waste, in order to force passage of more anti-2nd Amendment laws?

Gaybama KNEW in advance of the terrorist plot against the US Ambassador in Libya. Valerie Jarrett has 5 secret service agents protecting her, but the Ambassador to Libya had NONE assigned to him. The two SEALS that died with him had VOLUNTEERED to protect him. Was Gaybama in on a plot to set him up to create an international “crisis”, the kind that his administration doesn’t allow to go to waste?

Does anyone else notice a pattern here?

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- cause_glen_said_so
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:49pm
  You people are seriouly deranged and in need of some help, FAST
- 00100111
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:18pm
  cause_glen_said_so,
  
  Brilliant response. Must have taken you hours.
  
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- Couyon64
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:34pm
  That explains why he married the wookie.
  
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Nevermind
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:39pm
bharris0
Then you must not know any democrats as they were the folks that started the kkk and they are truly racist.

*****

You didnt do to well in history class huh? If you did you would know there were southern and northern dems as well as the same for republicans. actually rather than explain a thing to you just stay stuck on stupid. It will make your reaction to the GOP loss in November that much funnier

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- woodyee
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:46pm
  If YOU’VE got your facts straight, why not do the honorable thing and provide him with links, you know, perform a public…
  
  oh, nevermind….
  
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- Joe1123
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:55pm
  I think it will be much funnier to see you guys literally sobbing in the streets when ROMNEY wins. Be careful about bragging junior, two months to go ….
  
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- Owt_Raged
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:56pm
  Actually, he was pretty accurate. The KKK was a democrat based society, that required proof that you were a democrat in order to become a member. So southern or northern, if you were a republican, you weren’t getting in except with special permission.
  The history taught in school is so far from accurate and has been for 40 years.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:00pm
  bharris0 is right. You are wrong. Nevermind, you have put your ignorance of fact on full display, once again. Perhaps you might think about learning the history of the racist party that you, not unlike a slave, continue to support. A republican president named Abraham Lincoln freed the blacks in America from slavery 150 years ago, and it amazes me that in that amount of time a full 96% of their progeny have returned to the plantation to serve their masters in the DNC.
  
  Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the SPLC, the NAACP are ALL “overseers” on the DNC plantation. They get paid to keep their people in chains, and 96% of the black population can’t wait to get down on bended knee for them and their masters.
  
  The ignorance of the people who play the race card against Republicans and white Americans, who want nothing more than for EVERY American to be free, is absolutely astounding. They call free men like Allen West and Herman, who wish nothing more than to remove the chains from their brethren, Uncle Toms and race traitors. Meanwhile, this 96% rush to the ballot box to make sure to empower racists and deceivers, the REAL race traitors.
  
  Educate yourself, Nevermind! Recognize truth, and stop rushing to believe the lie. When you see the light, share it with your brothers and sisters, even if they call you an Uncle Tom, because freedom requires sacrifice and slavery only requires obedience to your master.
  
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- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:01pm
  A mind is a terrible thing to, uh, mm, well, nevermind.
  
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- CLEttinger
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Democrats formed the KKK
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
  “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party”
  
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- momrules
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:21pm
  WOOL FREE VISION…………..Excellent Post. I applaud you.
  
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- guntotinsquaw
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:24pm
  Nevermind, you obviously didn’t do well in History or English class. So, let’s look at the history of the Democrat Party. Oct. 13th, 1858 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, US Senator Steven Douglas (D-IL) states “I do not regard the N egro as my equal and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever” Douglas became the Democratic Party Presidential nominee for 1860. The last time I looked Illinois isn’t “southern”. April 16th 1862, Lincoln signed a bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia; in Congress 99% of Republicans vote for, 83% of Democrats vote no.
  
  On July 17th 1862, over unanimous Democrat oppisition, Republican Congress passed the Confiscation Act granting freedom to any Confederate slave. April 9th,1866, Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnsons’ veto of the Civil Rights Act 1866. June 8th 1866, the 14th amendment was passed with 100% of Democrats voting no.
  
  So let’s jump to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd fillabustered for 14 hours. Republicans again pass what is necessary with Democrat help. There is no difference made by the Mason Dixon line when it comes to the truth or racism. The first Republican Party Convention of Texas was 150 blacks and 20 whites. The fact is, 90% of Republicans in the south, were black.
  
  The nonsense you’re telling has been the biggest spin of the truth ever placed upon man. I will give the Democrats that, they are excellent liars.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:51pm
  GunTotinSquaw, I give your comment 10 out of 10 for truth. That was good stuff, and well said.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:16pm
  Ever read ‘History in Black and White’ by David Barton? I’d buy it from Barnes and Nobles, but I’m poorer than a church right now…
  
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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:38pm
Should be a “director’s chair” since he’s trying to run the nation like it was a hollywood production.
They hung Sara Palin and the liberals cheered in 08. And that was a true likelness, not a CHAIR.

