Bradshaw's Blog

This is just in very bad taste. A group of right-wingers have put up a billboard sign in Colorado depicting President Barack Obama as a Mexican bandito, a gay man, and as an Islamic suicide bomber. You can almost feel the idiots who put this sign up rubbing their hands in glee about the publicity they are getting for this. Nothing says class like using racism as a political tool. It's bad enough that they think this is a good idea, but they are also entirely gutless because they won't reveal who actually paid for the sign. The owner of the billboard, the "artist" and others involved won't say who funded it. Once again - gutless. It is one thing to make a political statement, but the omission of who made the statement further undermines those who made the statement. Apparently to these "privately funded" groups, showing Obama as a Muslim, which to these people equates terrorist, Mexican, meaning an illegal immigrant, and gay which is somehow autom...

Thank you John Green. And I agree, can we move on people? If you've watched the video you have seen as John Green of the vlogbrothers hopefully puts to rest the arguement being put forward by many ardent rightwing types that somehow Barack Obama is a muslim. It goes hand in hand with that other red herring floated by Obama's opponents that he wasn't born in the U.S. It's all a bunch of political claptrap designed to distract voters from the real issues and paint the president in a negative light. As shown, Obama does not follow even the basic tenents of the muslim faith but somehow by continuously bringing up this stupid arguement again and again, the media has convinced 20 per cent of Americans that Obama is a follower of Mohammed. I'm not saying that a portion of the American public are dullards who are easily swayed when politicians prey on their emotional responses to the crap they are being spoon fed. Obviously there are intelligent people and political sa...