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Controversial Painting at College Art Gallery Depicts Obama as Crucified Christ With Crown of Thorns

Nov. 26, 2012 5:56pm Jason Howerton

A painting that depicts President Barack Obama as Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns around his head and his arms outstretched like Christ himself when he was crucified is currently on display at a community college art gallery in Boston, Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes reports.

The painting is featured in a larger exhibit at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery titled “Artists on the Stump – the Road to the White House 2012.” The controversial painting will reportedly remain on display until Dec. 15. The painting is actually called “Truth.”

(Michael D’Antuono)

The artist, Michael D’Antuono told Fox News that his “First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings.”

“We should celebrate the fact that we live in a country where we are given the freedom to express ourselves,” he said.

D’Antuono blasted the conservative media for “trying to promote the idea that liberals believe the president to literally be our savior.”

“The crucifixion of the president was meant metaphorically…My intent was not to compare him to Jesus,” he added.

And in response to the barrage of roughly 4,000 angry emails, the artist says he respects “their right to express themselves” and hopes they will afford him the same right.

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ZAP
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:26pm
He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God
or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming
himself to be God. Anti-christ

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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:29pm
  Well, we got this guy and the fool Jamie Foxx thinking Obama is the savior, what’s next for liberals? How kooky is this going to get?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dZAKWPx604
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:39pm
  How would he feel if someone turned the painting upside down and put it in a vat of urine. Would he still be happy about freedom of speech?
  
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- VoteRightDammit
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:43pm
  Well, but he will have to come from Europe.
  
  So – we have another 4 years. THEN, presuming he does not Executive-Mandate himself a third term, he will move to Europe and become Grand Pubah of the EEC. From that platform he will broker a ‘peace deal’ with Israel, then move the EEC’s offices to Jerusalem, and set the game in motion.
  
  Lucky non-believers!
  
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- Two Sheds
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Wussy. Why didn’t he do that with Mohammad? Then let’s see some free speach! No he’d better not, that might kill another ambassador.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:59pm
  gosh …..i guess this finally makes me an athiest
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 7:00pm
  BHO still has a smirk on his face!
  
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- EdtheK
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 7:10pm
  The only good thing about this is that after 3 days will will not rise again.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:12pm
  VOTERIGHYDANNIT…..But then do you believe the U.S. is Israel? The country of Israel is JUDAH. We inherited the the “lost tribes”…..
  
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- arty6164
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:32pm
  Damn! Where’s the FFRF when you really need them? They should be right out front protesting this crap.
  
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- Machine7
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:40pm
  I challenge you to find the term “anti christ” in the book of Revelation….try and tell us what you find…I can tell you right off the bat…it isn’t there
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:59pm
  “First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings.”
  So if a painting were done, let’s say of Obama slipping into a truckload of horse manure…
  We have the First Amendment to override someone’s hurt feelings?
  But as for blasphemy, is ok to one but if said Obama was dressed as Mohammed slipping into a truckload of horse manure… then that is covered too?
  
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- FIREPROOF
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 9:26pm
  @ MACHINE7 Are you sure about that???
  
  1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that ANTICHRIST shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
  
  1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is ANTICHRIST, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].
  
  1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of ANTICHRIST, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
  
  2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an ANTICHRIST.
  
  Though I personally do not believe Obama is the final Antichrist that is in Revelation, he clearly is one who does not follow Jesus’ words and therefore…. like many, are antichrists
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 9:33pm
  MACHINE17 And your point is……
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 10:57pm
  No doubt President Obama is the anti-Christ. That’s a given. But so far all he’s done is given tax breaks to the average American citizen and helped the poor get access to health care. Thanks be to God the Republicans blocked his effort to improve America’s infrastructure! Surprisingly he didn’t declare Marshall Law and prevent the 2012 elections or take away anyone’s guns.
  
