Obama Effigy Found Hanging from University of Kentucky Tree

When you hear “bigot” and “fear monger” and you feel like the attack is on you—this is a tactic to attack you just for being a Republican. It is no wonder that people don'y buy the "black" issues anymore. You know Democrats are with the party that supports the killing of babies that considers a baby a “burden.” They are in the party that makes references to Obama and Jesus in the same sentence. They are in the party that supports a candidate that said “typical white person” or stupid things like “I grew up around a healthy skepticism for organized religion and as a result so do I [have a healthy skepticism toward organized religion]” or who opposes things such as health savings accounts and school choice as he says they are like “social Darwinism.” All in favor of a government that will take care of everything for you. The Democrats are supporting a candidate who thinks a $3000 incentive to corporations will keep jobs in America—now that must be another Prank. Democrats listen, by the way, you must have heard your friendly candidate use the word fair. Just remember, I warned you when a politician says something is “fair” that is the clue he wants more money from you. Don’t throw you vote away get to know your candidate. Don’t fly on emotions—leave that for your wonderful Blogs. This race is not about race it is about freedom for all--freedom from Obama's pursuit to complete social engineering and change the government. And he is starting with the constitution by making it into a "living document." And he is planning changes and the Judicial would be changed to something altogether different..NOW THAT IS MORE SCARY THAN A STUFFED TOY BURNING IN EFFIGY! Does it not scare you that Obama has said that the “constitution is a flawed document…” And he was pointing out in the same breath that the judicial branch, the supreme court, was a “negative [agent].” He said essentially that he believed it should be able to do more than tell people what they can’t do. He more than allured to reparations! He wants to get rid of 401k’s, IRA’s and school choice. he calls these wonderful instruments “social Darwinism” So, lets continue with the truth for those of you who obviously don’t know your candidate: support the constitution:

Funny thing
People can hang a likeness of palin.They can Make the president look like a monkey. But!!! Obama is treated like roylty. I guess people still have not grown up or past the slavery issue in this county.Do you relize that the laws that was ment to help American African's are used now by ALLLL African's that have immigrated since the 50S.Show me One just One other country that has special privlege laws that are for anorther people from just one country? Funny thing Obama Is no way in any form Associated to the struggles of African American people of this country. Well really not even the ones that have come to this country 45 years ago since the 50s-60s. So when do we grow up and quite useing this as MIND CONTROL?

JV

I am not sure why people do this. I was really mad when i saw Palin's effigy hanging not this... It is sick.

United we stand

Stop the hate

O/B 08

Yes, I misspelled "intellectual". Sorry, did not proof, was in a hurry! So I guess this just gives all you "nice" people who did not know Kentucky had any universities more fuel! At least I admit it when I make a mistake.

I lived in Lexington and attended the University of Kentucky and have to say that at that time Lexington was a wonderful, progressive (liberal) city. We had excellent public parks in all the neighborhoods, many miles of roads with bike lanes, lots of small businesses, excellent public schools, very little crime and a wonderful sense of community.

However in the last ten years Lexington has changed dramatically due to the conservative movement there. Commercial development, big box business, and unchecked growth has destroyed much of the landscape, community and environment Lexingtonians used to value. Construction of mega churches and their "values" has taken over neighborhoods. Neighbors are divided by religion and politics and it just did not used to be that way. It seems that the sense of community, shared values, mutual respect and intellecutal pursuit has been abandoned and replaced by greed, mass consumerism, destruction of the environment and especially the catering to divisive religious groups in the area. I have been living in Northern Kentucky (extremely conservative) now for 10 years and I used to say that I would move back to Lexington in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, it seems that Lexington has been consumed and contaminated by the conservative movement as well. So please, do not judge all Kentuckians on this terrible incident. We are all not like these intolerant people. Do you remember when we all used to get along, cared about our fellow man and community and had "real" values, not the so-called "values" that the conversatives preach about?? Preaching and teaching hatred is just wrong! Well, that's my two cents.

Let it hang as long as Palin's is hanging. Good for University of Kentucky!

Carolyn & Blip,

You made your points very well, kudos to you and a VERY small number of other people on here who seem to have some common sense. As a resident of Kentucky for over 20 years,(also known to others as Klantucky), I must say that although this is disturbing, I am not surprised this has happened here. The ignorance displayed on this site has only confirmed why things like this still happen.
There is a HUGE difference between public and private, please get that. Yeah, I'm sure the Palin effigy is just swinging with pride, right Robert B? Give me a break. Palin is not hanging because the media is biased against her-- it's still hanging because it's on someone's PERSONAL property, and as sad as that is, they have the right to keep it there. So tell you what, go take a trip to Cali, go bang on their door, and tell them to take the damn thing down, then you can stop whining about how bias everything is. You know you have the right to do that...right? And has anyone bothered to mention Mike Lunsford in Ohio, since Palin is just "a swingin in the wind"? He has an Obama effigy hanging from the tree in his front lawn, and guess what? It's still hanging! Does that beat your double-standard???

