Overly Sensitive Or "The Right Thing" (SS Obama Catnip Related)
Rockadelic
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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/Obama-Effigy-Replaced-by-Hillary-and-Bush-100525504.html
Operators of a Jersey Shore boardwalk game have removed a mannequin representing President Barack Obama.
It has been replaced by effigies of former President George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton.
"It???s just to show we???re not anti-Democrat or anti-Republican," Tommy Whalen told The Star-Ledger. He's the manager of Lucky Leo???s where the "Walkin Charlie" game debuted this summer.
The game requires patrons to throw baseballs at plates held by the rotating caricatures.
A plastic bag -- pink -- was placed over the Obama character's head after some people earlier this week said it was disrespectful to use the president's likeness.
Operators of a Jersey Shore boardwalk game have removed a mannequin representing President Barack Obama.
It has been replaced by effigies of former President George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton.
"It???s just to show we???re not anti-Democrat or anti-Republican," Tommy Whalen told The Star-Ledger. He's the manager of Lucky Leo???s where the "Walkin Charlie" game debuted this summer.
The game requires patrons to throw baseballs at plates held by the rotating caricatures.
A plastic bag -- pink -- was placed over the Obama character's head after some people earlier this week said it was disrespectful to use the president's likeness.
Comments
Yes -- certain it was his likeness which people found offensive.
holy shit.
Yeah, some "likeness." Yikes.
And that "watermelons on the White House lawn" email has been going around again.
AND AS A SOLDIER OF ELEMENTAL HIPHOP I AM MOST OFFENDED BY THE GRAFFITI