  As any self-respecting anti-Christ would, he’s declared himself by those things he has not done, like take away our guns or interred TP members in FEMA camps. It’s a diabolical plot to lure the populace into complacence!
  
  Now that he’s been reelected due to voter fraud, he intends to realize his desire to conquer the world via the UN and enslave everyone!
  
  Please everyone: stock up on guns. You may also want to hoard food and water and make a fortress out of you house, God willing. Or move to a desert island. The end is near my brothers and sisters. Got is great! Praise god, peace be upon you. This is end as foretold in Revelations, verse two, stanza nine.
  
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- rederthanyou
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:08pm
  Lets paint one of Muhammad and tell the the muslims to p*ss off. Our first First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings. I should celebrate the fact that we live in a country where we are given the freedom to express ourselves
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:37pm
  Per the Bible this is blasphemous. Exodus 20:4 says, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
  
  This sounds like the Muslims decree against any pictorial portrayal of Allah. What’s with that? I don’t know what the penalty is for making a likeness of this kind, but it can’t be good. Does anyone out there know what the Biblical consequences are for making a likeness of something in Heaven above or in the water below? Seriously man, the Bible wasn’t talking about, like, pictures of angels or Jesus or God or fish were they?
  
  Or has that biblical passage overridden by other passages?
  
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- Mustanger
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:22am
  @Winter, that’s great! I was thinking of piercing him, and sealing him in the heart of the earth for three days, Passover is coming.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:38am
  You can paint Obama as Christ but not with a target on his forehead now thats free speech.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:42am
  SENDINTHEMETEORS………Another angry lefty. You won the election, now go and take care of business….I accept Bah Rahk as president, but not as a deity….I will never. What is wrong with you liberal screwballs. You got what you want now go govern as best you can and leave the grown ups to try to fight this fight that you all have given up on. You don’t care about fixing anything, you just want to make a point….ok you made it….Now do something… you got the power….what good is it to you, if you don’t accomplish what you said you want to accomplish. Its like you got the gig, but you don’t want to sing the songs you know….You wanna do all new material….But the gig is tonight and you got no songs but the old wore out ones you been doin’ the whole time. crap or get off the pot.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:58am
  SENDTHEMETEORS wrote “This sounds like the Muslims decree against any pictorial portrayal of Allah. What’s with that? I don’t know what the penalty is for making a likeness of this kind, but it can’t be good. Does anyone out there know what the Biblical consequences are for making a likeness of something in Heaven above or in the water below? Seriously man, the Bible wasn’t talking about, like, pictures of angels or Jesus or God or fish were they?
  
  Or has that biblical passage overridden by other passages?”
  
  I build model airplanes and I go flying in the wind and I love it. I do not worship or pray to my model airplanes…..If I have to worship your false messiah Bah Rahk to get respect from you, I pass.
  I looks to me that you lefty sex fiends have made a little deity of Bah Rahk….and that is much worse than a ‘graven image’…little darlin’. You are terribly confused. and I still don’t know why you are so angry. Is it because Bah Rahk is looking weaker and weaker as time goes by. If my only and last hope was failing I guess I’d be angry too. Oh if you see Bah Rahk any time soon, please tell him I still don’t like state sanctioned abortion on demand…..Thanks.
  
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- greatgrandma
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 4:31am
  He looks like a gay man coming out of the closet
  
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- bertr
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:46am
  well there are many key things he would have to do that he hasnt done yet, but he has 4 more years to do them, i never thought he was it but i considered him as one paving they way, kind of like a reverse john the baptist. However i guess it could make a twisted sense he would pave the way for himself.
  Only time will tell, but its troubling to say the least after the last 24 hours
  
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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:14am
  Repulsive and blasphemous….GOD will NOT be mocked! The “artist” Mr. D’Antuono, better brace himself.
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:34am
  1st Amendment rights protect us only from governmental persecution, but do not protect Mr. D’Antuono from other forms of retribution. As an artist, he produces a non-essential product that he must sell. Having seen some of his other works, I doubt if any conservative will be inclined to buy any of his paintings. I would wager that relatively few to whom his painting would have any appeal could afford to buy them, or are even aware of his work. The flip side of the coin is Jon McNaughton, who has great success in marketing his anti-Obama art.
  
