Did You See the Sign That Greeted Obama in Iowa on Saturday?
- Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:18pm by
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Image source: ABC reporter Twitter user @devindwyer)
President Barack Obama was greeted with a less-than-friendly welcome sign at the airport in Sioux City, Iowa on Saturday that read: “Obama Welcome to SUX — and We Did Build This.”
The words “welcome to” were written in much smaller lettering, however, implying a different sort of message. “SUX” is also the code for Sioux Gateway Airport where Obama landed.
“We did build this” is of course a riff on Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment to business owners that Republicans have seized on.
ABC News reported the hand-painted sign was draped across the top of an airplane hangar near where Air Force One touched down. Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told ABC the banner could not be seen from the presidential motorcade.





















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blazingaway
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:48pmmaybe IOWA (Idiots Out Waling Around) could be changing to intellects out walking around ….
Report Post »We’ll see how the state votes in 2016 …. most likely it will remain idiots
grayling646
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:43pmSince ‘72 (including ‘72) the good folks of Iowa are 5 for 5. If you’re talking about last election a lot of people all across the country were fooled. I’ll bet you a cold beer Iowa goes red this time.
Report Post »joey g
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:46pmwhats the problem …obozo can’t take a honest statement?
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:46pmThe blaze was slow to report this one ?. I saw that this morning on the yahoo web page.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:10pmBut…but…don’t you understand?! His POSITION is taken!!! HE thinks he’s PRESIDENT for LIFE !!!
Report Post »They can’t possibly mean him… ….. ….. can they?
Val_Dragon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:46pmIf Obama controls healthcare in an aging society then he effectively control its death rate. If he controls the death rate then he can effectively control the amount of revenue collected as a result of the death tax (the federal estate tax). This is a tax that is assessed on the value of all of your assets upon your death including your house, cars, furniture, business property, machinery and inventory, stocks, bonds and real estate. This is a big part of his hidden agenda. This is the pot of gold Obama is after.
Report Post »In 2013, the exemption drops from $5 million to $1 million. Under an Obama 2nd term that exemption will fall much further and the death tax rate will climb enormously. This is how he is going to “spread the wealth around”.
Miami
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:53pmPriceless
The public speaks
Report Post »cosette
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:54pmNo
Report Post »thatsafact
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:28pmHe sent the secret service to visit a man in Victoria, Texas for a sign he put up about praying for Obama out of the book of Psalms. This president thinks he is King and we are to grovel over him. Who in their right mind could think of voting for him. Pathetic!.The only followers he has now are the young he has following him like the pied piper against what is even best for them
Report Post »ChildOfTheKing
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:40pm@nobull14: Not all of us read Yahoo….just theblaze.com.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:03pmAll hail, Caesar!
And I used to think Nixon was bad abt being 1) a megalomaniac and 2) being regal. Nixon can’t hold a candle to this guy. Furthermore, at least Nixon had some foreign policy achievements while this bubba’s got bupkiss!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:06pmHow utterly racist that was, everyone knows SUX is a racial code word, they might as well called him the N word. Oh, I feel so dirty just reading that, combining SUX and build, holy cow, bring out the lynch mob. Next they will use “Kitchen Cabinet”.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:30pmDid you see the ‘sign’ that greeted Obama in Colorado? pic.twitter.com/0E4L1h3K
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:51pm@TIFOSA
Report Post »Did you see the ‘sign’ that greeted Obama in Colorado?
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Stupid Students Never Learn?
TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:06pm@NoBull14 The only report on Yahoo about the Republican convention was Clint Eastwood or at least what I saw. Fox News, the radio but by far the Blaze puts out so many stories one can hardly keep up.
Report Post »This one no biggie but fun. Imagine this headline on the Blaze: President Romney on a tangent firing people and one and a two and a shall we dance? Millions of citizens dancing in the streets.
TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:13pm@Tifosa I saw the one with the little girl. Wasn’t that Colorado? This person (me) doesn‘t like using children that way but I’m a thinkin those folks don’t like him—-a lot.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:25pmI think it’s hilarious the Blaze is reporting on this. How many “Romney sucks” signs have I seen first hand in my life? None of them make it onto the big screen.
The Blaze must really be stretching. I can’t wait till November!
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:21pmThat’s a large part of whats wrong with America. We can’t handle the truth!
http://youtu.be/JRf30Uq_9lo
Report Post »the_founders_h8ted_conservatism
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:39pmits funny red-staters cant even spell correctly
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:45pmSioux City Iowa, your actions, behaviors are being duly noted. You are being watched. A local FEMA gulag will have cots available to your residents……..
