Anti-Obama billboard in Colorado taken down

[liberal N proud]

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A billboard in western Colorado that used caricatures to depict President Barack Obama as a terrorist, gangster, Mexican bandit and a gay man has been taken down.

The sign along an Interstate 70 business loop in Grand Junction drew criticism from local Republicans and Democrats.

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Downey said the owners of the billboard company, Bud’s Signs, removed it after receiving threats from people who didn’t care for it, the Daily Sentinel reported.

The artist, Paul Snover, of nearby Loma, has said he received what he calls "very hateful" e-mails and phone calls over the sign, which he said was designed to be an editorial cartoon.

Snover has said he couldn't reveal who paid for the billboard. The Daily Sentinel said he didn't return calls to explain why it was removed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39698327/ns/politics-decision_2010/

[young but wise]

1. Good.

Racist, homophobic bastards.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Yeah, he 'couldn't say'. Coward. It was him.

I'm sure the person that commissioned the sign, after paying for it, could care less who got the heat for it, unless it was...the same person.

[otohara]

3. The Guy Who Painted It Say's He'll Do More

has an ugly website - hates everything left.

[kentuck]

4. It drew "bi-partisan scorn"

http://www.gazette.com/articles/draws-106374-grand-junction.html

[Kdillard]

5. Good. K and r.

[lillypaddle]

6. That wasn't a "gansta" in the picture

It was a pimp, even more racist in my opinion. Glad it's taken down.