  If you have a strong stomach, check out D’Antuono’s Trayvon Martin painting at:
  http://www.artandresponse.com/paintings/a-tale-of-two-hoodies.html
  
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- TEARS FOR AMERICA
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:47am
  The cult-like worship of Obama is Jim Jones on steroids. When it all comes crashing down how drugged will they be with euphoria over a dictator who controls their food, electricity, water, and air? Loverly…
  
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- Juniemoon
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:03am
  if obama starts to claim he’s from the lineage of King David, then you can say he’s the anti-messiah. The anti-messiah will claim that to deceive the Jewish people into believing he is their messiah. The Jewish people know their messiah will be a heir of King David, he must fool them to be accepted by them, other wise he will not be able to go into the temple in Jerusalem to proclaim he is he nor will he go in and desecrate it. Obama is bringing in the system (Beast) to destroy. He’s the destroyer.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:14am
  Kinda makes you wonder, does it not?
  
  By the way, where are all the separation of church and state people?
  
  Isn’t this crap how emperor worship got started in ancient Rome? We know how they ended up.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:20am
  doesn’t the bible say the anti-christ will sit on the throne for seven years before the end of days comes…..
  Obama is getting his seven with 97% of the children of CAIN supporting him……We all know who is to blame. When everything goes south American needs to remmeber all the celebrities,sports stars,new anchors,journalist,Authors and people who put Obama in office……..and lay the hammer down on them.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:20am
  He is not the one holding himself up at the moment it is all the fools that worship him. I myself am not concerned as the rapture will occur before the anti-christ reveals himself and I am more than ready for the rapture.
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:26am
  @TWO SHEDS
  “Wussy. Why didn’t he do that with Mohammad?”
  
  Judging from his other artwork, he’s too hung up on glorifying Obama and vilifing conservatives to branch out that far. The nearest he’s come to offending ******* is http://www.artandresponse.com/paintings/and-justice-for-all.html
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:44am
  ‘Anti Christ’… ‘against Christ’… sounds like a lot of people in the world. I know it’s semantics, but the world is full of ‘anti Christs’ and every one of them will bend their knee before Him and condemn themselves for their unbelief. And that is part of John’s teachings.
  But for this world to escalate the Dark Lord to Christ status is not himself lifting himself above all things Christ(ian), though he has been encouraging such blasphemous activity in everything he does every where he goes.
  So he is an anti-Christ, though mayhap not ‘the’ anti-Christ. Someone has said the anti-Christ will be European… who has the real evidence of Hawaiian birth? or European? (Though I slant to the idea that the anti-Christ will not necessarily be European so much as he is an Israelite, judging from some descriptions of him from Scriptures.
  
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- Luke21
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:10am
  @SendTheMeteors
  
  “But so far all he’s done is given tax breaks to the average American citizen and helped the poor get access to health care. Thanks be to God the Republicans blocked his effort to improve America’s infrastructure!”
  
  Seriously? Now who is delusional? The HC law requires all to carry health insurance (oddly, not even to 100% of the population get it – I guess 2700 pages of legislation couldn’t cut it), NOT health care.
  
  Forcing employers to reduce the amount of taxes w/held does not = tax breaks. Nor does doubling the cost of energy (e.g. gas) & commodities through regulatory & fiscal policy (inflation = tax on the ignorant & poor).
  
  & doubling down on the debt, also good for “the average” folks? I know, “bush did it too”! Well only in your world (& our ruling class’), do 2 wrongs make a right. Stop blaming everyone else for the failures, especially the impotent republicans who couldn’t stop a nosebleed. Having a super majority in congress, allowed the President to do things not done since the 30’s under FDR (& that was certainly helpful, leading to nearly 2 decades of economic turmoil & a world war). Let me guess, “hoover did it too”. Fools.
  