Report Post »jzs
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:58pmI guess this is a slow news day. “Obama SUX” – yeah that’s really cute. Did you notice the didn’t know how to actually spell the word correctly? They must have been typical Tea Party members who dropped out of grade school at age 15.
Oh by the way did you know that Catholic nuns are challenging Romney? Here ya go:
“Recent advertisements and statements from the campaign of Governor Romney demonize families in poverty and reflect woeful ignorance about the challenges faced by tens of millions of American families in these tough economic times,” Campbell said in a statement. “We are all God’s children and equal in God’s eyes. Efforts to divide us by class or score political points at the expense of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters reveal the worst side of our country’s politics.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/catholic-sisters-blast-romneys-woeful-ignorance-about-struggling-families/
Now who are ya gonna believe? The ignoramuses who are too stupid they can’t spell a four letter work or Catholic nuns?
WATER-THE-TREE
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:18amVAL he does not need health care to kill everyone, all of his agencies have millions of hollow point bullets and the like with which to kill us, and for those that get to live he has FEMA prisons galore to store them like the commodity that we are.
Report Post »Jacob Malachi
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:37am@ the Founders H8ted – The word is the the abbreviation for the the name of the airport. Like DWF is for Dallas- Ft. Worth. The sign says Obama – Welcome to SUX. No miss – spelling, just a pun. Get a life.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:18amHilarious!
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:44am@JZS LOL you make me laugh! Not with you but, at you. SUX is the abbreiation for the Souix City Airport. Oh gosh, you slay me! LOL. It‘s doubly funny since it’s true! LOL ohhhhh lol. Also, you and your OWS, Progressive, Communist, Marxist types, what the hell you call yourself, couldn’t hang a sign like that on a building because you need to own the building to do it. Bwahahahah lolololololololololololol. What a maroon!
Report Post »sparky239
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:15amnope!!! none of his ilk can handle the truth about his sorry regime…typical loser mentality..
Report Post »ONLY4UANDME
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:06pmpass it along… facebook
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw
cranberry
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:45pmWell at least it was all spelled right, unlike the ones flying behind planes recently….
Report Post »BHOHG2G
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:40pmI was taught in the military that you don’t have to respect the man… just the rank.
Report Post »bannedfromCNN
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:44pmI hear Soetoro is going to Capestrano next week – will the sign there state that he ‘swallows’?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:11pmBANNEDFROMCNN, Bwahahahahahahahaha…….bwahahahahahahahahaha! I almost spit chunks of sandwich onto the screen!
Report Post »pitboss
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:19pmI was also wondering if this sign is in reference to his performance while in office, or his days in the Chicago bathhouses.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:01pmMe too, BHO. My sign would’ve read, “With all due respect Sir, YOU SUCK!!!”. Well, if I were gonna say that to the President.
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:28pmObama saw that sign. He may have been shielded from it when he landed but the narcissist and chief reads every single thing written about himself so he saw this sign.
Report Post »ripley
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:26pmSo touching – just brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it?
Report Post »jeann
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:26pmpoor man child Obama……makes me cry too….
Report Post »allonline
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:32amHe is lucky the most insulting ward was SUX….
Report Post »Longhorns62
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:14pmThe truth hurts Barry.
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:33pmYou’d better be careful, threatening to hurt Barry that way. You may get a visit from the Secret Service. ;-)
Report Post »Randall R.Kniess
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:12pmWell the spokesman said it couldn‘t be seen by the Presidential motorcade’s location. That’s OK because the Blaze has seen it and shared it with the world. Good job from the editors at The Blaze!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:30pmMake certain to share it also !!!
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:08pmClever. But I doubt they built it all by themselves. Moreover, without the law and its enforcement to structure a reasonably predictable economy, they would have had no ability or reason, nor any profit, from building such a structure in the first place. The problem with asserting the supreme value of AN individual, is that it falls flat in the face of the supreme value of ALL individuals, without whom, each individual would experience a life, in the words of Hobbes, “solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.” The work and cooperation of others is what makes life worth living for the self. Without others, the individual human is little better off than an especially clever beast.
Report Post »raptor45
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:14pmYou’re probably right about that. Hope the dems understand that….but I kinda freakin’ doubt it.
Report Post »PALEHORSE
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:47pmThe individual did build it. The government just enlisted the help of the individual using the individual’s levied taxes to hire individuals to build the roads. Albeit many individuals. If not for taxes levied on the individual the government would not have the money to do anything. So yes the individual did build it.
