Remember the good old days, when political protesters courageously stood out on street corners with signs, putting their bodies on the line and proudly identifying their group so others could join them? Well, why go to so much trouble when you can hire a lawyer to rent a billboard for you (at $1000 a month), keep your actual affiliation secret, and scream out in ugly red Helvetica font-
The billboard, rented by...?
Even better, once you do this, why not have the gall to have your lawyer claim that the billboard doesn’t really mean what it is screaming in that towering font: “The billboard is not meant to allege any impeachable offense has been committed; It is simply an expression of frustration by my client that politics in Washington should change to better support small businesses…” Oh, Please! “IMPEACH OBAMA” merely expresses “Change politics in Washington”? Doesn’t screaming “IMPEACH OBAMA” when you admit he has committed no impeachable offense merely perpetuate politics at its worst, whether in Washington or Oshkosh? If you really had problems with one of Obama’s small business policies, wouldn’t you get much more bang for your buck by citing that policy, and preceding that citation with a big red “Stop”?
Anyway, last time I checked, it was Congress that actually passed laws relating to small business. All Obama can do is make suggestions (and so far his suggestions haven’t made much headway in Congress). So why would the anonymous folks renting this billboard single out Obama? Hmmm… maybe it has something to do with the mentality of folks who like to hold signs with images like this:
[...] I posted recently about an “Impeach Obama” billboard that had sprouted up along Highway 41 outside Oshkosh, and wrote a letter to the editor that was basically an edited version of that post (minus the last paragraph and the racist image of Obama). Much to my surprise, the billboard has changed its tune- [...]