  As for Exo 20:4, it is forbidding idolatry in Israel. Read Romans 1:16 – 2:12 – it is to the point (& to all men) & covers this present God hating, materialistic, earth worshiping generation especially well.
  
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- retiredso
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:55am
  Some things cannot be stopped. Like Judas betraying Jesus, even if he could have been stopped. It was to come to pass that Jesus was going to be betrayed. Same with the sign of the times, if it is God’s will to start wrapping things up here on earth, then it will happen, our job is to continue our work here on earth and pray and show people the right way to get to Heaven. God does not believe in separation of church and state and as demonstrated all through out the bible, sooner or later God will bring judgement on people. Repent because the Kingdom of God is near.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:23am
  MAX JONES says, “You are terribly confused. and I still don’t know why you are so angry. Is it because Bah Rahk is looking weaker and weaker as time goes by. ”
  
  I’m angry? That’s odd, I don’t feel angry. Confused too? And “Bah Rahk” (that’s cute MAX) is looking weaker and weaker three weeks after an electoral landslide and Republicans caving on pre-election issues?
  
  MAX, you really have a unique view of the world that, frankly, seems extremely subjective.
  
  Okay, let me try. I think you are having trouble coming to grips with the fact that the average American disagrees with your views, and the next generation (young people) disagrees even more strongly.
  
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- apexmoon
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:07pm
  “My intent was not to compare him to Jesus,”
  
  And yet he did…metaphorically or not, that’s exactly what he did.
  
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- BonnieC3
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:13pm
  As an artist, I would not censor this guy’s so called art, but at the same time, the fact it is so shocking gets it emblazoned all over… and in doing so, makes it and him famous, (or in my opinion; infamous). I would like people to know that there are artist out there who are not painting such… (expletive). I would like to offer as example a very politically incorrect painting I’m working on:
  http://www.bonniechilders.com/There-Is-No-Other-Stream.html
  
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- jst1425
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:21pm
  From Prague, The Perfect Quote:
  
  Occasionally people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that can be quickly understood; this quote – from the Czech Republic. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon
  
  “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”
  
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- glassbeadlady
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:16pm
  NHwinter, that is were it should be.
  
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- lefty5005
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:39pm
  I would like to piss on the POS artwork.
  
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- mdlwoods
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:18pm
  In response to voterightdammit:
  
  He is to be of middle easter descent, which could just mean he is of muslim descent. Obama is of muslim descent. Obama fits the criteria. He is to be loved by millions. Obama is loved by millions. Right now, he is still human and is still playing the human roll, making people believe he is compassionate, working only for the people, etc. Sometime during this next 4 years, someone will attempt an assassination on him. He will then die, be resussitated and then be in a coma for 3 days. You know the rest of the story…..
  
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- ConstitunalAmerican
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 3:50pm
  The artist states: “We should celebrate the fact that we live in a country where we are given the freedom to express ourselves,” he said.
  Unfortunately, its a freedom and expression that only those on the left give to themselves. Everyone else is racist.
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:44pm
  @bonniec3…I went to your site and took a look at your painting. I’ll be interested in seeing what it looks like when it’s complete. Right now it looks far too much like some of the stuff I see painted onto velvet that is being sold at flea markets in southern California…sorry.
  
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- Kenai
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:03am
  If obama really cared for the poor he would teach them trades and give them jobs…Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day but teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
  But instead he would rather keep them on the plantation.
  
