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Billboard Stirs Controversy

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- Call it Freedom of Speech. A billboard recently erected in Wheat Ridge compares Barack Obama to a terrorist and questions his citizenship status.

The billboard, located at 4855 Miller Road, shows two cartoonish images of Obama wearing a Muslim turban and reads "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?"

It also says "BIRTH CERTIFICATE -- PROVE IT!" alluding to the questions surrounding his birth that would disqualify him for the office of President.

The words "WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!" appear on the bottom of the billboard.

"Since Fort Hood, I've had it," car dealer Phil West told FOX 31 News Friday. "You can't suggest things. You can't profile. You gotta call a spade a spade."

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the sign, as did progressive radio host David Sirota (AM760), who discussed the sign and interviewed West on his program Friday morning.

"It's out of control," Sirota said. "This conservative hatred of Barack Obama is out of control, and this brings together all those strands of it: the racism, the anti-Muslim fervor. It's one thing to criticize the president on health care, or Wall Street reform, or immigration. But this is outrageous. And I think it's a fair question to ask why these questions about religion and ancestry are being directed so viciously at the first African-American President of the United States."

While the ADL issued a statement calling the billboard an exploitation of the Ft. Hood shootings that is "divisive and offensive, and perpetuates hateful and harmful stereotypes about Muslims," prominent conservatives have been silent thus far.

"That could suggest that conservative leaders are afraid to confront the extreme fringe of their base," Sirota said. "Or it suggests they actually condone this message. Either way, it's disturbing."

"I can't honestly say he's a Jihadist, but there's a lot of things that are questionable," Walters said. "The whole birth certificate controversy. From what I've read, there's no proof Obama isn't a Muslim. And I don't believe there's any racism [in the billboard]. I think that should be a question asked to any president who -- they have some questionable backgrounds."

Supporters of the birth certificate theory, known as Birthers, have demonstrated the Certification of Live Birth produced by the state of Hawaii is counterfeit.

Sirota and the ADL have such short memories. They are outraged that Americans have reasonable questions about Obama's eligibility and mysterious background, but ignore this stuff.

Sirota contends "that conservative leaders are afraid to confront the extreme fringe of their base" -- I have a flash for Sirota, as more and more people come to understand Obama's far-left agenda and mysterious background, they question his eligibility. The "fringe" is now composed of a huge segment of the American population -- and it is growing.

An October 23rd item reported that three-in-ten Americans think their current head of state was not born in the United States, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. That's almost a third of all Americans.

Now, Goddard's Political Wire points to a new Public Policy Polling survey in Arkansas shows that only 45% of voters in the state say they believe Obama was born in this country, while 31% say they think he was not and 24% are unsure.

"Arkansas is the first of four states where we've polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado were the others) and found less than half of respondents confident that Obama is a natural born citizen. The numbers are particularly dramatic among Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not born here to just 23% who grant that he was."

And it's Obama's own actions that have caused many Americans to have these questions. FReeper TigersEye lists just a few:

• Trying to curb criticism of Nidal Malik Hasan (mmmm mmmm mmmm)
• Staunchly refusing to call the Ft. Hood massacre a terrorist act
• Scheduling a civilian trial of KSM in NYC
• The "reach around for a Muslim" Cairo speech
• Bowing to a Saudi King
• Millions of dollars to Hamas so they can pay big bucks for kidnapping Israeli soldiers
• Ordering the Israelis to stop building settlements
• Inability to make a decision on Afghanistan
• Closing GITMO
• Moving terrorists to Illinois
• Calling the U.S. a "Muslim country" while in Europe
• Hiring several devout Muslims with ties to radical Muslims for security posts
• Establishing back channel ties with the Taliban

What Nationality Is Barack Obama?

Fort Liberty blog says One of the biggest issues Obama has had to deal with isn’t some foreign policy problem. Nor is it the health care debate. Nor is it the huge debt. While these are all issues that need to be dealt with, they aren’t the biggest ones. Much to the anger of many people, the biggest issue that Obama has to deal with is whether he is an American citizen. In other words, people want to know whether he is actually eligible to be the President of the United States. This is a debate that has infuriated people on both sides -- some think it’s stupid, others think it’s true.

But, this isn’t an article on how his birth certificate might be real or might be fake. There are millions of those already on the Internet. This is an article that touches on the poor public relations Obama and his team have done when trying to deal with the situation. In other words, they have created a public relations disaster rather than create an opportunity. And, this is an article that sums up that the question of what nationality Obama might be is impossible to answer.

In public relations, when something bad happens to a company, you can react in two ways. Go head on into it, accept blame and get the job done or you can try and skirt around the issue and try to save time and money. The latter never seems to work because someone always demands some sort of an explanation. Obama, much to my own curiosity, has decided to try and skirt the issue and spend millions of dollars to prevent people from seeing his hidden information.

He has created this mess for himself. The first mess is with the birth certificate which he has refused to show people. Yeah, he showed the copy, but what about the original? He has refused to show it. Why? Then his school records. Why won’t he release them? If he released them, it would show he was born in America. Yet, he refuses to release them. Finally, his financial aid records. He refuses to release them. Why? Every time something comes up, he says no.

But, this has created another problem on top of the horrible public relations side of things. Try determining what nationality Obama is. He was born in Hawaii according to the birth certificate he showed in 2007 and the newspaper clipping says he was born in Hawaii. But, then he went to Kenya after birth. Or was it before birth? Then he went to an Indonesian grammar school as a "Muslim." Then he went back to America and went to some very rich colleges.

What nationality is he? He could be America; he could be Kenyan; he could be Indonesian. He could be, he could be, he could be. And instead of just stopping all of the discussion and just demonstrating that he is, in fact, an American citizen, he has made it a question that is impossible to answer. By creating this mess, Obama has effectively, whether directly or indirectly, created a monster.

Obama is going to deal with a lot of issues in the next two years and, if re-elected, his four years after that. But, if he doesn’t get rid of this issue now with a simple release of the documents -- would be nice Mr. Transparency -- then he will continue to deal with this until he leaves office in 2012 or 2016.

Rather than continue dealing with this very stupid situation, just release the documents and let’s get on our way. You brought this problem upon yourself and now it’s time to finish it so that the Birthers can figure out something else to hate you for. One issue at a time; let’s finish this one up.

Again, the writer confuses the issue as one of citizenship/nationality, when it's one of eligibility. Obama could have been born in the Rotunda of the Capital. He would still be ineligible because his father was a citizen of Kenya and a British subject -- as was Obama.