Report Post »USA DJ
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:03pmHobbs promotes a totalitarian regime as in, Leviathan where he promotes a utopian structure that denegrates society as we know it. In other words, he thinks people are to ignorant to govern themselves because he was a socialist. Locke, however promotes a society that is governed by the consent of the people and preservation of our God given rights. As things stand today, we have lost control of our rights and empowered the government to control us. There must be laws in society but without the consent of the people and their representatives, there should be no going around the rules by any government officials. As far as the individual building their business, tax payers pay for the roads, the salaries of those who build them, the salaries of the EPA, the CIA, the FBI and so on. ithout us poor working class smucks they have nothing and it is denegrating to say the sweat, labor and money from their own pockets did not build their business.
Report Post »Moonrunner69
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:24pmThat thinking will not fly on judgment day when we meet our maker. I don‘t think it will be MR69 and a party of 5 and there is no collective when each and everyone of us have to answer to what we’ve done in our lives….just saying.
Report Post »getourcountryback
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:46pmThird nippple; how much kool aid DO you drink in a day?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:55pm@THE THIRD ARCHON
Without others, the individual human is little better off than an especially clever beast.
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Well, collectivized humankind is an especially miserable and stupid beast. You are erroneously conflating two distinct groups. Commies do not believe in citizen-centered progress, i.e., growth achieved through the joint effort of fellow countrymen, otherwise noted in the Constitution as WE THE PEOPLE (plural, dodo). Commies believe in collectivization. Collectivization is the dehumanization of the individual and his freedoms by a corrupt elite (the Obama machine) and their bureaucracy. Collectivization is NOT equal to We the People.
Read the Preamble, lamebrain. Maybe it’ll sink in:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
WE THE PEOPLE did build it. Don’t like it? Go to a commie country. There are plenty around you.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:00pmI’ll never look at Hobbes the tiger from Calvin and Hobbes the same ever again
Report Post »wildwood
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:52pmWe should have a big sign that reads SENIOR BE AWARE OF THE BIG BAD WOLF!!!
Report Post »IF OBAMA BUYS HIS WAY INTO ANOTHER TERM, SENIORS WILL NOT HAVE MEDICARE AT THE END OF HIS SECOND FAILED TERM, THEY WILL BE ON OBAMACARE. WHY DO YOU THINK HE TOOK BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OUT OF MEDICARE,, HE KNEW SENIORS WOULD NOT BE USING IT!!!
I don’t know why Mitt and Ryan are not telling seniors just what obama has in mind!!!
SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:06pmAlso cuts payments to nursing homes so Grandma and Grandpa will be forced to move back home or onto the streets.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:52pmYes…Obama does suck! He sux more than any president known to the US or any other nation. He sux more than people heretofore thought possible.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:23pmYou tell the truth, but the left wants to make truth telling racist now.
Report Post »weitbuck
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:50pmOkay, its true but not respectful of the office. Use your words people
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:03pmHe has lowered the office….it is now the outhouse.
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:04pmThe sign is directed at OBAMA not the Office of the President. Enough with the PC. Obama is a loser period and I call a loser a loser.
Report Post »raptor45
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:15pmI respect the man and then the office….not the other way around. But thanks for trying.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:11pm…
Report Post »Read the story. The sign actually says “Obama Welcome to SUX and We Did Build This.”
“SUX” is the code for Sioux Gateway Airport.
The greeting was very cleverly printed on the building to look as if it says “Obama Sux”.
I think they did an excellent job of getting their message across.
I do respect the office of the President, but not the traitor who occupies it.
Shasta
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:56pmI second that @Reconmarine
Report Post »Stelex
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:45pmHave you been paying attention. Respect the office???? The guy in the office loathes it, despises it, wants to funamentally transform it into a One World Order in the Chinese Model. Respect of anykind is earned not automatic. OBAMA has not EARNED my RESPECT.
Report Post »time4tea77
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:17amThe racist traitor Obongo Soetore or whatever name suits him this year has disgraced the office and he and his wife are deserving of NO respect.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:48pmMost of Barry’s college boyfriends knew that already. They have been locked away with his college transcripts and grades and composite girlfriends.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:53pmOFF TOPIC but we must get this out:
Report Post »http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/ron-pauls-soros-defense-plan/
It was recently observed that Ron Paul was to the left of Obama on national security and the best evidence for that statement can be found when one year ago Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank on a proposal to gut national defense via a panel of experts, quite a few of whom were tied to George Soros.