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- wealthylady
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:42am
  Add your comments
  
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- cimiron
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 3:36pm
  that seems to be it doesn’t it, they can do anything they want and no one does a thing about it, altho Glen put a bobble doll of him in fake pee and they all went ballistic
  
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- tikner57
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 8:20pm
  We do respect the fact that you have the right to display your (Art) . The problem with the libreal media is that when it is their rights that are questioned they fight through heven and hell (pun intended) to protect them. But when I want to display my art, say the declaration of independence, you all start to cry and complain, oh that offendes me. It seems to me that the liberials are so afraid of the church because if you look back all throughout history, libreals come and go, but Jesus lives forever. And no matter what you pretend Obama to be; Christ he ain’t.
  
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thibx
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:26pm
God will call you to repent many times before you die. you can tell him no. God wants no one to go to hell the person sends themself and He will let them. be careful dude He only ask a number of times. you might have had your last number.

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- db321
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 7:12pm
  Thibx – I missed the number or warnings in the Bible.
  
  God said that everyone will have a chance to except of reject Christ. Didn’t give a count.
  
  God does not give anyone a break when they Mock him. God turn King Neberkenezer into an human Ox for Mocking him. For 7 years, he ate hay on the side of the road.
  
  This is shameful. Sad day in America.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:15pm
  DB321….No bro this, although it is a shameful display, is perfect!!! I stopped questioning the Lord’s providence a long time ago.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:05am
  Acts 12:21-23:
  
  21 So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. 22 And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a man!” 23 Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.
  
  God will not be mocked. Of course, if Obama is the Antichrist (aka the Beast of Revelation), then he would suffer a massive head wound that should kill him, yet he will live). Jesus would still take care of him in the end.
  
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- Trail_Jumper
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:48am
  Nice one Brooke. I was going to post the exact same thing. People should be careful when others try and deify you. It’s not a good thing.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:25pm
Boy I would hate to be him when his time comes, as the one and only is going to make his eternity miserable, as it should be.

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- searcher619
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:01am
  I would love to see the reaction of the faithful when their time comes. I am 99% sure you guys are in for a surprise and possibly a disappointment as well. It’s funny to me how so many feel they know what is waiting us all after we die. The only ones who know are the dead and they aren’t talking.
  
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jman-6
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:24pm
Guys as ridiculous as this painting is remember this, Freedom of Speech is not for speech you agree
with it’s explicitly for speech we don’t agree with. As a preacher my problem lies with the Public College Campus that this abomination is allowed to be displayed on all the while were not allowed a Nativity scene or the likes! GOD is not mocked and will recompense the offender(s) in due time, I just pray
they wake up before it’s too late!

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:49am
  Freedom of speech protects you from government reprisal of your speech and even that has some limitations (inciting a riot). It does NOT protect you from the consequences of your speech. Plus, the Almighty God he is blaspheming probably doesn’t care much about what this “artist” believes his rights are.
  
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- goahead.makemyday
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:25pm
  It also doesn’t protect you from the consequences of saying “FIRE!” in a theater and causing a stampede or “BOMB!” on a plane and causing panic. Or shouting “REPUBLICAN!” at a extreme left wing rally and causing some one to be killed. Or “DEMOCRAT!” at a tea party rally and getting ….. wait nothing will happen in case.
  
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mullet
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:22pm
“The crucifixion of the president was meant metaphorically…My intent was not to compare him to Jesus,” he added.

Ah…maybe he doesn’t understand metaphor: Def. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles”.

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GuruMeditation
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:20pm
Hey Mikey! Your First Amendment rights do override someone’s hurt feelings, but you’re no less a moron for doing such things. This will be between you and God only and I assure you, He will have the last laugh.

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BlackCrow
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:19pm
Why not? They are already praising their Lord and Savior Obama.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:35pm
  I think one can blame this on low IQ.
  
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paperpushermj
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:17pm
“The crucifixion of the president was meant metaphorically…My intent was not to compare him to Jesus,” he added.
_________________________________.
IT JUST TURNED OUT THAT WAY !

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- jst1425
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 5:13am
  God knows everything under the heavens. For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens (Job 28:24)
  
  The LORD knows our thoughts, that they are but an empty breath (Psalm 94:11)
  
  He knows what was ment by this painting….rest assured….!
  