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obfuscatenot
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:35pm
Probably had to put it up there so nobody would steal it.

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- angelcat
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:43pm
  No, remember we can have guns here in Texas and we are allowed to protect our property – not that I would harm anyone over a chair. :)
  
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- PurrrpleMtnMajesty
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:52pm
  Gutfeld said something like “In Texas, even the trees have balls.”
  Yup…..that’s really saying something for Texans.
  Freedom of speech….only OK when the Left does it? I don’t THINK so.
  
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:34pm
Must of watched a Cliet Eastwood movie , ” Hangem High “

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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:34pm
Anybody that sees that chair as being ‘lynched’ is merely projecting. It’s a tribute to Clint Eastwood’s HAMMERING of Obama at the RNC. Good for the homeowner. Beers to you.

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- loriann12
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:46pm
  Anyone who would see a chair as lynched and call it racist, has racism on the brain. The chair isn’t even black. And Democrats lyinched Republicans that were white, too. AND most blacks during the civil war were Republican. I personally don’t agree with the lynching of the empty chair, as it denotes violence against a sitting president, but it’s his choice. I have an empyt chair beside my flag, because I figure that’s as close to a US Flag that Obama wants to get.
  
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- 65Mustang
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:12pm
  Agree with your post…nothing to indicate a “lynching”merely a statement against Obama.
  
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Quagaar Warrior
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:34pm
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Since the left is always so quick to claim 1st amendment rights for their freedom of expression, simply call it art.
(Urinate on it first though.)
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:33pm
  BRAVO! You win. :-)
  
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Nevermind
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:33pm
hegreatcarnac
I never met a racist that wasn’t a democrat. They fake a smile among the blacks but work diligently to keep them tied up in project housing, stoned and angry. I met very few blacks who were not racist toward white people. Whites are not the ones that are constantly perpetrating crimes on blacks and blacks are not being threatened by white organizations calling for the killing of their babies. ‘Nevermind’ is wrong and biased him/her self.

******

I feel bad for you . BTW, Im black and dont live in government housing so before you speak for black peopel let an actual black person do it for you since you are wrong. I must hate whites alot since Im black right? Hard to square that logic with my white mother and my white wife along with my child by her. Idiot.

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- RoBoTech
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:58pm
  Well, are you precious!
  You are the exception, NOT the rule, lil’ buddy.
  STOP IT.
  The mand spoke the truth. Just because there is a habdful of blacks that CLAIM they don’t hate whitey, that doesn’t meanthat <OST Blacks claim to hate Whitey.
  Got that?
  It's like saying that because a few Muslims in the USA don't agree with Shariah, yet look at who's rampaging. That handful, or the majority?
  Or like you saying you don't hate whitey, yet EVERDAY in some big City, a mob of young Blacks violently attack, wait for it, WHITEY.
  Get over yourself, it isn't working out for you.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:32pm
This man has a good idea. Empty chairs should show up everywhere; hanging in trees, sitting in fields, and mailed to the white house.

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- neoconpunk
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:04pm
  You could even glue one to Obama’s behind…….and it would still be considered an empty chair.
  
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JimL
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:31pm
blog stinky trap

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flipper1073
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:30pm
Great Idea,
Make it part of your Halloween Decorations
I know it’s Kinda Early but Halloween is only a few days
Before Election Day .
I don’t Decorate for Halloween but I will hang an empty chair.

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floridareader
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:20pm
Just wait, tomorrow the brainless community association will send the homeowner a letter warning they cannot put an empty seat in their property. Just wait….
If that happens, the homeowner just need to set up a whole dinning set for the empty cabinet.

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- red_white_blue2
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:25pm
  If I where him, I would have stayed silent until election day, and then after the results, say that “oh, btw, that chair that’s been hanging in the yard for the last two months, is Barry”. Then if please God Romney wins, he could say, “guess we can cut him loose now”–and post the cutting down for You Tube.
  
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- Obama Snake Oil Co
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:32pm
  Well, he should send a letter back to them saying they cannot use their TVs to display the empty chair in person…..
  
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- ChristainAmericanman
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:06pm
  i agree with you red white and blue, i wonder how many views you would get….
  
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:19pm
Government goons with truncheons in 3, 2, 1…

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NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:15pm
Can you hang an empty suit along with the empty chair?

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:35pm
  Find RINOmney’s suit size, and hang it right up there.
  
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yanki161
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:15pm
Love it!