I am ashamed to say I live in Ky but I want everyone to know this.....not everyone in Ky is as ignorant as the person responsible for doing this horrible crime. UK is located mostly in a heavily populated black neighborhood so that is what really surprised me by it being found at the university. I hope they find who did this and punish them to the fullest extent of the law. Obama is the only hope we all have for this nation to survive and the color of his skin matters not one bit to me, nor does it to others from Ky that also support him. I am not racist nor will I ever be. White people doing these horrible crimes, like the white supremist arrested yesterday, never need to see light of day ever again. I totally admire Obama for having the guts to even want to be president because of the mess our country is in. Palin needs to be sent back to Alaska and I have lost all the respect I once had for McCain because of all his dirty antics. May God bless Obama & keep him & his family safe from harm!!!!!

Robert, the Department of Justice just spent $33K taking employees to Hawaii to teach them how to lobby the Federal Government - when it isn't even legal for them to lobby for 1 year.

This election is about health care, the economy, restoring our country as real leaders and not just thugs, restoring some intelligence to our discourse, actually practicing what we preach in terms of terrorism, torture, and, yes, Christianity and all true religions - and it is about restoring our government agencies who have been filled with people who owe more allegiance to their party than to our country.

So, I don't believe for a second you were ever a Democrat - and if you were, I suspect the reasons you are for McCain. Obama is the only solution to the problems we have.

Palin doesn't have long enough to figure out what the heck is going on - she clearly has no idea of the world, science, and other matters critically important to the safety and future of our country.

So stop with the holier-than-thou stuff. That dog won't hunt, thank God. Change is coming and you will look back 4 years from now and be glad your vote didn't count.

Keep that stiff upper lip, Mom

The fact everyone is making a big deal out of this shows that the "racist" element exists on BOTH sides of the issue. Liberal thinkers seem to want to suppress freedom of expression because it does not agree with their politics for whatever reason is deemed appropriate at the time (ie. historical, geopolitical, racial) Those Californians had no compunction about expressing THEIR public distaste. Why should anyone disagree with those in Kentucky?

In fact the entire "hate crime" issue is a bunch of baloney. A crime is a crime. Whether it is motivated by hate, greed, lust, power etc, it is still a crime. Or are as Orwell might say, "some animals are more equal than others"?

gjkotw01, isn't it also shameful that California is home to ugly misogyny? And hasn't California, home to Hollywood, Always been that way? Yes it has.

It is pathetic and shameful that the state of Kentucky, which was the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln is in this day and age is also where the ugly signs of racism are surfacing both in the primary and now in the general election.

Effigys are a cowards way out

Pardon me - I addressed my post to the wrong person - I was answering hamishdad.

Yes, Tina, there are a number of fine universities in Kentucky. We are not the backwoods barefoot hillbillies you seem to think we are.

The people of this state and the Univ. of Kentucky are just as appalled by the hanging of anyone's effigy as the rest of the country is. If caught, the people who did this will face the consequences.

>When this story is picked up by foreign press, is this the image of America we want others to see? This is not who we are.

I travel quite a bit, and I hate to disappoint you, but the world thinks that most Americans are like President Bush.

I'll let you figure out what that means.

This has gone too far. It was shameful when the Palin effigy was hung in Calif. and these Obama effigies are shameful also. People get a grip! When this story is picked up by foreign press, is this the image of America we want others to see? This is not who we are.

Daniel T.- First off most of those on the right might not watch FOX news, I am in the center but have had all I can take of the way the ABC, NBC, CNN and CBS has been in bed with the obama. They have not ask him any hard questions and the easy ones they have ask he don't answer but we do know he can tap dance really good. Now if you will look at which new center employees give to which party you might be very surprised that $0 went to the Republican party from FOX news Employee's I think around $5,000 to $10,000 was donated to the Democrat party by Fox news employees but none to the Rep. party. So if it is so far right why would they even give a dime to the Democrats let alone giving only to that party. Most Congress and Senators will tell you as has been reported in a number of papers that FOX is the most balanced. So your little statements really don't carry water kinda like obamas weath spreading around is not solicialist.

Although I disagree with it, the person who hung the Palin effigy at least had the guts to do it out in the open, from his own home.

tina- Of course it wasn't the Plain one is still hanging obama's was taken down for criminal investiagtion. Sad what the democrat party has come to. Maybe those of us in the middle need to start a new party that still believes in the good of the people of the US, the freedoms we have always had, and the opportinituity we have had.