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rickc34
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:17pm
If he worships Obama as his god then why aren’t the atheist up in arms. Oh that’s right Obama has now power like Jesus Christ. They only go after the real thing.

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Zipit
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:16pm
I believe that I should have the right to express myself with some paintballs!

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benrush
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:14pm
WOW how creative is that?

Jaw-droppingly creative!

His parents must be so proud.

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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:13pm
Following The Choom Gang´s logic, now you can choose a foreign Embassy on American soil and burn it down to the ground!

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:13pm
“First of all, give an honor to our God and our lord and savior, Barack Obama. Barack Obama.” Jamie Foxx

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Chromo200
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:13pm
How come the Atheists are not objecting to this. How come the UN and CAIR is not objecting to the making fun of a religion. Maybe Christians should riot and burn the college down .. But then we will not be Christians.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:20pm
  Yes we would.
  
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- DeathRattle
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:27pm
  Satan knows this, that we will not turn into islamic monsters and kill because someone has defiled Jesus’ sacrifice for us, that is why this kind of crap continues and will exist until God has had enough. Only then will these losers answer for their actions.
  
  I have to hand it to God for loving these people when they turn my stomach and make it so damn difficult to be civil towards them. That being said after I have had time to reflect and cool off. I will pray for them.
  
  The fact I am a Christian first, doesn’t change the fact I am human, I am not perfect, I am forgiven.
  
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- theotherberean
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 7:21pm
  Good point. Atheists should be up in arms.
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 7:54pm
  Christians make threats, muslims act. Thats about the only difference I see between these 2 planet destroying cults
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:18pm
  SURVIVORSEED……Then you are not looking very closely.
  
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- rederthanyou
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:18pm
  Jesus wasn’t a push over. He came a laid His life down voluntarily.
  
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SDAJumpmaster
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:13pm
Anti-Christ does not mean the opposite of Christ. The Greek Anti means to stand in the place of or usurp.

Yup.

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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:20pm
  Exactly in Greek…..In Latin the word is “Vicar” of Christ(the pope)….means the same thing.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:22pm
  It means both.
  
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GlennaBeckski
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:13pm
This is so insulting, denigrating and blasphemous I can hardly type!

To call it “Truth” is an equal abomination.

Get your fire retardant jammies ready Michael~You’ll be burning for a LONG LONG TIME.

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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:22pm
  Yes, definitely Blasphemy….going to have to have thick skin…..its not time, yet.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:12pm
Hussein looks like he’s related to the dude on the front of MAD Magazine.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:07pm
Just more BS to indoctrinate more simpletons.

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denkat56
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:07pm
God will not be mocked. Vengeance is his.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:11pm
  You know it!
  
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- DeathRattle
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:17pm
  Lets see him do a picture of Obama as mohammed then say the same thing about how great a country we live in.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:21pm
  The Lord laughs in derision already.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:30pm
  What is incredulous to me is that 0bama does nothing to denounce the blasphemy. I know he’s narcissistic but allowing himself to be considered Christ-like or the messiah is frightening.
  
  Be ever watchful.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:37pm
  @copatriots: If President Hussein was truly Christian he would take extreme issue with this portrayal of himself.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:58pm
  Agreed GURU. But this is frightening behavior even for a non- Christian. I can’t conceive the acceptance of the 51%ers to WANT 0bama to be their savior. I wonder what they think he us saving them from…..
  
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SoNick
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:07pm
Weird. Blazers applaud the “courage” of third rate artist Joe McNaughton (he of Obamanation fame) but somehow Michael D’Antuono’s work is offensive? I don’t get it…

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- termyt
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:11pm
  Weird. Third rate poster Sonick doesn’t understand how sacrilegious expressions might offend the religions. I don’t get it…
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:17pm
  No sonick that would be beyond your understanding.
  