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Nevermind
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:13pm
Stay classy GOP. Great idea to hang it from a tree, that ensure most peopel know the GOP is truly the party of racists. Not saying all republicans are racist but i havent met a racist that wasnt a republican

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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:21pm
  Nevermind…..and I’m not saying all democrats are lazy FOODSTAMPERS,,,,,but all lazy FOODSTAMPERS are Democrats……..and voting for someone because he is black, in a 95% block, now that is straight up RACISM……..And those are ALL DEMOCRATS !!!!!!! Now go check your mail, the government check may have arrived…………..
  
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- Psychosis
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:23pm
  oh bs
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:24pm
  I never met a racist that wasn’t a democrat. They fake a smile among the blacks but work diligently to keep them tied up in project housing, stoned and angry. I met very few blacks who were not racist toward white people. Whites are not the ones that are constantly perpetrating crimes on blacks and blacks are not being threatened by white organizations calling for the killing of their babies. ‘Nevermind’ is wrong and biased him/her self.
  
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- cause_glen_said_so
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:26pm
  nevermind….’but i havent met a racist that wasnt a republican”
  I would not go that far but this man is and has admitted it. The interesting thing will be seeing all the beckerheads on here loving it and admitting one and the same
  
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- cookcountypatriot
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:26pm
  awww just poking a lil fun at the empty suit in the white house…lighten up….thats the problem with progressives…i mean you guys have funny things too…nancy pelosi….that turd is hillarious…harry reid…now theres a bundle of laughs…how a bout ows…oh my god….hippy wannabes on parade…and of course the empty chairs foriegn policy in the middle east..a rip roaring joke…one would think the empty chair is a muslim its so funny…if it wasnt the fact that we the people have been sold out to this stain it would be funny
  
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- bharris0
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:29pm
  Then you must not know any democrats as they were the folks that started the kkk and they are truly racist.
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:29pm
  I’ve never met a dem that wasn’t utterly, entirely, completely, and let me be clear, with out any uncertainty of doubt, prejudiced. It doesn’t mean they all are, I’m simply looking forward to meeting one that isn’t. Unfortunately, you are not that dem.
  
  And by the way, the Civil Rights movement was forwarded and progressed by the Republicans despite Democrat interference. May want to remember that the next time you spout your prejudiced nonsense moron.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:30pm
  Strange, most of the racist I’ve run into were all socialist like your dear leader, not to mention all the Rep effigies hung in recent years.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:31pm
  I don’t know which is funnier. The story or your reply, psychosis. …still going…
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:35pm
  You’re wearing heavy blinders if you don’t recognize the legions of racists in the Democratic party.
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:37pm
  @ NEVERMIND
  You weren’t around in the 50′s or 60′s
  then were You ?
  Most Democrats were Racists back then.
  Truth be known still are put they pander to Minorities
  for their Votes LBJ started it in the 60′s
  
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- suran
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:51pm
  Then you better check your history…racists have always been Democrats. Start with the KKK, founded by Democrats, initially to go after Republicans who supported ending slavery. When that didn’t work, the KKK/Dems starting lynching and harming the blacks themselves. Do you own homework, lemming – check the Congressional records for the abolishionist votes through the 1800s – Dems 100% (yes, 100%!) against freeing blacks, Repubs 100% for. An earlier writer was correct – Dems smile at the blacks and nod as if they’re with them, but hold them back and subjugate them every chance they get.
  
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- PeoplesLibertysTeeth
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:00pm
  “Not saying all republicans are racist but i havent met a racist that wasnt a republican”
  
  Really? So do like go up and as for a voter id card after you’ve been verbally assaulted? “Hey random person that I overheard say the N word, do you mind if I get your political affiliation? That’d be swell.” To quote William Blake, “To generalize is to be an idiot.”
  
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cause_glen_said_so
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:12pm
Lynching a chair….nuf said

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- huey6367
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:18pm
  That’s what I saw. I was having a hard time putting it into words.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:34pm
  His only mistake was not tying an appropriate hangman’s knot. But I guess that would be considered a “hate-crime”.
  
  I wonder if me burning the Obama flag will be considered a “hate-crime” when I do it on the next 4th of July?
  
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ProgressivePete
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:12pm
Obama 2012, there is no way Romney can counter the argument Bill Clinton made in the DNC about why Obama deserves a second term

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:45pm
  Clinton’s argument? That the GOP controlled Congress submitted responsible legislation that generated an economic boom, all the while he was kicking and screaming against them? That argument? Did you even pay attention during the Clinton years?
  
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- ProgressivePete
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:17pm
  @GHOST OF JEFFERSON
  Bill Clinton deserves credit because he reached out to the Republican Congress to enable a balanced budget. Never forget Bill Clinton’s advice to balance the budget. It is only one word, arithmetic
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:51pm
  Aww, Pete, I knew the racist in you would come out sooner or later. I hope you enjoy following the largest group of slave holders the world has ever seen, the DNC.
  
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