In July 2010, Barney Frank and Ron Paul co-authored a Huffington Post article rolling out their Sustainable Defense Task Force. The Task Force “consisting of experts on military expenditures that span the ideological spectrum” would recommend a trillion dollars in defense cuts. The experts, however, didn’t quite “span the ideological spectrum” — more like float under it.
forthepeople
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:54pmAmen : Where is the media on his early life ( coke & blow jobs literally ) , at first I said thats to much ( absurd ) to believe , now I’m no so sure ?
Report Post »raptor45
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:19pmNo kidding…. If only they would speak. I wonder what happened to that Chandoo love interest? Is he alive and able to chirp about our Boy Wonder??
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:46pmit should also read, you lied,you are a thief and you and your commie buddies days are numbered.
Report Post »clockn63
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:42pmI believe Obummer has done his undoing with that “charming” statement. His people can spin his words but they can’t do anything about his body language when making that statement. Truely a gift that keeps on giving!!!!!!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:41pmSomeone is going to be carted off.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:41pmNot only is that just too funny, but how would you like to live somewhere where your airport is referred to as SUX? Makes me think of LAXative. Having been there several times, that bubble shaped “X” building makes me laugh. It’s really tiny compared to the way they make it look on TV and the movies.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:40pmCOURAGE, Y’ALL!
II Chronicles 7:14
Remember the rain in Charlotte!
GOD IS HEARING US.
Report Post »thecrow2123
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:22pmAmen
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:35pmMaybe when he comes to Los Angeles, a tagger could paint that on AF-1 where he couldn’t miss it.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:43pmHi MONK, Sort of figured a lot of the posts on this one would screw around with LAX too. I know that I just did a moment ago. Good one.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:40pmWell if you are in a hurry a bottle of SUX-LAX will set you straight in 30 minutes (or less) guaranteed.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:31pm…
Report Post »Love it.
LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:43pm…
Report Post »Incredibly clever wording of this sign. Great job.
Buddynoel
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:30pmIn this case, Obama is correct. If it we’re for his help, that sign would not be possible.
Report Post »raptor45
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:18pmThat’s funny right there. Thanks for recognizing the irony of that idiot’s comments……
God Bless America….but not Obama.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:27pmGood, and after Romney is sworn in come January, we can show billboards of Obamas mugshots and him being led off to jail for treason.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:38pm@ SNOW
My PRAYER is for that to happen.
Report Post »This man CANNOT be allowed to lose and walk away.
It‘s UNBELIEVABLE that Treason Charges aren’t already underway.
kickagrandma
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:39pm@SNOW~ Standing with you!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:44pmi am with you.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:45pmEyes;
It is easy; think hairy read and eric (the blue) holder.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:11pmLOL–wishful thinking much? While its not INCONCEIVABLE that Romney might win, it IS highly improbable. Assuming no shifts in non-swing states, which is a reasonable and likely assumption, Romney not only MUST win Florida, but also EVERY OTHER swing state. Obama, on the other hand, can lose Florida, and, so long as he holds on to the states expected to vote in his favor, need only win ONE swing state to end Romney’s chances at the Presidency.
Report Post »christos
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:23pmsnow – 100% agree with you.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:25pmsuuuuure it was not seen by obama.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:25pmIT SHOULD HAVE SAID..
Never mind…I might get kicked off of the Blaze if I finish that statement.
BUT…YA’LL KNOW WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY, RIGHT?
Report Post »I need not say any more then. :)
MAULEMALL
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:32pmOnly for a day or two…
Report Post »Dom321
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:37pmObozo Sux Richard :)
Report Post »Angel_light
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:23pmI wonder if he will get the message…probably not
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:35pmYes, he will, and he’ll be elated. After all, what he and his ilk have done to this country is all going according to his grand scheme, which is to drag down the middle class and combine them with the lower (or, more aptly “low”) class; leaving the “chosen” elite and everybody else, serfs.
If I were part of the lower or middle class and I supported Obama, I‘d be highly offended that he would think so little of me that I didn’t have the “genetics” or “education” to be able to carve out a better life for myself – on my own. It’s really sad.
Report Post »thatsafact
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:34pmThere comes a time when we must serve God not man. If man is calling us to do things against our religious beliefs we serve God. I fear the Lord alot more than I fear Obama. Obama will have his day with the Lord and he will not like it. He is just being used right now to take as many along with him to the evil place he is headed.
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