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- BlackCrow
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:25pm
  Because of making the comparison of Obama to Jesus is blasphemous to many Christians. The art of Joe McNaughton is only blasphemous to the idiots who worship Obama. Myself I just believe it is the work of an idiot.
  
  10 out of 10 idiots support Obama
  
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- encinom
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:34pm
  Beckerheads have no concept of the First Amendment and if they could would act more like the Taleban.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:41pm
  Encinom you showed up!!! clean up before you leave.
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:43pm
  hey termyt, are you ok with burning the Qur’an? If you are (and it’s certainly your right), then you are a hypocrite. And is “not being offended” a right that was enshrined in the Constitution? Just wondering…
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:53pm
  @Max Jones: would you care to explain why Joe McNaughton is more relevant than this guy? Both appear to be inconsequantial artists gained minor fame from injecting political discourse in their works. Go one, clobber me with your intellect. Unless, if I judge from your other posts, you would just rather hit me in the face?
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 8:23pm
  Sonick…..no, I would fight you fairly…I like to fight. I enjoy it still, at 62 yrs. But, I stand by my statement, you can’t understand.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 10:31pm
  @ENCINOM
  
  Since when did you libs ever give a rats a$$ about free speech, when it concerns your nutty ideas and nonsense? Here some free speech: “Screw u and the horse you rode in on!” Just exercising my free speech.
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:42am
  I could lay a turd and appreciate its meaning more than this nonsense. To in any way try to suggest that BO is in any way similar to Jesus is just asinine. It’s LAME in every way.
  
  Here’s some real artwork that can universally be appreciated for it expresses truths that we can all identify with:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdsmuElafSY&feature=fvwrel
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:50am
  Sonik, you won’t get my with your head up your ass. When you finally decide to take it out, don’t forget to shake the sh#t from between your ears.
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:57am
  McNaughton’s work, besides being truly beautiful, expresses truths known and held dear to many of us here. This guys stuff expresses that which we here recognize as lies or antagonists to the truth. We here seek and appreciate truth whereas apparently this guy values confusion and denial. Thus his work is deemed offensive whereas McNaughton’s is damn beautiful! Of course it is beautiful, on the whole, that even the most ignorant are free to express their beliefs.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:39am
  @encinom” What do you mean “if we could”? We could whenever we wish. There is nothing stopping us other than our own morals and virtue. But I warn you with caution… we are human too and saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:22am
  MAX . . . I’ll use you as the representative of all the mindless hypocrites posting on this thread. Why? Because you’re the lamest of them all. You like art when you like it. Condemn it when you don’t. You like insults when you make them, hate them when you don’t. You like free speech when you’re talking, hate it when somebody else talks. And you wrap the whole stinky mess up in thinly veiled threats of violence that carry no more weight than does your opinion on the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics’ Double Slit Experiment.
  
  A schmuck, a fool, a blowhard, nothing more.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:43am
  OK, I’ll try to make this simple for you, Sonick. I will use small words, so try to keep up.
  
  The First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression free of government interference. It does not force anyone else to agree with the expression. You are claiming that because a group of people connect better with one artist’s works and dislike another’s they are some how hypocrites.
  
  So if someone loves Mozart but finds Britney Spears nauseating, they are hypocrites as well? Do you buy all DVD’s on the shelf so that you can have the movies you enjoy without disparaging the rest?
  
  Have I ever burned a Koran? Have I stated that D’Antuono should be, in any way, sanctioned, imprisoned, or silenced? You are a child kicking and swinging wildly at all you presume opposes you without even trying to understand the opposite point of view. You have no understanding of defending anyone’s rights but your own.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 10:25am
  GuruMeditation
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:39am
  @encinom” What do you mean “if we could”? We could whenever we wish. There is nothing stopping us other than our own morals and virtue. But I warn you with caution… we are human too and saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  I always knew Beckerheads hated the Constitutional Republic and would replace it with a Taleban styled Theocracy.
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Termyt, please spare me your condescending tone. You have some nerve, telling me that I am “a child kicking and swinging wildly at all you presume opposes you without even trying to understand the opposite point of view. You have no understanding of defending anyone’s rights but your own”, as that little sentence applies to you too!
  
  let me make myself clear. I think it’s fair to say that most of the regulars here on the Blaze would consider themselves staunch constitutionalists. Whenever someone suggests that burning the Qu’ran or making ridiculous anti-Islam movies is just stupid provocation, you all come out swinging, brandishing the First Amendment and proclaiming that dissent is a God given right. And I agree with y’all (except for th god part). I am just fascinated to see people defending freedom of thought and expression turn around to denounce anything that doesn’t fit their worldview. In this particular case, a lot of posters have assumed that the work was anti-Christian and have used the artist’s purported bias to dismiss his work outright. Even if the artist was anti-Christian, he should be able to express his ideas in any way he sees fit. That’s what art is. That being said, I think that Obama picture is crappy art, on par with Joe McNaughton’s equally crappy stuff.
  
  but what do I know? You’ve already decided I’m just a petulant child who doesn’t play well with others.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:41pm
  So, when you belittle people and call them hypocrites and third rate, it’s OK, but when someone else belittles you and calls you third rate, it’s not? That was your definition of hypocrisy, not mine.
  
  However, belief in the First Amendment means that someone has the right to speech without fear of government reprisal. It does not mean that everyone has to agree it is good, legitimate speech. If I say the sky is yellow when it is blue, then I am wrong. I should not be imprisoned or taxed for that opinion, but folks are perfectly justified to dismiss what I said out-of-hand.
  
  Supporting the First Amendment just simply does not, can not mean that you must support every use of it. If it does, you better recant your disbelief in God or you are invalidating others’ free speech.
  
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crueltiming
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:06pm
i wouldn’t have a problem with this crap if he was depicted crucified upside down—or is that racist?

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ZAP
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:06pm
Anti-christ

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- Bohump
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:24pm
  Would You belive, … “666″
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 3:06pm
  And on his other tiny little head is “.666″; the mark of the Millibeast….
  
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denkat56
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:05pm
God will not be mocked, his wrath will come down swiftly.

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- Small World
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:56pm
  I hope it’s soon .
  
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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:25pm
  Amen
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:52am
  you guys are batshit crazy.
  
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DeVain
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:02pm
Metaphorical my big butt!

He did it with the purpose of upsetting people so he could complain they were upset!

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- Schteveo
  Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:42am
  I support his right to paint this, I do not support his ‘right’ to show it where I pay the bills.
  
  And of course he did it to get a reaction, I studied art, art is about reaction. His art works then, doesn’t it? Listen, I’m a Christian, and I think this borders on blasphemy. But I didn’t paint it, so I am not the one who will have to explain it to the REAL guy who was crucified!
  
  But along with being a Christian, I’m a veteran, and one of the things I strongly believe in is the 1st Amendment.
  
  If this guy wants to draw or paint or make spit ball art of Obama doing anything, he has that right. I sometimes worry about Christian outrage in America starting to look or sound like Sharia Law! If we swear out a verbal fatwah, that this guy should be stopped and his art taken down or burned, how is that different than Muslims hunting down cartoonists who draw Mohammed with a bomb turbine? This artist has the right to paint this in America folks.
  
  But do we as tax payers have to see it hung in a university where WE help pay part of the bills? I think not. On that topic alone, these things should not happen. PC politics should mean that any paintings like this that touch on anyone’s religion or that angers religious groups, should be banned from, or at least removed from the university grounds for a showing.
  
  I’m not holding my breath for the university to do the right thing. So all we Christians can really do, is call your state reps and call the university
  
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randy
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 5:59pm
Just disgusting….. makes me want to vomit!

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- Max jones
  Posted on November 26, 2012 at 6:23pm
  Makes me wanna fight!!!
  
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